No more SEO worries for dynamic content?
I don’t want to downplay the amazing strides that have been made by the Googlebot. Google has worked tirelessly with Adobe to make Flash content indexable. If it is a Flash video, there isn’t much text to index, but many Flash experiences are full of text and Google can index a lot more of it than ever before.
Similarly, dynamic content generated from databases is indexed better than it once was, so it is less important to hide dynamic URLs than in years past.
And then there was the tweet heard round the SEO world in November, when Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that Facebook comments are now being indexed. That might sound like a small thing, but SEO gurus know that it is one more step in Google’s road to conquering a very difficult problem: understanding everything a developer can do with JavaScript. Just as a browser contains a JavaScript interpreter to render pages correctly, now Google’s spider contains some of that ability. Already, some are wondering how to take advantage of the new smarter Googlebot.
But it’s not smart to count on any of this dynamic content being indexed, for a few reasons:
So, I’m a technical guy, and I really love to see the spiders getting smarter. It would be great if any Web page that can be rendered properly in a browser could be crawled and indexed by all search engines. It would make SEO a lot simpler and would allow us to concentrate on content rather than technical mumbo-jumbo.
But we’re not there yet. So, make sure that you know what the spiders see (all of them) before you employ lots of dynamic content techniques.
Originally published on Biznology
Mike is an expert in search marketing, search technology, social media, publishing, text analytics, and web metrics, who regularly makes speaking appearances.
Mike’s previous appearances include Text Analytics World, Rutgers Business School, SEMRush webinar, ClickZ Live.
Mike also founded and writes for Biznology, is the co-author of Outside-In Marketing (with James Mathewson) and the best-selling Search Engine Marketing, Inc. (now in its 3rd edition, and sole author of Do It Wrong Quickly, named by the Miami Herald as one of the 11 best business books of 2007.
I agree that Google isn’t the only search engine (obviously) but it does seem that if you’re doing OK on Google, then you’re doing better on others… Interesting to know that facebook comments are not being indexed… that sounded a long way off when Google and Facebook fell out!
Thanks for sharing this, it was very informative. The more I learn about this business the more I wish I had gotten into it back around 2005. it seemed so much less complicated back then.
Anna, Matt Cutts from Google has announced that Facebook comments ARE being indexed, as indicated in the post. Thanks for your comment.
I think people are quick to judge Google sometimes because of their size and power but what they have accomplished and provided the marketing industry is amazing. The ability for inbound marketing is more powerful than some people think.
“if it omits any of your content, you’re losing something.”
Excellent point! You don’t want to risk pieces of content on your site not getting indexed, you never know what kind of long term effect that might have. The search spiders are good, but they aren’t perfect. Don’t live it up to chance!
A valuable SEO concept. It’s the best theory that if anyone care about how website is found in organic search, then must spend important time thinking about SEO. Just this is main theme I appreciate search engine optimization for my site. Is it?
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