In case it's any help to anyone, this is how I think I'll solve the indexing problem.
My wife has a web site on which she sells various things, the descriptions of which are stored in a database. I re-jigged her website as a way to learn GWT. She was quite keen to have the GWT version, but pretty peeved when I told her it would not be indexed by Google, hence my desire to solve the indexing problem. Currently, I have a cron job that re-creates a sitemap file each night with URLs of the form http://mysite/show_product.aspx?key=1234 etc, and the app is started from http://mysite/index.aspx. (Backend is currently using Mono). Using the GWT app, the cron job will now create a new index.html file which looks like: <html> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> window.location = "http://mysite/MyGWTApp";; </script> <noscript> some welcome blurb <a href="http://mysite/TextOnlyServlet?1234";></a> .... insert URL for every product we want indexed... </noscript> </body> </html> and the sitemap will now contain URLs like http://mysite/TextOnlyServlet?1234 etc. (These URLs probably don't need to be in index.html as the search bot should read the sitemap anyway). The TextOnlyServlet simply reads the product description from the database and sends an unformatted HTML document back to the browser which looks like: <html> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> window.location = "http://mysite/MyGWTApp#1234";; </script> <noscript> blurb for product 1234 read from database. Don't care about format, just the words </noscript> </body> </html> So if a person clicks on a Google search result, which will be a URL like http://mysite/TextOnlyServlet?1234, their browser will get the HTML above and should redirect to the GWT app, which uses the correct history token, and we're away. Certainly there is a small overhead in the unnecessary text HTML sent down the line, but hopefully once in the GWT app they will bookmark from within there, so next time around they just get the GWT app. I think this should work, and seems to me to be within the spirit of the Google Webmaster guidelines. Bryan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
