[thelist] Relationship between one-page HTML / jQuery app and crawlable pages

[Renoir B.]

My advice on this concept:

Always have a full page version of everything even modal.

Technically all you then need to do is on the views you know that will be
called as xmlhttprequest to NOT use the full version.

As an example that I am doing in my project using symfony2, Twig (a
template engine) serves a different template.

See: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/recipes.html

Otherwise it can be a known node singleton that every page in the lightbox
can extract from and be appended into.

Best regards
On Jan 15, 2013 12:32 PM, "Jason Handby" <jason.handby at corestar.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I'm building a 'one-page' HTML / jQuery application. I'm using
> client-side jQuery to read data about farm animals from an XML file and
> to set up corresponding thumbnails on the page. Clicking a thumbnail
> will open a lightbox containing appropriate content - for example,
> clicking the "ducks" thumbnail will open a lightbox containing
> information and pictures about ducks.
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> Suppose I have a user who I know loves ducks - I can email them a URL
> that will take them straight to the open ducks lightbox - something like
> this: http://www.myapp.com/?ducks .
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> All good so far. But I also need to provide crawlable links for SEO
> purposes.
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> I'm assuming I'll need to do something like this:
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> -        create http://www.myapp.com/ducks/default.html static HTML
> page, full of interesting information / keywords about ducks (supplied
> by the SEO people)
>
> -        in that page, put a Javascript redirect to
> http://www.myapp.com/?ducks to actually get my one page app to run and
> then show the ducks lightbox when that page gets visited by a person
>
> -        link to it from http://www.myapp.com/ so that it gets crawled.
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> for everything I want to be crawlable (ducks, geese, sheep...).
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> A few other thoughts:
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> I know I can use HTML5 pushState() to disguise
> http://www.myapp.com/?ducks as http://www.myapp.com/ducks , but I don't
> think I care about this as I don't mind people seeing  the '?' version
> of the link once they arrive.
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> I'm trying to avoid using any server-side technology if possible, as
> nothing else in this project requires it.
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> No, the actual project isn't really about farm animals :)
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> >From the SEO point of view, am I going about this the right way? Is
> there an easier way to do this (as obviously I'd prefer not to create a
> bunch of static pages, given that everything else is data-driven)? Any
> comments or suggestions?
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> Many thanks in advance
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> Jason
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