Hey! I at least just found out how to make categories for my blog! Awesome! Ok, so now on to what I just learned that I thought was totally cool.

I’ve been reading about how search engines don’t spider JavaScript. That’s been sort of a meaningless, no-context, ho-hum statement to me. However, I just found this article on SitePoint that livened it up for me and suddenly transformed it into something that’s REALLY cool. The article is ‘Avoiding the 5 Most Common SEO Mistakes’ by Johnathon Smith. In the article, he provides a real-life example of a site that gathered hot “deals” from around the web and aggregated them in one place. It was a great site but because it was coded with JavaScript, no one was able to find it. What the author pointed out (which was brand new info for me) was that if the web developer had coded the same thing with a server side language such as PHP, the aggregating would take place on the server, leaving the page with spider-legible HTML. Now THAT’S a concrete example that brings it alive for me.