> 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
> search engine optimized site?

> The XSLT would be processed all on the client-side so the XML would be
> output plainly to Google.

> This was their most relevant response:

> "Googlebot will index XML as XML. Google does rank XML pages in the
> main index but they prefer to rank a normal HTML page. So, yes they
> understand it but we still should provide an HTML version"

> So my question here is this:  what would be the best way to tackle
> this and accomplish a lite-weight website while still achieving a well
> optimized site for the search engines?