jQuery .load seo friendly for google spiders?

[bulevardi]

I have a question regarding SEO, when you use the .load functionality in jQuery.

You can load a document by referring to the href value of the link you clicked.
In this first case, the folder name where the html documents are stored (../ajax/) is mentioned in the <a> tag, not in jQuery:

<a href="ajax/test.html">test</a>

var thelink = $(this).attr('href');
$('#content').load(thelink);

Or you can load a document by adding the folder name of your html documents in your jQuery and not in your <a> tag.

<a href="test.html">test</a>

$('#content').load('ajax/test.html');

I wonder which method is the most seo friendly.
I now use the first example, but I noticed that the google spiders stop at my navigation, and don't go further to the other pages of the site.
But I suppose if I try the second example, the google spiders stop aswel, because the target folder is not mentioned in the links...
I ask it before I change all my links to let google check it.

Anyone experience with this?

[Pullo]

Hi there,

The good news is that the Google search bot is able to execute AJAX to index content.
See here: https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/131425949597179904

I find it weird that method one is causing the bots to stop, but I don't think you have anything to lose by testing method two.
See also: http://www.google.com/search?q=search+bot+ajax

[bulevardi]

I now changed it to the second option, but I put all my html files in the same directory as where my index file is.
Google crawls it without errors now:


<a href="test.html">test</a>

$('#content').load('test.html');