Main content - javascript/ajax
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Hi,
On most of our pages Javascript is displaying our main content, so it doesn't show up on the page source and I assume isn't being crawled by Google to the best of its ability.
It's also not showing up on MOZ's page grader and crawl results, making analysis and testing harder.
What's the easiest way, without having to completely redo our website, to have this content crawled by search engines and moz?
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Google's guide for AJAX crawling is here. This is a considerable amount of work though, and honestly I wouldn't recommend it. Google is getting better everyday at crawling JavaScript content. You can try to test whether it's indexing this content by doing some very specific Google searches for things only rendered by JavaScript, and seeing if your pages rank for those searches. If they do, there's a good chance that Google is reading and rendering your JavaScript properly. Even if they don't now, it's likely only a matter of time before they do.
I don't imagine that Rogerbot has an army of engineers at Moz trying to figure out how to render JavaScript outside of a browser, so I wouldn't expect this to come to Moz crawls anytime soon. I also doubt that Rogerbot would understand what's going on in Google's guide either, as I wouldn't expect many sites to have actually gone through this process.
Why is most of your main content generated by JavaScript? It sounds like you should be rendering some of this on the page in good ol fashioned HTML. A lot of times this doesn't require an entire redo of a website. It could just be a matter of loading some default HTML with the page, and then updating it with JavaScript, instead of rendering all of it with JavaScript. It would be easier to see if you share the site (if not, I understand).
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