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Is there any way to make JavaScript generated content indexable by search engines? I remember reading something about Google parsing a generated site map, but I might be wrong here.

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ptrn
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  • Sitemaps will only let you include URLs afaik: http://www.sitemaps.org/ . If your javascript generated content is retrieved via ajax you may obviously link to the source via sitemaps. So, sitemaps may well be a step in the right direction for you but not a real solution. – FK82 Jun 24 '10 at 21:20

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I also remember reading something similar when searching for a history plugin for jQuery. You might check out:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/11/spiders-view-of-web-20.html

The explanation of hash links and actual href links sounds about right.

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  • I agree, and the emphasis should be on Progressive Enhancement. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement – Peter Sep 17 '10 at 12:52
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Mostly the search engine spiders do not render javascript so any content will not be seen.

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