The Best Code to use HTML or Ajax?

Hi, I am trying to find out what is the best code to use when designing my website for SEO.... I have an option of HTML or Ajax... What is the best and what is teh benifit for SEO.

Many thanks

G

Google's 'bots (and others) don't "read" javascript (recently they are reputed to be able to read the very basic stuff).

With HTML there are no such problems.

As to which is best- it depends what you do with it!
If you make sure that everything you want the SE's to see is available outside of Java (or that anything you do NOT want them to see is not) then Ajax will be fine.

I understand a problem with Ajax sites is the url string stays the same from page to page. This would be a problem, seo-wise.

I have tested both recently.

Look in the testing thread at the bottom of the threads page.

Some basic javascript including links can be read.

Sites built with AJAX navigation can't be followed.
I tried various methods to get AJAX content indexed and none of the methods worked.

There are some guide lines I can give for how best to SEO a predominantly AJAX site.

NOTE: AJAX and HTML are not alternatives. AJAX manimpulates and out puts HTML to the browser. At the end of the day if its not HTML or XHTML you aint looking at it on a web browser! (text/pdf or any other extension aside of course)