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 More options Nov 29 2007, 8:59 am
From: nick shepherd
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:59:21 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Nov 29 2007 8:59 am
Subject: Re: XML + XSLT = Good SEO?
It's already been answered from an SEO standpoint but have you also
considered the repercussions of relying on the XSL translations to be
done on the client side?  Not all browsers support XML / XSLT
translations, specifically older versions of Opera.  Relying solely on
the clients browser for tasks as important as the XSL translation
would be for your site isn't necessarily very smart when you have
several server side scripting languages that can do the translation
themselves and you wouldn't have to worry about depending on the
client's browser and you could also still present google with a well
formed html page.

Nick

On Nov 27, 10:24 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
> 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?


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