Where's all the text?
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Hi,
We recently (yesterday) had a developer make a new site for us on Wix http://www.appointeddhq.com/ as the one we were planning to put up had a few teething issues (the beackend booking system wasn't ready and we needed something up immediately for a TV show we were being featured in).
Having now had the chance to look through it, I'm not quite sure what's going on. None of the text appears to be there on any page, I can't find any of the descriptions we gave the developer, the alt tags behind pictures (and even the pics themselves) don't appear to be there, the URLs are messed up, titles are incorrect and there are no title tags to be found. Am I misunderstanding or is the whole site built in java?
Obviously, this is quite a huge issue and I'll want to get it sorted immediately, but I thought it best to see what the good folks here though.
Thanks!
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Thanks - I hadn't encountered this before so immediately panicked. Having spent the last several hours doing research I've calmed down a little and will work around as best I can Really appreciate the help!
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If you enter the following in Google:
site:appointeddhq.com
You'll see that there are 9 pages indexed by Google. Most of them seem to have filler text in the snippet at the moment.
It's worth a small PS that the URLs are packed with "hashbangs" (!#) which have mixed reviews at best for SEO.
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Reading up on it, Wix are adamant that the way they present content would not effect SEO performance ...
Then again, I am assuming it would make it quite difficult to optimise the content, include Rich Snippets, but I am not realyl sure as I never ever used Wix template ... and wont !
Though doing a search did present this
http://www.wix.com/support/forum/flash/other/other/navigation-link-in-escaped-fragment-version-of
Example site - www.wixexample.com1. Home Page - place ?escaped_fragment= at the end of your URLwww.wixexample.com/?escaped_fragment=
Example site - www.wixexample.com#!AboutUs/c24142. Individual pages - ?escaped_fragment= in place of the #!www.wixexample.com/?escaped_fragment=AboutUs/c2414
Example site - www.wixexample.com#!portfolio/vstc3=lifestyle 3. Individual pages with an = in the URL - ?escaped_fragment= in place of the #! AND change the = in the mini page URL to%3Dwww.wixexample.com/?escaped_fragment=portfolio/vstc3%3Dlifestyle
We can assure you that your individual pages are seen by Google.
Hope that helps
Regards
John
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Not yet, but I get the impression they weren't very good as they managed to down all emails from the domain while working on it and didn't even realise. Hopefully I'll be able to get some answers tomorrow. If HTML snapshots are being seen (though only by Google, nothing else it seems!) then that's at least better than nothing, but currently, it doesn't seem to be looking like that.
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No, it wouldn't be because of the rel canonical ...That would have nothing to do with redirects of any sort.
Have you spoke with the crowd that did your website
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Yeah, we can bring that up for the homepage, but every other example only brings up the original homepage. Do you think this is because the rel="canonical" is pointing back to the homepage on every page?
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I assume they find it here
http://www.appointeddhq.com/?escaped_fragment
I don't have any experience of Wix, or indeed ranking Ajax websites, maybe someone else can offer advice on ranking Ajax websites
Regards
J
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Thanks for the response - does this mean the search engines are actually finding the information properly in the form of an HTML snapshot?
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I would read this, this is WIX policy on content being crawled via Ajax.
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So does that mean we've lost all of the SEO benefits? I had thought Wix used HTML5 templates.
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You website is built with WIX, they use a standard format tempting system, and embeds all content with JS.
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