Kotaku has launched a new design without hashbangs. Their site still clearly uses ajax requests, but somehow it is still found through Google and the content shows up in the pagesource. How do they do it? Their text seems to be contained inside a script type=text/javascript, but I don't understand what effect that has, or why they would do that.
(of course, the first page request may just trigger a static, serverside constructed response. But check other articles, it does load json through an ajax request. No page refresh)
Have a look at this site for example:
http://kotaku.com/5800326/read-some-of-new-tomb-raider-game-right-now
No hashes, a very well formed URL and it appears in Google. I have read the Google Ajax guide, and as far as I understand it, Google only requests an html snapshot iff you use #! inside your url.
For your convenience, I have made a screenshot that shows how the text looks inside the Chrome debugger: (what does "ganjaAjaxContent" mean?)
If you search for this article, it is the first match in Google:
Google search for Kotaku article
Being able to do ajax without having to worry about Google search would be excellent.
Kotaku and the other Gawker sites are doing a number of things for SEO:
Submitting XML sitemaps for all of their content
http://kotaku.com/sitemap_today.xml
http://kotaku.com/sitemap.xml
Correct use of title and description tags for Google and Facebook
<title>Read Some of New Tomb Raider Game Right Now</title>
<meta name="fragment" content="!">
<meta name="title" content="Read Some of New Tomb Raider Game Right Now" />
<meta name="description" content="Upcoming Tomb Raider reboot doesn't have a release date yet, but website Siliconera apparently has the game's script and published what's reportedly an excerpt from it. Check it out. [Siliconera]" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Read Some of New Tomb Raider Game Right Now" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Upcoming Tomb Raider reboot doesn't have a release date yet, but website Siliconera apparently has the game's script and published what's reportedly an excerpt from it." />
Displaying HTML post content when Javascript is turned off (inspect the <div class="post-body quick-post"></div> element)
So you're right, Google's first visit loads the semantic, accessible serverside-constructed page. WHile Google can crawl hashbang pages, it doesn't need to, because all of the pages are indexed via the sitemap.xml
Hope this answers all of your questions.
p.s. having said all this, hashbangs are still bad for the web
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/09/Hash-Blecch
http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs
http://blog.benward.me/post/3231388630
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Running a URL through the Pinterest URL Debugger, and it appears to be caching have old data. Is there a way to force a refresh similar to Facebook's debugger?
I would attempt to clear your browser cache (I'm assuming it's ran in browser).
Maybe it's also using an old cookie, so log out, clear your browser cache/history, then close and open it again. You could also try a different browser to access it.
You could also try changing some old data to see if there is a pinterest db process that's using old data, and an update might refresh it.
Otherwise, you may want to reach out to pinterest support.
OK so it turns out that it was NOT holding on to old information, but rather I was using the incorrect tags for price and currency.
should be og:price:amount and og:price:currency
full documentation for the product type of rich pins: https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/rich-pins/products/
from above, minimum requirements:
<meta property="og:title" content="Name of your product" />
<meta property="og:type" content="product" />
<meta property="og:price:amount" content="1.00" />
<meta property="og:price:currency" content="USD" />
I'm currently building a music based website and I want to build something like this template. It uses ajax and deep linking. (And it makes use of the History.js library - please notice how there's no '#' in the URLs.)
The reason I want to use these 'ajaxy' methods (or maybe use the template altogether) is so that when music is playing, it will remain un-interrupted as the user navigates the site.
My worry is that my site wont be crawlable by Google but I think I can modify code in the page source to fix that. If I look at the source code to the template, in the head I see
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
Now if I add this to the head:
<meta name="fragment" content="!">
will that make the site crawlable? Is there other code I need to add on top of this? Or is it just not possible for this template?
I'm following this guide https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started, and I'm on step 3. I will of course have to complete the other steps but I don't know I'm heading in the right direction, or heading towards a dead end!
Any help would be very much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
From what you said it sounds like your site updates the address bar with clean urls as you navigate via ajax. That's good. The next thing is you want to do is make sure those urls work. If you directly go to a url do you see the specific content it represents. And would a crawler also see the correct content without running javascript. Progressive enhancement works well for that. The final thing is you want to do is make sure bots can pick up those urls.
I've not played with the meta tag for ! But it looks like it is only for the home page and you still need to implement the escaped fragment page. Maybe it does support other pages but the article does not cover that.
I wanted to know how can I use Facebook Like button on my Ajax web application, that will capture changes in the Open Graph tags for both the og:title and the og:url. I already created a Facebook app and got an API ID.
What I want to know is the code that I need to put on my website in order for Facebook to capture the changes that I've made to the meta tags which contains that title and url information (ie. og:title, og:url).
