(Entry was posted by Jon Dun on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/22/2016).

Ajax Crawling directive

A Quandry....

Let`s say a website (with 10 million+ pages) is struggling to get much of it`s content indexed due to JavaScript executing the HTML....

Let`s say that website IS NOT blocking Google from it`s JS files.

Now, given that Google say that Ajax Crawling directive (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started) is deprecated as Google can index the JavaScript, would it be a bad idea to advise the website uses a pre-render solution and the fragment meta tag to inform Google (given that it is "deprecated)?

I don`t see any other solution other than a) rebuild the site (which is out of the question) or b) do the above and use a deprecated method to present the alternative content.

Any thoughts please

Thanks?

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Jon Dunn: A Quandry....

Let's say a website (with 10 million+ pages) is struggling to get much of it's content indexed due to JavaScript executing the HTML....

Let's say that website IS NOT blocking Google from it's JS files.

Now, given that Google say that Ajax Crawling directive (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started) is deprecated as Google can index the JavaScript, would it be a bad idea to advise the website uses a pre-render solution and the fragment meta tag to inform Google (given that it is "deprecated)?

I don't see any other solution other than a) rebuild the site (which is out of the question) or b) do the above and use a deprecated method to present the alternative content.

Any thoughts please?

Thanks
Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this week's SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:37:42 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/ajax_crawling_directive +Jon Dunn

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