SEO and Unobtrusive Javascript

Dietrich Kappe, Thursday, June 21, 2007 @ 5:00 am

There's a short article over at softwaredeveloper.com on incorporating the Ajax without breaking your Google friendliness. They have a few concrete tips:

• Design your site with degradable AJAX, that way users with JavaScript disabled can view a working version of your website along with JavaScript enabled visitors.
• After you've established a non-AJAX working version of your website, go back and include an alternative AJAX enhancements where you desire.
• When designing, make sure to check your website with JavaScript disabled as well as through the eyes of a text only browser such as Lynx or SEO-Browser.
• Perform a browser check to make sure the user has JavaScript enabled, that way you're only serving AJAX pages to users that can view them.

Useful stuff, though you may want to check out this book for the nitty-gritty on unobtrusive Javascript.

The best link from the article is this presentation, which is itself and excellent example of unobtrusive Javascript.

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