In my homepages, my content is mostly based there. the content describes my game, and uses keywords to increse my search engine rank

will using ajax to laod my pages prevent search engines from spidering my website?


help please!

Most likely - as spiders (as far as I am aware) spider code, not a rendered page...

yep spiders can't get text from an ajaxed loaded page because it loads on the fly and if you look at the soruce u will not see it there. so if you can see it there neithe can spiders

It depends largely on how you code your page. There are some high-placed sites that have ajax incorporated. They are highly-placed because of optimization. If you post the url, i'd be happy to take a look

Yes generally it does prevent search engine spiders from indexing a site.

An easy way to test: turn off Javascript in your web browser. Does your site work at all? If it doesn't don't count on it working for search engine spiders either.

People use the word Ajax to describe a lot of things.

If you plan to download the content of your page using HTTPRequest and then plunk it into div then you are screwed as far as search engines are concerned.

On the other hand if your objective is simply to dynamically display your content as people hover/click around and you show/hide divs on your site using JS then you will be fine since a search engine does not really know/care what is hidden and what is shown.

As other posters were alluding to when talking about 'optimization', the key is to make sure that all of the relevant marketing text comes down with the page. How you thrash it around from there is up to you. If you dynamically load other stuff that is not important from a keyword point of view then it is not really going to hurt you.