: Does Google crawl and index AJAX on HTTPS sites? We made transitioned out website to HTTPS. We also now use nearly AJAX to load almost all the content. Therefore all URLs of existing pages
We made transitioned out website to HTTPS. We also now use nearly AJAX to load almost all the content. Therefore all URLs of existing pages have changed. We used 301 redirects as recommended and we have implemented Google's crawlable AJAX specification.
We thought that maybe our rankings be worse for a month and then they would recover. Google's search results are still much worse for us than before these changes. Most of the content (artist profiles) isn't indexed anymore. For example, in the submitted sitemap only 3 of 450 URLs are indexed. Before the changes, almost all URLs were indexed.
Does Google's AJAX crawling and indexing work together with HTTPS? It looks like it should work, because I see Googlebot active in my server logs.
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Search engines generally do not index pages served over SSL or crawl Ajax/JavaScript powered content (the exception being Google's crawlable Ajax standard). So by making this switch you've essentially committed SEO suicide. If you want traffic from the search engines you'll need to allow your content to be found without Ajax (which is just basic accessibility) and without encryption.
Search engines do crawl HTTPS pages and now Google may give additional weight to pages served over HTTPS.
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