Question

This is my jQuery

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#name').load('file.php?query=<?php echo urlencode($query); ?>', function() {
    $('#loading').hide();
  });
});

after the initial html loads it then loads the content from file.php into the div with the id=name. this enalbes me to show a loading image while the slow moving content loads. its slow because it uses a few different json apis to get its content. now, file.php has a bunch of different links on it. will google follow those links to other pages. or will google only follow the links on the initial loading of the webpages html?

i ask this because the dynamically loaded content loaded with jquery doesn show up in the webpages source code when i look at it with my browser.

Answer 1

No Google will not see that content. Google does not run any client side javascript, so the content above will never be loaded.

• Use Google Webmaster tools fetch as Googlebot to see what Google sees
• http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=158587
• Visit Google page to find out how to make your ajax applications crawlable (see Cymen comment above).
• https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/