How to make AJAX application searchable by Search Engines?

Question

I have some questions about search engines. If I have an AJAX web page that uses HTTPRequest to fetch XML data and in turn processes and formats the response data and outputs it on screen dynamically through the DOM appendChild approach, will search engines like Google pick up the pages properly? For example, http://somedomain.com/someProduct?id=1234 links to an AJAX page that will internally make an HTTPRequest service call to a separate URL to fetch the XML data of a product whose ID is 1234 and when the XMLResponse comes back, the AJAX script will generate and populate the page on the fly locally. In that case, will Google still be able to associate the link with the information of the product that is now printed locally on the page?

If not, is there any solution or workaround? Because my AJAX web application is doing MORE manipulations than just printing the result out on the page, outputting the content on the server-side using technologies like PHP will not satisfy the need.

Answer 1

where there's a programmer... there's a way!

since the content is xml, it can be indexed by the search engines just like regular flat html... the trick is how to tell the engines to look there!

if your main page has a