search-engine

I have been working with some advanced javascript applications using a lot of ajax requests to render my page. To make the applications crawlable (by google), I have to follow https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/?hl=fr . This tells us to do something like: redesigning our links, creating html snapshots,... to make the site searchable. I wonder why crawlers don't run javascript to get the rendered page and index on it. Is there a reason behind this? Or it's a missing feature of search engines that may come in the future? Even though GoogleBot actually does handle sites

Alright so I've been writing Backbone.js apps for over a year now and I love the framework model. I've learned how to avoid all the pitfalls and such, but there's one area I'm still quite weak as a single page app developer: how to SEO a public facing app. I'm working on a blog project, and the easiest solution to my mind is to have a server generated list of all blog entries visible as a link from the /blog section that is rendered on page load, and to ensure that when hitting a /blog/:id url, the server loads the blog content into the very first div on the page, which will be set as display

Is there a search engine, that would allow me to search by a regular expression? Google Code Search allows you to search using a regular expression. As far as I am aware no such search engine exists for general searches. There are a few problems with regular expressions that current prohibit employing these in real-world scenarios. The most pressing would be that the entire cached Internet would have to be matched with your regex, which would take significant computing resources; indexes are pretty much useless in regex context it seems, due to regexes being potentially unbound (/fo*bar/). I

Im working with jquery ui on many of my websites and I am concerned that any content that is in hidden divs that will be used for a dialog is not search engine friendly and I would like to find out if: Is content in hidden divs searched/indexed by google? What is the best practice for using jQuery UI dialogs/tabs or other hidden elements on a webpage? (to ensure the best results for SEO) This is the guidance that google provides. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769 Hidden content is also mentioned here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer

I'm implementing a search system onto my django project, using django haystack. The problem is that some fields in my models have some french accents, and I would like to find the entries which contents the query with and without accents. I think the best Idea is to create a SearchIndex with both the fields with the accents, and the same field without the accents. Any idea or hint on this ? Here is some code Imagine the following models : Cars(models.Model): name = models.CharField() and the following Haystack Index: Cars(indexes.SearchIndex): name = indexes.CharField(model_attr='name')

Suppose I have a page on my website to show media releases for the current month http://www.mysite.com/mediareleases.aspx And for reasons which it's mundane to go into*, this page MUST be given a query string with the current day of the month in order to produce this list: http://www.mysite.com/mediareleases.aspx?prevDays=18 As such I need to redirect clients requesting http://www.mysite.com/mediareleases.aspx to http://www.mysite.com/mediareleases.aspx?prevDays=whateverDayOfTheMonthItIs My question is, if I want google to index the page without the query parameter, should I use status code

How can I make it so that content from a database is available to search engines, like google, for indexing? Example: Table in mysql has a field named 'Headline' which equals 'BMW M3 2005'. My site name is 'MySite' User enters 'BMW M3 2005 MySite' in google and the record will show up with results? Google indexes web pages, so you will need to have a page for each of your records, this doesn't mean to say you need to create 1,000 HTML pages, but following my advice above will dynamically / easily provide a seemingly unique page for each product. For example: www.mydomain.com/buy/123/nice-bmw