aakk9999 - 4:02 am on Oct 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Ask yourself - how will your current AJAX implementation be seen in relation to Google's attempts to subdivide pages into named fragments?

Interesting thought...

Perhaps Google can distinguish between # where the reference is to an anchor within the same page (which, from what I have seen, are the cases where page fragments were shown as "Jump to" links in SERPS snippet), from # where there is a request to get some part of the page content from the server by using AJAX.

With AJAX pages being indexed, I would imagine that this would not be a "jump to a page fragment", instead it would appear as URL in its own right (including #!etc) in SERPS.

Maybe Google should allocate another "test data centre" like Caffeine to webmaster community before they put these changes live as if it ends up with bugs then who knows what this could do to SERPS, to both, sites not using AJAX (influx of new indexed content), and sites using AJAX (could suddenly trip various filters owing to all the new site content suddenly being indexed).

Or should the SEO strategy for AJAX sites be "add ! to # little by little and see the impact on your site ranking..."