Google Will Render AJAX & Stop Using Old AJAX Crawling Scheme
Raybahadursinh champavat
Assistant digital marketing manager at The Kunvarji Group
A couple months ago, Google hinted they would stop crawling and indexing content from the old AJAX crawling scheme, which was technically deprecated two years ago.
Well, that day is coming in the second quarter of 2018 says Google's John Mueller on the Google blog. John wrote:
As a reminder, the AJAX crawling scheme accepts pages with either a "#!" in the URL or a "fragment meta tag" on them, and then crawls them with an "?_escaped_fragment_=" in the URL. That escaped version needs to be a fully-rendered and/or equivalent version of the page, created by the website itself.With this change, Googlebot will render the #! URL directly, making it unnecessary for the website owner to provide a rendered version of the page. We'll continue to support these URLs in our search results.
We expect that most AJAX-crawling websites won't see significant changes with this update. Webmasters can double-check their pages as detailed below, and we'll be sending notifications to any sites with potential issues.