Most notable among them are broken links or 404s on your site, content in Flash, AJAX, and iFrames or embedding links inside JavaScript. Once you’ve finished your on-page SEO audit, the next step is to conduct a technical site audit.
In October 2011, Google began indexing Facebook comments generated by AJAX or JavaScript, but don't forget about Bing and Yahoo. Before giving in to the dark side, check out these SEO tips to renew your faith in the [white hat] light side of the...
If they can read AJAX and Javascript enough to start pulling and indexing comments from Facebook, there must be a way to do something similar to content management system (CMS) pages. To Google, "cloaking refers to the practice of presenting...
Google's search robot has been improved; it can now read and understand certain dynamic comments implemented through AJAX and JavaScript. As first noted by Digital Inspiration, the Googlebot seems to have picked up a neat trick: the ability to...
Also, how accessible a site is, without overuse of JavaScript menus and AJAX, Flash, and other barriers, is important. While search engine optimization (SEO) as a channel is maturing and growing beyond technical competence only, there will always...
Many sites will use the pull-down option, but will often code it as a JavaScript popup with Flash or, more recently, using AJAX or Flex coding techniques. The most common of these problems is the use of language or location detection to dynamically...
It makes you wonder, though, how many more ill effects might be felt in the SEO world if Google can't effectively crawl JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, etc. Before now, the JavaScript links haven't been a problem as they weren't "counted" as links -- but...
Analytics vendor Clicky has published a blog post saying that Google is testing Ajax-powered search results which prevent third-party analytics providers from tracking search referrals. We are currently experimenting with a javascript enhanced...
Chrome's main features include a beefed-up Javascript engine (aka V8), which will improve performance of AJAX apps like Gmail and Google Docs. Rumors of a "Google Operating System" have been around for a few years now, fueled by Google's expansion...
According to Facebook developer Wei Zu, “This JavaScript client library allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site and makes it easy to create Ajax Facebook applications. Still looking for some attention from the social networks?
Ajax and Search EnginesWe still live in a world where crawlers have problems with Ajax and Javascript, but there are ways to minimize those problems. From the SEW blog: Organic Search SEW Experts: SEO Engineers Keep Agency on TrackThere's a dirty...
Ajax and Search EnginesWe still live in a world where crawlers have problems with Ajax and Javascript, but there are ways to minimize those problems. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
One of the things that the post reinforces is that we still live in a world where crawlers have problems with Ajax and Javascript. That way you'll have the Ajax functionality for Javascript users, while non-Javascript users can ignore the script...
Now you can tag and track Flash and Ajax events. In the near future you only have to append a tracking parameter, and Google Analytics can still track it without your having to run Javascript when someone clicks on an exit link.
AJAX Technology and SEO High Rankings Forum "Turn off your Javascript and view the site. AJAX can be used for a lot of things. What's going on in the search industry? Find out here, with these links to some of the latest topics being discussed in...
Google recently announced an extension to its Ajax API to include an Ajax Feed API. I spoke with technical director Mark Lucovsky about the Ajax Feed API to learn what it was about, and what it means for web masters.
There is a healthy dose of AJAX functionality throughout the search and mapping modules, which make for a good user experience. From the mapping interface, there are lots of other neat AJAX based tools that allow you to do things like get...
For example, please do not implement all your pages completely in Javascript or Ajax. Some of the more savvy marketers know enough to look at things from the perspective of end users as well, since those are the people they are ultimately trying to...
Tracking rich Internet applications, like AJAX, where pageviews are meaningless Trackability issues resulting from blocked cookies and Javascript Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting has just posted an interview with Google Analytics' Brett Crosby.
Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.Ajax, (the programming language, not the cleanser) short for Asynchronous JavaScript...
