Google has just completed (I saw the page refresh in front of me right now) JavaScript indexing. Which is cool since I no longer need all my tooling for that. Google will now execute JavaScript - the SEO JavaScript problem is solved. So far - awesome.
However, I have a bunch of pages I created for the old !#
fragment scheme. These pages have been indexed until now, and I intend to keep serving them for old (IE7-) browsers. The newer SPA pages contain more graphic and less textual information.
_escaped_fragment_=
or the new way with JavaScript?Are there any adaptions I need to make to my existing apps in light of this change?
Quick Answer: No.
The JavaScript support is not new. They just announced it and have provided a tool in GWT to view how it renders.
They are mainly talking about rendering by executing JavaScript and not about crawling, however it is related.
Google will probably look at the rendered page for links. So what do your links look like? Do they still use the #! ? If so, Google will still follow that link and index via your _escaped_fragment_ URL.
The only real difference is that we can assume Google is getting better at finding those links in JavaScript, so we don't have to provide alternate ways for them to be discovered.
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