Is it possible to make JSON data readable by a Google spider?
Say for instance that I have a JSON feed that contains the data for an e-commerce site. This JSON data is used to populate a human-readable page in the users browser. (I.E. The translation from JSON data to human displayed page is done inside the users browser; not my choice, just what I’ve been given to work with, its an old legacy CGI application and not an actual server-side scripting language.)
My concern here is that, the google spiders will not be able to pickup/directly link to the item in question when a user clicks on it in google, being presented with an index page full of all the items, rather than being linked directly to the item they clicked on.
Is there anyway of “informing” the google spider in the JSON that what they should feed the user a different link?
You should make a wrapper page in server-side code around the JSON data, and respond to requests with either the wrapper or the regular version depending on the User-Agent.