: Google only index main page My site is a single page application built using AngularJS. My aim is to make it crawl-able (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification). This
My site is a single page application built using AngularJS. My aim is to make it crawl-able (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification).
This is what I have been using:-
Pages without hash fragments
AngularJS configured to use HTML5 URLs
<meta name="fragment" content="!" /> inserted to the head
As mentioned in the specification, using the above method, crawler is able to read my URL,
domainname.com as domainname.com?_escaped_fragment_=
My URL looks like this:
http;//www.domainname.com/about
Forwarded the request if request include _escaped_fragment_ to my htmlfiles directory
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /htmlfiles/index.html? [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=/?(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /htmlfiles/%1.html? [NC,L]
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ / [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
With the above rewrites desired html files were able to be obtained as follows:-
domainname.com?_escaped_fragment_= receives domainname.com/htmlfiles/index.html
and
domainname.com/?_escaped_fragment_=about receives domainname.com/htmlfiles/about.html
Note: these tests were carried out by disabling javascript on browser
The sitemap submitted to Google is as shown:
<url>
<loc>http://www.domainname.com/</loc>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.domainname.com/about</loc>
</url>
Problem
What Google did is that it only index my main page domainname.com correctly.
However it does not index other pages, in this case, domainname.com/about.
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It's impossible to tell without looking at your site, but I think you're using the AJAX crawling scheme incorrectly.
If you have example.com/about and add the fragment meta tag to that page (so when you curl example.com/about it returns the meta tag in the response), then the URL that would be fetched for indexing would be example.com/about?_escaped_fragment_= , not example.com/?_escaped_fragment_=about .
Consider using HTML5, CSS3, and pushstate. Here are a few resources and examples:
html5.gingerhost.com/ http://www.ocpsoft.org/java/seo-friendly-angularjs-with-html5-pushstate-rewrite-and-twelve-lines-of-code/
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