[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #1701: New AJAX Theme Not Very Search Engine Friendly / Crawlable

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#1701: New AJAX Theme Not Very Search Engine Friendly / Crawlable
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Reporter:  benfremer  |       Owner:       
    Type:  defect     |      Status:  new  
Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  1.2.1
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Comment(by benfremer):

 Sitemaps are ok, but in my experience on SEO with a few sites with
 sitemaps and more than a few hundred pages, it's better to have it link-
 crawlable. Especially on bigger sites (like over a few hundred pages),
 contrary to what may be sometimes rumored, an XML sitemap doesn't
 guarantee the pages will get indexed, and actually resulted in like only
 1/3rd to 1/100th or worse of # of pages indexed compared to a link-
 crawlable format (that's my estimate on how XML vs. link-crawlable would
 impact Buddypress). PageRank also usually (perhaps always) seem to pass
 better down through the home page when Link-Crawlable way as well.

 So I think the admin option to make it link-crawlable is best / still
 important as well. Perhaps with that option, you could turn off 2nd query
 which is done by AJAX depending on if the user's browser has Javascript
 enabled or not.

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