: Are search engines able to index this injected content? Ans - Yes & No. No: If you inject the content by just changing the hashtag, then no the crawler won't be able to index

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are search engines able to index this injected content?


Ans - Yes & No.

No: If you inject the content by just changing the hashtag, then no the crawler won't be able to index the content. These normal hashtags were meant for same page navigation(much before the advent of AJAX) and not for changing the state of the page. So, in order to prevent re-indexing of the same pages several times, the crawlers were intentionally programmed to ignore everything after the hashtag in the url.

Yes: you have two work-arounds:


Using Hashbangs/Shebangs instead of normal hashtags to change the url
Using push-state


As far as SEO is concerned, both the work-arounds/solutions work equally well if implemented correctly. But which of the two is better apart from SEO is another discussion.

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