True Single-Page website & indexing

[fruitwerks]

I have a site written entirely in JavaScript. Once the page is loaded, it uses AJAX calls to get the content. I have only one page, and it doesn't reload while accessing any area of the site.

I have a bot friendly index page that returns about 90% of the site content in a single page with h1,h2, and p's all in the right place.

Bots are triggering the bot content properly because that is what is cached. I checked google, yahoo and bing and the cache is over 30 days old. We update at least weekly.

Someone suggested a sitemap, but once I showed them the site they said it wouldn't help. He also mentioned he has two static sites that get checked daily since he got a sitemap up. From my understanding sitemaps were created to help people index flash sites, and those usually have the same issue as mine.

What are my options?

Thanks all!

[caribguy]

Just checked one of mine that is a bit like you described: one page of html, with js used to tab/navigate through several sections.

Page content does not change very often.

Cache is 7 days old in Google and 2 in Bing/Yahoo.

Googlebot requests robots.txt about once a day and the page itself about every other day. Bing shows up daily, and Slurp a few times a week.

Does your site have strong inbound links?

[fruitwerks]

Site is fairly new, we have about 5 unique a day, and about 15 or so backlinks in each of the big 3... amazingly 30% of the traffic is from search engines... I just looked in google webmaster tools and noticed they only come by once a month - site was up and in dev for about 4 months, and we got backlinked without submitting. I re-submitted recently so hopefully things will get going

Thanks!

[phranque]

Making AJAX Applications Crawlable - Google Code:
http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/ [code.google.com]

this probably won't help you for bing/yahoo