AJAX and SEO

can work together?

[YuviG]

Hi Friends

I have a website with lots of ajax. Is there any way to optimize a AJAX driven website for search engines.
What are common tips on SEO for ajax website?

Thanks!

[vincevincevince]

First of all, disable javascript and make sure you can reach all the content from the homepage in a logical and short progression of clicks. In fact, that's pretty much the sole requirement specific to AJAX websites.

You can approach it in one of two ways. The first is to provide degrading functionality, e.g. a standard form with action ="submit.php" gets changed into an AJAX enabled form with an onSubmit handler only if javascript is there. The second way is to test for the presence of javascript and then serve up different pages to those who have it (i.e. with ajax functions instead of more traditional coding methods).