: Do pushState and popState affect SEO? I was creating my own Ajax-based website which means almost all of my data will be fetched via Ajax from the server and I started to have concerns about

@Eichhorn148

PushState can be used in SEO friendly ways. Google's Matt Cutts even recommends it compared to hash bang AJAX crawl syntax: www.seroundtable.com/google-ajax-pushstate-vs-hashbang-16464.html
One technique that works well is:


Put normal URIs in the <a href=""> links
Have JavaScript that intercepts clicks and loads content via AJAX and then uses push state to change the URL
Crawlers just follow the links and ignore the JavaScript


That way, users get the AJAX experience and crawlers are still able to access the entire site.

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@Cofer257

You should set up your site so that it will work without JavaScript. Although Google understands JavaScript quite well, it's not perfect and other search engines (and users) may not use JS.

You should make each link point to a specific URL. If that URL is requested directly, the server would return the complete HTML for that page.

Then your JavaScript can just add events to the links, load the appropriate content and "push the state" to change the URL for users with JS.

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