TheMadScientist - 12:53 am on Oct 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Many/most webmasters will never have need for AJAX.

Very good point tedster... Most people can't even implement a simple redirect, canonicalize domains, or remove the /index.html from their directories without expert help, let alone code a site that's AJAX based.

Personally, I own two AJAX based sites and there is one site I would like to have crawled, and another I do not want crawled, so the one I don't want crawled bans not only Googlebot, but all other compliant Bots in the robots.txt, but this certainly (enormously) simplifies the SEO on the other.

Honestly, if it was me and I had the traffic Google does, I would not suggest, I would state: If you run an AJAX based website and would like your site to be crawled and indexed by Google, place an ! after the # symbol to tell GoogleBot how to access the information.

People think Google is 'overstepping' or 'out of line' by suggesting? LMAO. Be glad I'm not in charge at Google, because I wouldn't ask I would dictate, much the same way M$ does with their browsers / software...

[edited by: encyclo at 1:33 am (utc) on Oct. 8, 2009]