AJAX SEO

AJAX SEO is crawlable framework for AJAX applications that applies the latest SEO standards, Page Speed and YSlow rules, Google HTML/CSS Style Guide, etc. to improve maximal performance, speed, accessibility and usability. The source code is build on latest Web technology, like HTML5, Microdata, PHP 5, etc.

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How to use

• Server requirements: Apache 2, PHP 5, MySQL 5
• Download the source code and extract on your web server
• Apply Apache settings from content/httpd.conf
• Apply PHP settings from content/php.ini or uncomment .htaccess php_flag and php_value
• Apply MySQL settings from content/connect.php
• For MySQL UPDATE use SET pubdate=NOW() to affected cache
• Add robots.txt and humans.txt in website root

Search engine optimization

• Schema.org Microdata markup
• HTML5 history API with crawlable SEO fallback for < IE10
• AJAX crawling scheme with Apache Rewrite, https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started
• Rewrite www to no-www domain, http://no-www.org
• Handle HTTP/HTTPS protocol
• Slash and backslash issues
• Rewrite uppercase URLs to lowercase
• Rewrite space and underscore with dash
• Remove index.php and .php extension
• Remove dot and comma
• Custom 404 error page

Speed performance

• Performance tuning on Apache, PHP, MySQL
• Protocol-relative URL, http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
• jsPerf jQuery $.ajax() timeout vs window.setTimeout()
• jsPerf AJAX JSONP vs AJAX JSON
• jsPerf $.ajax() json vs $.getJSON()
• jsPerf document.title=data.title vs $('title').html(data.title)
• jsPerf encodeURIComponent() vs encodeURI()
• jsPerf decodeURI() vs decodeURIComponent()

Known bugs

• jQuery Address - rewrite /#/url to /#!/url
• W3C - CSS3 standards does not accept vendor prefixes

License

AJAX SEO is released under MIT license. jQuery and jQuery Address Plugin dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.