: Using AJAX on homepage to handle feeds, bad for SEO? I'm running multiple feeds of loops on my homepage much like youtube.com and I want to use AJAX to load them instead of tabbed content

@Kristi941

That content probably won't be crawlable since it is loaded via Ajax and with the exception of Google's Crawlable Ajax spec, which you are not using, isn't search engine friendly. However, just by having that content produced via Ajax won't hurt your SEO efforts. It's ok to have dynamic content produced by JavaScript as long as you aren't doing it to manipulate the search results. You clearly aren't in this case. That content just won't help you like it might if you used jQuery tabs and made it crawlable to the search engines.

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@Si4351233

Isn't the AJAX simply loading html into your page? So it's not like the search engines won't recognize the content.

Having dynamic content on your home page isn't new or bad. As you pointed out youtube.com as well as Digg.com are constantly updating their content and plenty of other sites for that matter.

It's actually good to have fresh content on your home page they'll recognize the page as being updated recently and begin crawling it more. That may or may not affect your rankings but they should crawl it more often with fresh content.

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