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Google has a well-known process for crawling websites. It’s called “AJAX crawling.” In this process, Google scans the website for all pages that contain JavaScript code. The code on these pages is used to make changes to the website so that it can be displayed correctly on Google search. This code can also be used to interact with the website, such as creating forms or adding content.
How do I allow Google to crawl my AJAX content?
Never fear. This post will show you how to allow Google to crawl your AJAX content, which is what Google means when they say “AJAX.”
Google defines this technology as “advanced JavaScript techniques that enable web applications to dynamically render portions of a page without having to reload the entire page.”
While most people think AJAX means JavaScript, it’s actually more complicated than that. In fact, when you look at the technical definition of this term, you’ll probably be surprised by how much more complex it is than what most people think.
When Google crawls your website, it does so by crawling pages on your web site and doing some analysis about them. When Google decides a particular web page has important information for its search results, it passes that information along in an algorithmically generated data file called an XML document.
What are the benefits of allowing Google to crawl my AJAX content?
Google’s Googlebot is an image search engine that crawls the web and indexes different web pages according to certain criteria, such as title and URL. This particular algorithm is called GoogleBot Inverted PageRank (G-BPR).
The goal of G-BPR is to identify content that matches a high degree of importance in order to rank the page higher in search results.
What does this mean? If you want your website to rank highly, you need to make sure that your content has links pointing back to it. Therefore, if you want your website’s content to rank well on Google, you need more links pointing back at it than links pointing out of it.
In practice, this means that if your site has any images or other content with a lot of text attached to them, then those images or texts will be crawled by Google faster than they would be if they didn’t have many other links pointing out of them.
In practice this means that people visiting your website will see the first few pages load much faster than they would otherwise.
What are the drawbacks of allowing Google to crawl my AJAX content?
If you’re an AJAX developer, you probably want to know how your content will be indexed by Google. The short answer is that the indexing process is complicated and takes a significant amount of your time.
You may not have the skills or knowledge necessary to index your content yourself, or if you do, maybe you don’t want to spend the time it takes to set up the indexing process. That’s okay – a third-party company can do it for you.
To start, select Google Webmaster Tools from your search results page (the one below). From there, click on “Indexed Content” in the left menu, then click “Crawl History.”
You’ll see a list of URLs that Google can crawl. This information shows at what point in time each URL was crawled by Google. It also shows how many times each URL was crawled over a specified period of time (such as 24 hours).
Last Updated on January 4, 2022
Aires Loutsaris is a content marketing specialist working with some of the world’s biggest VC funded startups and eCommerce companies. He has 15 years of experience in organic search optimisation and content writing with over 2500 students enrolled in his Udemy SEO course. An ex-head of two award-winning agencies, he has lectured at the University of the Arts, London College of Fashion on content marketing and has consulted for all three of the Universities he studied at: The Open University, The University of Hull and Kings College University of London. Feel free to connect with Aires on LinkedIn or Facebook.