JavaScript, noscript & SEO

[esnc]

we used massive amount of JavaScript & AJAX for a website which we send data through JSON to JavaScript and it creates HTML page on user browser.

We have created an alternative Fully HTML pages with most SEO methods, which redirects non or disabled JavaScript browsers by following HTML tags to these HTML pages

<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=URL address/?html=y" >
</noscript>

this works great for above mentioned browsers but i want to know that, does it work same for crawlers, spiders,....?
does it redirect them to our HTML pages?

if not what is the solution? or are there any better solution?

thanks

 

[angilina]

Google suggest that we use text browser like: Lynx; to see our site as it show the site in a way that search engines see it. I think you should use this browser to check your site.

 

[nielsencl]

Without seeing your site, I would just add at least one link to your HTML version of the site and let the spiders find it.

I don't think they will follow that meta tag, and you really don't want to do redirects like that because it is not clear you are not doing it for spam reasons.

I think what you have is ok, but using some PHP to detect a non-Javascript user might be better since there will be no redirect code in the page that can be seen.

So, I would have links in your page that robots can follow to your HTML version of the site, they can index your main site if they can, and see if you can find a better way to redirect the non-javascript users.