Dealing with indexable Ajax

[ErinTM]

Hello there,

My site is basically an Ajax application. We assume lots of people link into deep pages on the site, but bots won't be able to read past the hashmarks, meaning all links appear to go to our home page.

So, we have decided to form our Ajax for indexing. And so many questions remain.

First, only Google handles indexable Ajax, so we need to keep our static "SEO" pages up for Bing and Yahoo. Bummer, dude, more to manage.

1. How do others deal with the differences here?

2. If we have indexable Ajax and static pages, can these be perceived as duplicate content? Maybe the answer is to disallow google bot from indexing the static pages we made.

3. What does your canonical URL become? Can you tell different search engines to read different canonical URLs?

So many more questions, but I'll stop there.

Curious if anyone here has thoughts (or experience) on the matter.

Erin

[CodyWheeler]

Hoping someone can answer these questions. We've got some AJAX coding on our site too and I'm concerned it's going to cause a lot of indexing problems.

The obvious answer is to see if you can find another way to build your site where it will be viewable, but often times (and in my case too) that isn't possible from a development standpoint.