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At SMX East on Wednesday, Google set forth a proposal for crawling and indexing content that is dynamically created using AJAX. According to their research, as much as 70% of content on the web today is dynamically-generated (mostly through JavaScript), and this trend is only going to continue. So in an attempt to keep up [...]

Controversy has always surrounded the topic of having validated source code (XHTML or HTML), and whether it has any impact on search engine optimization. Here at SearchEnginePanel.com we are validated to W3C’s high standards of XHTML 1.0 Strict - a fairly difficult task to accomplish for most websites. Web developers who attempt validation normally settle [...]

There have been signs over the weekend that point to the crawling of JavaScript from Live Search’s bot, MSNBOT-MEDIA. The initial evidence was found as URLs for site feedback were getting crawled, and references to these URLs only existed from JavaScript files. The consequent feedback pages were also only accessible through JavaScript as well.
Upon further [...]

With 2008 quickly coming to an end, and this being our last post in the “search engine optimization” category for the year, I just thought that it would be a good time to compile a checklist of SEO concepts for you to reconsider and audit against your existing websites.

Keyword Research
Add any foreseeable emerging phrases or [...]

Every week I log into my Webmaster Tools account to look out for potential crawling or indexing issues with my sites. Usually, I will also check to see if the newer pages are getting indexed, as well as quickly look over whether any new links have been found. None of these sites are designed for [...]