title: SEO implications of using jQuery to include extra content at page load
body: <p>I have a client who is planning to implement a new global navigation across hundreds of their domains.</p>
  
  <p>To keep this from being a content management nightmare, there is a single service which is going to serve the HTML content of this navigation.</p>
  
  <p>This service is called via jQuery AJAX call and the response inserted at the top of all of these sites when the page is loaded. So the only modification to the individual sites is the inclusion of the small javascript that binds the javascript request to the <code>$(document).ready()</code> event.</p>
  
  <p>They would like for the links contained in the navigation to help with their SEO. Is there any way to make this scheme SEO friendly? Or is it likely to work already? I've seen several references to the Googlebot starting to follow GET and even POST AJAX requests, but SEO is hardly my area of expertise.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> The new global navigation is from site to site ONLY. It does not affect the ability for each of the sites to be used. There are even cases (mobile, older browsers) where we may not show it at all. The main navigation for these sites is not in JavaScript. This is EXTRA navigation, to introduce users to the fact that there are other brands available (due to a merger).</p>