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Using url fragments seems to limit how well Google can index it. site:john-doe.neocities.org in a google search only finds the main page and dist page.
by tyingq 5y ago
Using url fragments seems to limit how well Google can index it.
site:john-doe.neocities.org in a google search only finds the main page and dist page.
- andyp-kw 5y agoThis is like a chicken and an egg problem. Google likely haven't designed their indexer to handle pages like this because not many people do it. Many people don't do it, because Google won't index it properly.
- tyingq 5y agoI did find an old post from Google that suggests adding a ! after the #. https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax-crawlable https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2009/10/proposal-f... No idea if that still works.
- tambourine_man 5y agoThere’s only the main page, that’s the trick. Nothing else for Google to find.
- tyingq 5y agoGiven one of the sections is a blog, that seems sub optimal.
- jay_kyburz 5y agoI don't know why they hide stuff, just show the whole site as a single page you can scroll down.
- dredmorbius 5y agoInformation presentation has practical and usability aspects. Sometimes you want as much information as possible on a page. Sometimes you want one and only one portion presented. Which you choose depends very much on the application, user community, and objectives.