httpwebwitch - 6:07 pm on Apr 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

I'm inclined to favour method #2 above. Simply because it'd be easy to tuck your content into a CMS, or into plain *.html files, and loading the content wouldn't take much longer than loading other dependent files like images, *.js and *.css files.

However I suspect (without proof) that bots go trolling for any URLs found within scripts. For instance, if I happen to inject this script onto a page:

<script>
var dummy = "http://www.example.com/dummypage.html"
</script>

My theory is that Googlebot will visit that URL and try to index it. Even though it's just a string in a JS variable, never actually used for anything.

'Twould be a simple hypothesis to test...