: While there are search engines that support crawling of ajax content, traditional urls and static page content are still more reliable for search engine visibility. When a significant (large)

@Smith883

While there are search engines that support crawling of ajax content, traditional urls and static page content are still more reliable for search engine visibility.

When a significant (large) portion of a page needs to be reloaded, it is usually desirable that ajax content be crawlable. In such cases, however, a redirect would usually be a viable (but undesirable) alternative.

I would suggest to initially code the page such that it redirects when large/significant portions of the page has to be reloaded (Step1). Meaning, us an anchor with a traditional url <a href="/page/1"> (or something similar) rather than <a href="#page=1">.

Afterwards, write up javascript (jQuery) to intercept redirection and use ajax to reload the portion of the page that would change if the page redirected(Step2).

<a id="page1" href="/page/1">Page 1</a>
<script>
$("#page1").click(function () {

/*
* Perform ajax here to replace a portion of the page.
*/

return false; // prevent redirection
});
</script>


The first step results in webpages with static content and traditional urls that work even without javascript while the second step makes the webpage dynamic (avoids static content).

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