nikao - 2:03 pm on Mar 7, 2007 (gmt 0)

m wondering whether functional cloaking would be allowed by the major
search engines as opposed to content cloaking.
The situation is as follows:

There is a site build in an Ajax framework. The site is a RIA, with 1
pagerefresh. To allow people to bookmark and communicate different
'pages' (they're really states of the application) and to use the back
and forward functionality of the browser, a hash # is used in the url
+ extra information to determine the state.

There are 2 problems here from a SEO perspective;
the site isn't indexable, since the content is loaded with JS.
The urls arent crawlable because of the # in the url.

So what I'm thinking at this moment is building a 'shadow site', that
will be using the exact same content, only in html and via seo
friendly urls.
Then I'd check whether a visitor is a SE or a reall visitor, and
rewrite the url accordingly.

Obviously this would be a cloaking method, which isn't allowed. But I
think the Search Engines have stated in the terms that you are not
allowed to show the search engines different content.
Since we'd be using the same content, only another technical way of
presenting it, would that be ok you think?