Various blogs say this is the place to post questions regarding Google's new AJAX specs...
We have successfully (almost) implemented the steps detailed in the new guide "Making AJAX Applications Crawlable" at http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/specification.html Google has started indexing our pages and is following links with the #! and calling our HTML snapshot successfully with _escaped_fragment. Our question is regarding the newly submitted sitemaps. In following the sitemap question in the FAQ, it says that sitemaps should be submitted with URL's like this: Your Sitemap should include the version you prefer to have displayed in search results, so it should be http://example.com/ajax.html#!foo=123 (as opposed to using _escaped_fragment in the sitemap). We have done this and submitted sitemaps which have been accepted into webmaster tools. After a couple of days, webmaster tools is reporting errors/warnings that say: URLs not followed When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of redirecting to another URL. And the example shown as the error is "http://www.yoursite.com/"; - however this URL does not exist anywhere in our sitemap - our sitemap is full of correct URL's (similar to what are already showing up in the index as being crawled) - that look like this: http://www.yoursite.com/#!artist/madonna http://www.yoursite.com/#1release/milesaway and so on. These are valid and unique URL's that adhere to the standard in the guide above, they can be followed, and they generate the correct AJAX display when called with #! and the correct html snapshot when called with _escaped_fragment. So why does webmaster tools think these URL's have errors or are redirecting? They DO redirect only to the html snapshot, of course... and following the URL's in the sitemap with Google's fetch as googlebot (replacing the #! with _escaped_fragment) says the pages are fine. So what do we need to do with the sitemap? Is the issue that there isn't a page in the sitemap? Example: http://www.yoursite.com/default.html#!artist/madonna should be the same as http://www.yoursite.com/#!artist/madonna we just don't like to put the default.html in all our URL's, as this is a dynamic site, all the pages of course exist on the same page. Any advice on the above would be appreciated. 1 - does google's sitemap verifier not yet understand that google is supposed to be checking for #! and following them (allowing redirect) instead of dropping everything after the # (which seems like is happening) or... 2 - does the sitemap verifier want to see the actual page (default.html) in the URL before the dynamic values (#! and so on.) Thank you, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
