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Search Engine Optimization Follies

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

So, I’ve done it; I finally developed a site that was so off the wall it seems that google isn’t all that good at crawling it.

http://www.michiganhomesforeclosures.com is using a combination of .htaccess 404 tricks to generate dynamic content on the fly, which normally doesn’t cause a problem; however, when paired with purely javascript navigation it’s seems to keep google from recognizing the links at all.

With this site, there are several counties such as livingston county home foreclosures baked right in to the navigation that direct your browser to http://www.michiganhomesforeclosures.com/counties/livingston the same type of navigation is built in to visit cities, http://www.michiganhomesforeclosures.com/cities/Brighton for example brings up the foreclosure listings for Brighton Michigan, simple enough but with the code tricks I’ve used to make these things happen Google isn’t reading the pages.

I’ve been working on some new fixes that may solve the problem but you’ll have to check back to see how that goes.