SEO
Wed, 07/30/2008 - 14:34 — itsasbreuk
Hello,
Can anyone tell me something about the findability (mainly Google) of Echo websites?
I'm quite new to Echo, and I am very delighted of what I have seen. But as far as I can see, the generated html page might not lead to the desired results. Am I right?
Thanks,
Marco
Correct, search engines
Correct, search engines cannot efficiently index Echo applications. Echo is used primarily to build applications not sites, so for most users it is probably not a concern.
This is nothing unique to echo3
And just to add to these comments, remember that any other rich client-side application framework would suffer the same problem. Search engines only index the HTML returned from servers (I over-simplify). If a toolkit is loaded into the client side which then performs major DOM manipulation, the search engine can have no knowledge of it.
So you would have the same problem building clients in GWT, Flash-based technologies, etc.
As rakesh says, when talking about applications, it's unlikely you want the logged in application pages indexing by search engines.
If the concern is that you want users to be able to find your application via search engines, then front your application with some standard HTML, either static or generated by PHP / JSP / whatever you like.