Hi Ian,

Are you talking about using Ajaxcrawling (
http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling) or some other way ?. Can you give
details on what are you doing for this or any link which will provide
details ?

- Abdullah

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Ian Bambury <ianbamb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Have to disagree with you, Sri.
>
> It is simple to create SEO-friendly content-driven web sites with GWT used
> just for navigation and history. There is no need for a recompile if content
> changes. I'm working on one like that right now.
>
> If you design it properly, then you don't even need to recompile to add
> pages to your GWT-driven menu system and without too much trouble, you can
> even have an SE-friendly site with the information held in a database.
>
> Ian
>
> http://examples.roughian.com
>
>
>
> On 2 April 2010 16:19, Sripathi Krishnan <sripathikrish...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Entire website in GWT, yes/no ?
>>>
>> I would say no.
>>
>> There are two types of websites -
>>
>>    - *Content driven* - which share information. Think blogs, corporate
>>    websites, forums etc. SEO is usually important. And content is almost 
>> always
>>    delivered over http.
>>    - *Interaction driven* - in which the user and site interact closely,
>>    typically involving ajax. Think web apps like gmail, google docs, 
>> facebook.
>>    Here, the content is usually specific to a user, and is typically 
>> delivered
>>    after login. So, you'd want https, and wouldn't care much about SEO.
>>
>> You can build both kinds of websites with GWT, but it really is suited for
>> the interactive web-apps. For content-driven websites, GWT is an overkill.
>> You have to do a lot of extra work to make it SEO friendly. Modifying
>> content will require a re-build, which gets bugging after a point. There are
>> ways to get around these limitations, but its just not worth it.
>>
>> I would recommend you split your website into two parts along the above
>> lines. For the website portion, use whatever technology you are familiar
>> with, make it SEO friendly, and deliver it over http. For the interactive
>> portion, use GWT. That way, you get best of both worlds.
>>
>> --Sri
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2 April 2010 19:29, Katharina Probst <kpro...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Abdullah,
>>>
>>> to make your app searchable, you may also want to consider looking at
>>> http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling. (Note that this only works for
>>> Google right now).
>>>
>>> kathrin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Abdullah Shaikh <
>>> abdullah.shaik...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I am planning to have my entire website in GWT, but there a few issues,
>>>> for which I would like to have your suggestions on.
>>>>
>>>> 1) The site should be searchable (SEO)
>>>>
>>>> 2) I would need to switch between Http/Https depending on the input I
>>>> will be taking from the user
>>>>
>>>> Any idea how to achieve this ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The other thing I have in mind is, I go with plain html approach, that
>>>> is use jsp/ftl, put the content there, and have the gwt application in the
>>>> same jsp/ftl file and fetch the data using DOM to display it in GWT UI, 
>>>> this
>>>> way the content will be searchable.
>>>>
>>>> Is the above approach good or is there any issues with ? also I would
>>>> need to have multiple gwt applications using this approach for each & every
>>>> page where I need got user interactivity & UI.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>>
>>>> - Abdullah
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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-tool...@googlegroups.com.
>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
>>>> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>
>>>> .
>>>> For more options, visit this group at
>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  --
>>> 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<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>
>>> .
>>> For more options, visit this group at
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
>>>
>>
>>  --
>> 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-tool...@googlegroups.com.
>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
>> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>
>> .
>> For more options, visit this group at
>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
>>
>
>  --
> 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-tool...@googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>
> .
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
>

-- 
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-tool...@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.

Reply via email to