SEO and Seaside

[Richard Eng]

Is Seaside/Squeak SEO-friendly? My website isn't showing up in any  
search results on Google, Yahoo!, or MSN. Apparently, spiders have a  
hard time scanning my website. Perhaps because of the "dynamic" nature  
of the application?

Thanks,
Richard
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[Philippe Marschall]

2008/5/12, Richard Eng <richard.eng@...>:
> Is Seaside/Squeak SEO-friendly?

No, in general anything that requires a session is not.

> My website isn't showing up in any search
> results on Google, Yahoo!, or MSN.

Due to the sheer market share you can afford to concentrate on Google
only. To get more feedback register for Google Webmaster Tools:
www.google.com/webmasters/tools

> Apparently, spiders have a hard time
> scanning my website. Perhaps because of the "dynamic" nature of the
> application?

Very likely, remember each search result must be "linkable"

Cheers
Philippe
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[Lukas Renggli]

> > Is Seaside/Squeak SEO-friendly?
>
> No, in general anything that requires a session is not.

It can be made SEO-friendly though. See Pier with examples like
seaside.st, lukas-renggli.ch, etc.

Lukas

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[Richard Eng]

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I'm having great difficulty loading Pier from SqueakMap. Lots of errors. Whatever portion I have successfully loaded, I've had a cursory look at, and it's very complicated. It would seem that it'll take me months to understand the Pier code.

 

Is it possible to give me a few pointers that can quickly get me to what I need to know? I don't have that much time and resources to go wading through Pier just to figure out how to make my app SEO-friendly.

 

Thanks,

Richard

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[Lukas Renggli]

> I'm having great difficulty loading Pier from SqueakMap. Lots of errors.
> Whatever portion I have successfully loaded, I've had a cursory look at, and
> it's very complicated. It would seem that it'll take me months to understand
> the Pier code.

Try the one-click image or start from a fresh 3.9 image, that usually
works without problems.

> Is it possible to give me a few pointers that can quickly get me to what I
> need to know? I don't have that much time and resources to go wading through
> Pier just to figure out how to make my app SEO-friendly.

Have a look at #updateRoot: and #initialRequest: of WABrowser that
comes with Seaside. This is simpler.

What I wanted to point out with Pier is that the web-sites are
properly indexed by Google. The implementation is obscure indeed,
because I have to keep backward comparability with existing code.

Lukas

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[Richard Eng]

When I try to load Pier into a fresh Squeak 3.9-7067 image, I always get a
warning that I need MADelegatorAccessor. I don't know where to get this
from, so I just proceed anyway. Then I get all kinds of errors.

I tried loading Magritte first but it didn't help.

Richard

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[Lukas Renggli]

> When I try to load Pier into a fresh Squeak 3.9-7067 image, I always get a
> warning that I need MADelegatorAccessor. I don't know where to get this
> from, so I just proceed anyway. Then I get all kinds of errors.
>
>  I tried loading Magritte first but it didn't help.

There is something wrong with the package dependencies. I fixed that.
Ensure that you clear the cache (remove the sm-folder) before opening
the image and that you "update the map from the net" before loading
"Pier".

Although SqueakMap works here, I suggest to load from
PackageUniverses. This is usually more likely to get the dependencies
right.

Lukas

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