Andrey Sivtsov is General Director of BoonEx Community Software Experts Company (http://boonex.com). The company is devoted to developing cutting-edge web applications for online communities, using the latest technologies. "We make them advanced, search-engine-friendly and user-friendly," he notes.
In "i-Technology Viewpoint" Ashok Sundani wrote that "... the search engine
will never run your AJAX. To the search engine, huge areas of your website
content are now hidden, never to be spidered, indexed, or found. This really
limits the usefulness of AJAX in many applications." Well, that "fact" is, in
fact, contends Andrey Sivtsov in this rebuttal, not a fact.
We want both AJAX and search engines to stay alive and happy. BoonEx offers
advice on how to do what was considered to be the impossible.
AJAX is a great technology, and most of its so-called "drawbacks" can be
worked around. AJAX is extremely popular in web development now, but we hear
tons of whining about how search-engine-UNfriendly and unusable (back
button/permalinks problem) it is. C'mon, just think a bit -... (more)
Andrey Sivtsov is General Director of BoonEx Community Software Experts Company (http://boonex.com). The company is devoted to developing cutting-edge web applications for online communities, using the latest technologies. "We make them advanced, search-engine-friendly and user-friendly," he notes.
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