: Is loading the article content using jQuery & AJAX bad for SEO? I am loading the content of main article using jQuery . Is it effective for SEO? Is it bad practice? For example I have a

@Jennifer507

Pushstate

You can use pushstate to dynamically change the url, so that your dynamic content is accessible and crawable. So if the user browses article2, you can update the title and url to article2. Pushstate will maintain browser history.
example.com/article/1 -> this will go to article1 example.com/article/2 -> this will go to article2


Here is a good article by bing regarding pushstate
blogs.bing.com/webmaster/2013/03/21/search-engine-optimization-best-practices-for-ajax-urls/
You can also see a sample website using pushstate()
html5.gingerhost.com/
Check content is proper for google bot

You can change your user agent in chrome developers tool to Googlebot and check if the content is being viewed properly.

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@Samaraweera270

How to achieve SEO for XHTML pages which load data in DOM using a JQuery-AJAX service calls?


You can load any data with Ajax call. For example, this
site changes the title of all
pages (it could be a meta tag too) with JavaScript and Google indexes
them
correctly.
This site uses the "escaped URL fragments" method to be indexed.


Edit: if you click through in the link you posted, you'll find the reason it's deprecated and on that page is this:


Times have changed. Today, as long as you're not blocking Googlebot from crawling your JavaScript or CSS files, we are generally able to render and understand your web pages like modern browsers


Edit2: AJAX isn't bad for SEO, but I'd consider rewriting those links. /article/id/title-of-the article or something similar is a lot better than ariticle?seid=14.

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