SEO and Pagination on search results

[ocelot]

Hi

Our new site is still in beta mode, and I just wanted to check from an SEO perspective that on search results and on the pagination at the bottom of the page, is there anything we need to do so its compatible with the search engines and not have duplicate content issues etc

I have implemented search friendly URL's, but I would welcome any other issues or suggestions you have that will help improve the sites SEO performance

The URL of a search results page is

http://www.cheapfindergames.com/category-arcade-and-platform

[AlanMosley]

Doug is correct,

the best practises is to not use ajax on load, only for futher requests.

[DougRoberts]

This might help: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/index.html

It's google's guide to making ajax applications crawlable!

Good luck!

[ocelot]

The site is using AJAX thats why you cant see it.  If you want to use AJAX instead of using a page refresh how can you can around the above issue?

Good idea with the category specific content.

Any other recommendations welcome

[DougRoberts]

I'd be concerned that your javascript/ajax loader for the search results is going to hide the actual content from search engines. No point even worrying about the page navigation on these category pages if the content is invisible!

Use webmaster tools to take a look at how googlebot is going to see your site.

Just looking at the source of the page I can't see any mention of the content just the "

" placeholder.

I can't see the page navigation either.

Going forward I'd also try to get some more rich category specific content on the first page of each category...