: How can I create a dynamic site that is still search-bot friendly? If I want to have a slide effect between pages. You click a link, it is loaded off to the side and then slides in (pushing

@Twilah146

If you want your AJAX website be friendly to search bots then you will have to make sure that the fragment identifier in the URL changes every time a visitor clicks something to have a content reloaded and, and that identifier starts the exclamation mark to communicate to the bots that your website follows a specific convention. That convention means that the actual content that is displayed by JavaScript using:
www.example.com/page#!subpage

is also served by your server when the bot downloads:
www.example.com/page?_escaped_fragment_=subpage

This is how the CreateJS website works so when you google for EaselJS you get the link to:
www.createjs.com/#!/EaselJS

which is just the same HTML page as for example:
www.createjs.com/#!/CreateJS

but with an information to the client-side JavaScript to dynamically display whatever content is identified with the #!/EaselJS fragment identifier.

See Making AJAX Applications Crawlable on Google Developers for more information.

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@Hamaas447

Create the basic form of the main page to let the bot get the information it needs and continue with the dynamic contents.

edit: you made a general question which theoretically don't have a specific answer but actually to help you start-up your project i'm doing something like this:


client requests a page.
server creates dynamically a basic page with the information a bot
needs and a skeleton with perl, php, xslt or whatever, then posting
the page
client gets the page and loads the scripts and begins to
dynamically creates the contents and moreover doing requests to
server to get other relevant contents ... like css, other scripts, images ....


edit: to start the dynamic tricks you will use something to make these tricks start-up (probably the first loaded script with the first response from the server), then for users without javascript you have to work more on the basic page and let things work for them (work which has to be done by server side) and if they have javascript your code will start-up and load the tricks.

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