Examples of e-commerce sites using ajax faceted navigation?
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Does anyone have examples of e-commerce sites successfully using ajax to power faceted navigation?
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I was really looking for examples but thanks for the response anyway.
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By successfully I mean using it and getting everything crawled properly.
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I have often thought of the same idea of hinding the ajax faceted nav, and haveing a SE friendly alternitive, but then you have the problem of the wrong pages geting ranking, people will come to the site though your static pages missing you elegant UI.
Another thing is, that things do not stay the same, and you now have baggage to carry forward.
If you have the time and the passion to keep it up that great, but I like to make my life simple.
I have hundreds of Visual Studio projects repersenting great inspirational ideas, that never got finished.
What platform do you develop in by the way.
I have come to love ASP.MVC -
Disclaimer: The site I'm referencing is not live yet, but may be relevant to this question.
Welcome to my favorite SEO topic of 2011. I'm about 60-90 days out from debuting an SEO-friendly/AJAX faceted navigated ecommerce site and it has been a wild ride. After doing some technical wheelies and wiping out due to unsuspected gusts of wind (sorry for being overly metaphorical), I ended up crafting a hybrid site that doesn't attempt to give the spiders access to AJAX. Instead, we have a standard text-link navigational structure (for SEO) that is visually de-emphasized.. with AJAX as the emphasized interface (for UI). If you succeed in an AJAX interface that offers SEO-control, I would like a spot in your dojo, sensei.
Again, if this question wasn't meant to aid you in development and you just want some examples, my apologies.
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Not off hand, but what do you mean by successfully?
You mean it works well, or successfully in terms of SEO, i can do the first for you, but the latter is real challenging, I often go to sleep thinking of this problem.In a intranet or authenticated admin site this works well, looks good, and gives a good user exsprience, but on a public facing website, plain of html works best for SEO.
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