I'm stunned that most of you seem to believe that Google ignores XML pages
and you have to transform the XML server-side to feed the search engine.
For evidence of the contrary try the search:
staudinger site:free.pages.at filetype:xml
Manfred
From: Jesper Tverskov <jesper(_at_)tverskov(_dot_)dk>
1) Google is based on the source code, and will ignore your webpages.
From: Didier PH Martin <martind(_at_)netfolder(_dot_)com>
You said:
1) Google is based on the source code, and will ignore your webpages.
I reply:
Are you sure of that? How do you know? Is this confirmed by somebody else?
Don't get me wrong, I am just trying to find the truth, not attacking you.
From: Neil Williams <linux(_at_)codehelp(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Put this into Google: codehelp XML language syntax
The page you will get back has only a link to the HTML page. There is an XML
page, using browser-side XSLT to convert to XHTML but Google doesn't know
about that. If the HTML page had not been created for non-XML capable
browsers, Google would not know anything about it. For some time, I had some
example pages that only existed in XML. Those pages simply did not exist in
Google.
From: Nathan Young -X (natyoung - Artizen at Cisco)
<natyoung(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
Google doesn't authoritatively address how it treats pages that behave
this way, I suspect because it can be a very complicated issue. I have
heard rumors that the google crawler is starting to execute some types
of javascript as it indexes and so certain kinds of generated content
may get indexed now when they previously had not.
M. David Peterson <xmlhacker(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> to xsl-list
The rule of thumb? When possible (and in most cases it is) render the
HTML on the client. When not (as is the case for search engines --
yes, this is true -- Google, MSN, Yahoo!, etc... do not rendering your
XML data using the provided XSLT file. This means you need to do this
for them. When a reputable search engine makes a request, you simply
need to send them the prerendered HTML file.
Didier PH Martin <martind(_at_)netfolder(_dot_)com> to xsl-list
Hello Neil,
Good point and thank you for sharing your experiment with google.
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