AJAX & JQuery Tabs: Indexation & Navigation

[zeepartner]

Hi

I've two questions about indexing Tabs.

1. Let's say I have tabs, or an accordion that is triggered with Jquery. That means that all HTML is accessible and indexed by search engines. But let's say a search query is relevant to the content in Tab#3, while Tab#1 is the one that's open by default. Is there any way that Tab#3 would be open directly if it's more relevant to the search query?

2. AJAX Tabs: We have pages that have Tabs triggered by AJAX (example: http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/help/loesung/entfernen-sie-sim-lock.html). I'm wondering about the current best practice. Google recommends HTML Snapshots. A newer SEOMoz Article talks about pushState(). What's the way to go here?

Or in other words: How to get Tabs & Accordion content indexed and allow users to navigate directly to it?

[BlueprintMarketing]

I would do some serious decoding

if you want to see what Google sees this as a great tool http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

see what screaming frog tells you then try to fix it in Unicode 8

can fix some of this by going to the bottom of this page and changing your robot.txt.

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/learn-more

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt

you have too many parameters http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/help/loesung/entfernen-sie-sim-lock.html

in my opinion you forgot some serious code changing To do.

if you want to use one of the tools Google recommended you'll need I-frame crawling and you can do that with this along with the 2nd URL

https://github.com/crawljax/crawljax/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=387

http://watij.com/

http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html

because it is Java based there are some great tools found here as well

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=39153aad-6203-40ef-b239-e41243e27792

I wish you the best and hope that this is helpful,

Thomas

[BlueprintMarketing]

I forgot to add this but this is very relevant the software could make your script is Seo friendly

http://madrobby.github.com/scriptaculous/controls/

[zeepartner]

Hi Thomas

Thanks for the resources. I'll have to check with IT which solution seems most practical.

Though I don't understand two points:

• Where does robots.txt come into the game?
• How do we have too many parameters in http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/help/loesung/entfernen-sie-sim-lock.htm? Can you specify this?

Thanks!

/Philipp

[BlueprintMarketing]

hello Philip,

robots.txt file allows you to tell the web bots that crawl your site what is a link and what is not a link that you want to show to the world and to Google

Most search engines will analyze and follow a link only if it contains three query string parameters or fewer.

many parameters in the link shown you have 5 parameters they are what come after the1st / as shown below you have 5. You can block off certain parameters with robots.txt

/en/residential/help/loesung/entfernen-sie-sim-lock

http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/help/loesung/entfernen-sie-sim-lock.htm

for some reason whenever I go to your link you have posted I get this error

The requested URL /system/sling/cqform/defaultlogin.html was not found on this server.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff723936(v=expression.40).aspx

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687

please links above regarding URL parameters and Microsoft and Google agree that too many parameters and they will not search the link.

I hope this is been helpful

sincerely,

Thomas