I followed the instructions on Facebook without success. Furthermore, I want to know how can I locally test the Like button to see that it grabs the data from the Open Graph tags properly.
Also worth mentioning that I've a JQuery code that automatically alters the Open Graph meta tags to include the relevant information for the current Ajax changed page.
Thanks.
You will need to have a separate url for each different page that you want to allow people to like. I would recommend actually pointing the like button to the physical pages you're trying to return via the og:url tag. To refresh the data that Facebook stores about a given url, pass that url into the linter at http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint.
i created a rotator file for facebook share on my dynamic ajax website.
rotator.asp code sample:
<html>
<% lang=request("lang")
id=request("id")
..some sql to get data...
ogTitle=....
ogImage=....
originalUrl=....
%>
<head>
<meta property="og:title" content="<%=ogTitle%>" />
<meta property="og:image" content="<%=ogImage%>" />
.....
......
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=<%=origialUrl%>" />
//dont use redirect.. facebook dont allow 302...
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
for example xxx.com/#!/en/153 page will share xxx.com/rotator.asp?lang=en&id=153
I code a news PHP script. End of each news I have a Facebook share button. The problem is I can't display thumbnail images with Facebook share.
I tried Meta OG
<link rel="image_src" href="" />
element without any success. Interesting thing is, some of the domains which is using my news PHP Script, has no problem with it but some has.
Domain without any problems:
http://www.yenialanya.com/manset/vergi-denetmenine-itiraz.htm (please check the bottom of the news)
Domains with problems:
http://www.usakhabermerkezi.com/egitim-ogretim/usak-universitesi-rektorluk-secimleri-sonuclandi-iste-secim-sonuclari.htm
http://www.demokrathaber.net/dunya/dunyanin-ekseni-kaydi.htm
http://www.tebilisim.com/v4/siyaset/benzin-zamlardan-bizde-hosnut-degiliz.htm
I also tried addThis and it didn't solve the problem.
All of the domain names above are using the same system. I thought it might be because of the system so I tried clean HTML page:
http://www.phpsistem.com/fb/
As you can see in the last example, I used 2 different kind of sharing options. First with popup. I sent all parameters over URL but some domains display images, some don't. I also added addThis option.
I also thought about .htaccess and cleaned everything in it since I thought .htaccess might block something. I took every step very carefully which I could think of.
This issue started to be annoying, I would be glad if anyone could help me out.
Use Open Graph protocol
<meta property="og:title" content="The Rock"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="movie"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="IMDb"/>
<meta property="fb:admins" content="USER_ID"/>
<meta property="og:description"
content="A group of U.S. Marines, under command of
a renegade general, take over Alcatraz and
threaten San Francisco Bay with biological
weapons."/>
To test each links use URL Linter
Look at this forum, most of them will ask same questions, why OG image is not working on like button. It's a bug maybe? Bug 16580
Are you using a public server or a local one? Facebook share doesn't show pictures if the URLs are coming from localhost.
Facebook seems to want images that are at least 200px in both directions, whether supplied in the OG metadata, or just embedded on the page. They have updated their URL linter to show this error for the OG metadata recently. I can't find sources now, but I thought they used to have a maximum pixel dimension of less than 200px previously...
Also, I've seen problems displaying thumbnail images for Chrome on OS X, where on Windows browsers there is no problem. Really strange.
Go to http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and fill in your url
If the Responscode is 503 then your website is not accessible. It could be that your website is under construction…
Maybe it has been asked somewhere, but I am trying to find my question and I am not able to find any answer.
Here's my question:
I am developing a web application and because of some major JavaScript issue in IE8, I need the user to run "Google Chrome Frame" (To enhance the speed of the web page). I was impressed that my page was working 100% fine until the time it was supposed to be refreshing and it wasn't refreshing (Ajax getJSON request using jQuery).
The problem is that it does not request the new data on the server, but it looks like it goes in the cache for the answer of that request and then return the same thing every time instead of new data.
I don't really know how to explain it, but it just does not update. Also, when I hit F5 on the page, it does not update the page, it keeps the old page (even if I hit CTRL-F5 or any other normal force-refresh button). To have the changes, I actually need to close the browser (IE8) and re-open it so it can take the new changes.
Is there anyone who know how I could disable the cache when Google Chrome Frame is active?
The meta tag I use is :
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache, must-revalidate">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="X-UA-COMPATIBLE" CONTENT="CHROME=1">
If you need any more details, don't hesitate to ask.
An old CGI trick would have been to encode the date as a parameter onto the request so the URL changes with each request. That generally stops any caching on the URL.
So you'd have url?01102010134532 if you encoded date and time down to miliseconds.
If I understand your requirement properly, you'd have to do this in JQuery / JS and would need to modify the parameter on the URL after each AJAX request was made, so the next one would be different to the previous