Remotely Loaded Content

[AlabuSkinCare]

Hi Folks,

I have a two part question. I'd like to add a feature to our website where people can click on an ingredient (we manufacture skin care products) and a tool-tip style box pops up and describes information about the ingredient. Because many products share some of the same ingredients, I'm going to load this data from a source file via AJAX. My questions are:

1. Does this type of remotely-fetched content have any effect on how a search engines views and indexes the page? Can it help contribute to the page's search engine ranking?

2. If there are multiple pages fetching the same piece of remotely-fetched content, will this be seen as duplicated content?

Thanks!

Hal

[smokin_ace]

Hi there,

1. Loading tooltip through ajax will not prevent Google Bot from indexing your page. You can always check how google bot sees your content through Google Webmaster Panel. At the same time I believe it will not make any contribution for your ranking.

2. This wouldn't  be counted as duplicated content since you will be loading tool tip information from other websites. As I know from the latest news, Google are not counting citations as duplicated content. But of course it should be marked properly as citation, I mean HTML.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Russel

[AlabuSkinCare]

Thanks Ruslan!