Ajax Fragment Meta tag - Googlebot isn't reading the page's content Ajax Fragment Meta tag - Googlebot isn't reading the page's content ajax ajax

Ajax Fragment Meta tag - Googlebot isn't reading the page's content


How are you testing this? If you're using "Fetch as Google" read below.

Quote from http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/bZgWCJTnl08%5B1-25%5D by John Mueller (google employee)

Looking at your blog's homepage, one thing to keep in mind is that the Fetch as Googlebot feature does not parse the content that it fetches. So when you submit toddmoyer.net/blog/ , it fetches that URL. After fetching the URL, it doesn't parse it to check for the "fragment" meta tag, it just returns it to you. However, if you fetch toddmoyer.net/blog/#! , then it should rewrite the URL and fetch the URL toddmoyer.net/blog/?_escaped_fragment_= .

When we crawl and index your pages, we'll notice the meta-tag and act accordingly. It's just the Fetch as Googlebot feature that doesn't check for meta-tags, and instead just returns the raw content.

Hope that helps.