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fruitwerks

12:38 am on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I have a site written entirely in JavaScript. Once the page is loaded, it uses AJAX calls to get the content. I have only one page, and it doesn't reload while accessing any area of the site.

I have a bot friendly index page that returns about 90% of the site content in a single page with h1,h2, and p's all in the right place.

Bots are triggering the bot content properly because that is what is cached. I checked google, yahoo and bing and the cache is over 30 days old. We update at least weekly.

Someone suggested a sitemap, but once I showed them the site they said it wouldn't help. He also mentioned he has two static sites that get checked daily since he got a sitemap up. From my understanding sitemaps were created to help people index flash sites, and those usually have the same issue as mine.

What are my options?

Thanks all!

caribguy

12:59 am on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Just checked one of mine that is a bit like you described: one page of html, with js used to tab/navigate through several sections.

Page content does not change very often.

Cache is 7 days old in Google and 2 in Bing/Yahoo.

Googlebot requests robots.txt about once a day and the page itself about every other day. Bing shows up daily, and Slurp a few times a week.

Does your site have strong inbound links?

fruitwerks

1:08 am on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Site is fairly new, we have about 5 unique a day, and about 15 or so backlinks in each of the big 3... amazingly 30% of the traffic is from search engines... I just looked in google webmaster tools and noticed they only come by once a month - site was up and in dev for about 4 months, and we got backlinked without submitting. I re-submitted recently so hopefully things will get going

Thanks!

phranque

1:15 am on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Making AJAX Applications Crawlable - Google Code:
http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/ [code.google.com]

this probably won't help you for bing/yahoo