Comments on: Thinking About SEO While You Build a New Website

By: Amelia Charley

Amelia Charley — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:12:16 +0000

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By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:00:34 +0000

Hi Thomasine! Thanks for reading!

By: Thomasine Tassin

Thomasine Tassin — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:03:20 +0000

Hey, awesome blog.I saw this while using google with a semi related term. Reguards from Russia

By: PPC Management Phoenix

PPC Management Phoenix — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:20:10 +0000

This blog is AWESOME! I’m so glad I was surfing Yahootoday and found it. It was just what I was looking for! I have been doing this for awhile now and this even tought me something. Keep up the awesome work. I’ll be back to read more!

By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:10:16 +0000

Thanks Ben!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:40:36 +0000

Ryan,

Great post. Far too often I see people who have changed websites without any consideration over what they need to do for SEO. Four important points, nicely covered.

By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:39:21 +0000

Hi Jerrold,

which link are you referring to?

By: Jerrold Turmel

Jerrold Turmel — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:14:40 +0000

Killer post, but that link is dead. Not sure if that was just a one-time thing or not but thought you might want to know. Thank you for this helpful info!

By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:59:17 +0000

Hi BeeMan!

Crawlers can still see “hidden elements” behind AJAX or other javascript tricks. If you read the source code, you can still see the HTML content (good for search engines), but help usability by not overloading the page with content to the user.

One issue to be concerned with is IF the search engine idexes and ranks the content on a javascript slider, for example, and the user clicks on it in the search results, and then comes to the page and can’t find the content, that could be problematic.

What you want to do is identify each JS element on the page with a hash tag, like “www.site/com/#sliderA” or “/#sliderB” for example. That way you can link to a particular section of the javascript slider if you want to.

Email me at ryan@pearanalytics.com if this doesn’t make sense!

By: BeeMan

BeeMan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:20:40 +0000

Great site, it’s helping me everyday. I do wonder about something how will crawlers like hidden elements?
The wonders of JavaScript and all The librarys within make use of hidden elements to be revealed of the press of a button. I love slides and movement but what does crawlers think of them, if they could?