ajax thread paging, will google be able to index

[dethfire]

I notice the paging is done without new page load. will google be able to index each page of a thread or will we lose that indexed content?

[Marco Mamdouh]

For two reasons yes, It will be indexed :

1- Google is currently able to index the ajax content like what is done with facebook comments which are rendered in AJAX and only visible via POST requests.
2- Google can index your threads or all of your nodes directly via the unique URLs from sitemap.

So in the two ways, Google can crawl and index your vBulletin 5 Connect nodes.

P.S : As you can see, Google indexed the vbulletin.com vb5demo content : http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=site:...w=1366&bih=602

[ShyGuy82]

For two reasons yes, It will be indexed :

1- Google is currently able to index the ajax content like what is done with facebook comments which are rendered in AJAX and only visible via POST requests.
2- Google can index your threads or all of your nodes directly via the unique URLs from sitemap.

So in the two ways, Google can crawl and index your vBulletin 5 Connect nodes.

P.S : As you can see, Google indexed the vbulletin.com vb5demo content : http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=site:...w=1366&bih=602

Google did not index ajax "paged" content, at least I couldn't find any.

[Marco Mamdouh]

Google did not index ajax "paged" content, at least I couldn't find any.

I'd suggest check this tweet from Matt Cutts

[AlexanderT]

I'd suggest check this tweet from Matt Cutts

Please see my response here:

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/407403-Unusable-without-Javascript?p=2336693&viewfull=1#post2336693

Having the "ability" to index "some" dynamic content doesn't mean that Google will automatically understand how vB5 uses Ajax.

[Wayne Luke]

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/

[dethfire]

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/

Bingo, thanks Wayne. As long as you guys researched it seriously when developing, it should be fine. All that needs to be said.

[AlexanderT]

Briefly, the solution works as follows: the crawler finds a pretty AJAX URL (that is, a URL containing a #! hash fragment).

Look at http://www.vbulletin.com/vb5demo/. E.g. in topics home, browse from page one to page two. Do you see "pretty" AJAX URLs?

[Wayne Luke]

The root is a forum directory. There are no page 1 and 2 on it. Not sure what you're looking at but the Demo was updated a while ago.

Going over the tabs, I do see those URLS. There is still some work to be done though.

[AlexanderT]

The root is a forum directory. There are no page 1 and 2 on it.

Apologies. I meant to link to a forum section. For instance: http://www.vbulletin.com/vb5demo/for...uestion-answer

[ShyGuy82]

I'd suggest check this tweet from Matt Cutts

I suggest you read my post again I never said that google cannot crawl AJAX content (it does and it exactly indexes my content) the problem is PAGING.