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It is a good idea, but there are issues with the execution. I'll outline them below. The most critical problem is that your site has serious SEO issues. Stack
by allang 17y ago
It is a good idea, but there are issues with the execution. I'll outline them below.
The most critical problem is that your site has serious SEO issues. Stack Overflow was built with the goal of having crawlable questions and answers. That's how you build traffic and usage. Your questions are loaded with some AJAX, which means that the search engine will never see them. Even worse, your content will look stale to Google and be indexed very infrequently.
My suggestion: Even if you create a sitemap.xml file (which is one solution), your files will be indexed slowly. You will need to mess with the crawl frequency manually with Google Webmaster Tools. This is less than ideal. The ideal solution is to actually create a crawlable site. You should invest some time and money into learning about SEO and perhaps hiring someone to audit your site.
Next, a little harsh criticism: If you are targeting foodies, you should design your site as such. It's not a very attractive site, let alone designed correctly.
- voidfiles 17y agoWhen you say designed correctly, what does that mean? As for SEO not all parts are loaded over ajax, we have a plan for SEO we are just trying to get the user experience down first before we start optimizing for SEO.
- allang 17y agoI don't mean the design of the code, although that's a little bit of a mess as well. I mean - Your site and Stack Overflow share some functionality, but they do not serve the same purpose. You've basically taken the Stack Overflow design and layout and copied it. Your design cannot work unless it comes from a single purpose and central idea. This applies for everything, not just your design. Features and functionality, as well as design, cannot work unless they follow from your that single basic idea.
- voidfiles 17y agoI think I have a single idea. It may not look like that I concede, but I do have an idea. Stack Overflow has a great idea, but they don't apply it to food. I am at the most basic level trying to create a stack overflow for food. Obviously the food audience and the geeks might be different, so in the long run the site needs to be different, but in the begging I am really just trying to copy.
- ricree 17y ago"Your questions are loaded with some AJAX, which means that the search engine will never see them" I'm looking at the site with noscript on, and everything seems to be fine. Did he change things since you posted, or am I misunderstanding the issue.
- voidfiles 17y agoIts built to degrade gracefully. So if you view the site without javascript it should still work. So yes google should be able to pick up all the content. Ajax was hopefully a better user experience.