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How can I verify that my AJAX crawling settings are working

I tried to do fetch as Google with this URL /54.86.51.30/search-space-for-rent/Houston#! and I got this from result enter image description here

And on the server log I see google accessed my site with this url "/54.86.51.30/search-space-for-rent/Houston" instead of "/54.86.51.30/search-space-for-rent/Houston?_escaped_fragment_="

But If i do fetch as Google for this url /54.86.51.30/search-space-for-rent/Houston?_escaped_fragment_= than I do get HTMLsnapshot of my page. enter image description here

Why I am not getting HTML Snapshot for /54.86.51.30/search-space-for-rent/Houston#! as It does have "#!" at the end

Solution

  • This is because google has changed the "fetch as google" works some time around May/June 2014. You need to rewrite your pretty url yourself, exactly as you did it above. I am a bit disappointed that google has dropped this feature, but found a good alternative to test my hashbang urls and that is Facebook debug tool.