<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A friend of mine raised an interesting question. He wants to use AHAH for important website content, so he'd like to make sure that it gets properly indexed. My suggestion (which I added to the wiki) was:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/ahah#Indexing">http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/ahah#Indexing</A></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">Another advantage of AHAH is that the dynamic XHTML content can be easily indexed by search engines; this avoids the need to inline all the dynamic content as hidden divs, which would increase page load times.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">The current best practice for doing this is to:</SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">included <link> tags in <head> of the parent page, to reference the various URLs retrieved by AHAH</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">include <redirects> in the outer HTML of the AHAH page, so that search hits go to an appropriate anchor on the parent page</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">It is possible that some crawlers will automatically index the URLs in the JavaScript calls, if recognized as such (e.g., due to the "html" extension, or if it is an absolute URL), though it is not clear how well this would work.</SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, I'm not enough of a web crawler guru to know whether this is actually good advice. Anybody more knowledgeable want to chime in?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- Ernie P.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>