ajax-solr: How to make an ajax page readable by Google?

Question

I am using ajax-solr to generate search results from Solr.

Is there any way to make such an ajax page available to Google (and search engines in general) for indexing?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Not sure how this maps to ajax-solr specifically, but take a look at "Making AJAX Applications Crawlable", it explains how googlebot can crawl and index ajax websites.

Still, I think the safest way is to implement graceful degradation of ajax functions, unfortunately I don't think this is doable in a pure ajax-solr site.

Answer 2

I think the easiest solution is to use Google Sitemaps and create alternative representations of the Solr database's contents (i.e. have one URL for each document in the Solr database). In other words, don't try to make make the ajax-solr page indexable by Google.