Re: Can't get Google Crawler to index my GWT-based site no matter what I do. Help!

On Sunday, October 28, 2012 7:28:05 AM UTC-7, ant...@gmail.com wrote:

Your URLs could be further improved if you go through the proposal in 

http://carlosaguayo.posterous.com/html5-history-in-gwt

Was i in your position, i would do the above and then generate a sitemap.xml for search engine submittion

Antonios [dot] Chalkiopoulos [at] keepitcloud [dot] com

Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I presume you are suggesting I get rid of the hash-bang entirely from my URLs. I didn't know that was possible yet (apparently the HTML5 History API permits this; thanks for pointing that out to me). However, by doing that, Google would no longer consider my site an "ajax site". I am following the ajax crawlability guidelines they document here. So when they send the special query parameter (_escaped_fragment_) my server knows that it should generate and return an HTML snapshot of whatever page/gwt-place is being crawled.

If I removed the hash-bang, google would no longer send the _escaped_fragment_ query parameter with their crawl requests and it would be near-impossible for me to know when I should generate a snapshot versus just returning the normal content.

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