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From: RainboRick
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:03:59 -0800 (PST)
Local: Wed, Nov 28 2007 12:03 pm
Subject: Re: XML + XSLT = Good SEO?
The response you posted from the search engine expert was accurate.
While Google and the other search engines can index a wide variety of document types, non-HTML documents do not tend to rank well because they lack the common mark-up facilities of HTML that allow authors to add titles to their documents and to otherwise emphasize their keywords. I expect that the day when search engines develop better facilities for indexing XML/XSLT documents is not far off, but its not here yet. You'll be better off if you can make sure that there are HTML versions of the most important pages on your websites. There are several ways to go about this, and the best method will depend on the nature of your sites and the content itself. I'm sure your consultant will have some good suggestions. Good luck! On Nov 27, 9:24 pm, Jonathan Dingman wrote:
> We have a few sites that rely heavily upon SEO. We also have a lot of
> sites on our server, so we want to minimize load time and maximize > efficiency. > With those key components in mind, here are some thoughts.
> I've been contacting a well known search expert back and forth.
> The question of: does using XML and XSLT together make for a well
> The XSLT would be processed all on the client-side so the XML would be
> This was their most relevant response:
> "Googlebot will index XML as XML. Google does rank XML pages in the
> So my question here is this: what would be the best way to tackle
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