Google Feed API and SEO

[A.C.]

Hi. I'm finding the Google Feed API very easy and convenient to use, and have a question: How does the Feed, when displayed on a page using the JSON interface, affect a site's SEO? I'm asking because the data is dynamically added to a DIV on the page using JavaScript; when you view the page source, it's not there. So, can search engines pick it up? Is it picked up by web crawlers/spiders/robots? If not, is there a way to have the search engines find the feed that's been added to our page? We'd like to have search engines pick up the information and help our SEO.

Thank you.

[Jeremy Geerdes]

Search engines have made a lot of progress in indexing dynamic content, but you probably shouldn't rely on them. In order to guarantee that search engines will index your feed-based content, you'll probably want to pull it server-side and actually write it into the page.

That said, the Feeds API TOS explicitly states that Google may shut down the service with or without warning at any time. I would be extremely wary of basing any mission-critical application on it.

jg

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:14 PM, A.C. <coug...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. I'm finding the Google Feed API very easy and convenient to use, and have a question: How does the Feed, when displayed on a page using the JSON interface, affect a site's SEO? I'm asking because the data is dynamically added to a DIV on the page using JavaScript; when you view the page source, it's not there. So, can search engines pick it up? Is it picked up by web crawlers/spiders/robots? If not, is there a way to have the search engines find the feed that's been added to our page? We'd like to have search engines pick up the information and help our SEO.

Thank you.

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[A.C.]

Thanks, Jeremy. I use the Google Feed API because of cross-domain issues if we try to fetch the feed directly via JavaScript. Would those issues be resolved if we move the fetch server-side?

On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 10:02:12 PM UTC-4, jgeerdes [AJAX APIs "Guru"] wrote:

Search engines have made a lot of progress in indexing dynamic content, but you probably shouldn't rely on them. In order to guarantee that search engines will index your feed-based content, you'll probably want to pull it server-side and actually write it into the page.

That said, the Feeds API TOS explicitly states that Google may shut down the service with or without warning at any time. I would be extremely wary of basing any mission-critical application on it.

jg

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:14 PM, A.C. wrote:

Hi. I'm finding the Google Feed API very easy and convenient to use, and have a question: How does the Feed, when displayed on a page using the JSON interface, affect a site's SEO? I'm asking because the data is dynamically added to a DIV on the page using JavaScript; when you view the page source, it's not there. So, can search engines pick it up? Is it picked up by web crawlers/spiders/robots? If not, is there a way to have the search engines find the feed that's been added to our page? We'd like to have search engines pick up the information and help our SEO.

Thank you.

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