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I have a static website which uses async jQuery to generate articles (as well as titles and other metadata) sourced from a file (something like $('main').load('/data #location.pathname')). The only problem seems to be that Google cannot accurately read these pages, as Google Search just returns the default title and description (even though the Google Search Console crawler bot seems to preview them fine). I've tried to look through Google's AJAX docs but they have been marked as deprecated for a few years and I can't find any superceding documentation. How can I get Google to properly index these pages?

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  • By "the Google Search Console crawler bot' do you mean the "inspect URL tool" including the "live test"?
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Mar 14, 2020 at 21:17
  • How long have the pages been on your site?
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Mar 14, 2020 at 21:18
  • Are you using a single page application framework such as React or Angular? If so have you looked into server side rendering? It is always riskier for SEO to use AJAX compared to putting the data directly into the HTML for the file. Googlebot does execute JavaScript now, but relying on JS for rendering can introduce crawler errors and delays.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Mar 14, 2020 at 21:20
  • 1) Yes 2) Around a week; I've seen the links be updated in Google, with the errors still in place 3) No, just JS and jQuery
    – Nixinova
    Mar 15, 2020 at 2:18
  • Alright, it looked like I wouldn't be able to do this, so instead I made /data/content import the page layout from /article instead of /article importing the article content from /data#content.
    – Nixinova
    Mar 15, 2020 at 3:27

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