I have recently read Google's Making AJAX Applications Crawlable as I was wondering how to correctly prepare my dynamic site, which uses hashbang navigation, for SEO.
I understand now that for mysite.com/#!/foobar I should serve an equivalent html snapshot at mysite.com/?_escaped_fragment_=foobar.
I just want to know if google then correctly indexes my page as http://example.com/#!/foobar
or if it uses this escaped_fragment url? I'm assuming (but would like to be sure) it will correctly use my hashbang url for the search results but that the indexed content was taken from the escaped_fragment page.
Some confirmation would help me sleep better. thanks
By default, google will create escaped_fragment url for your page. That could end up looking ugly.
You should redirect escaped_fragment url to a page page with a prettier url using 301
Say your server gets a URL request from googlebot/any hashbang compliant crawler such as "targetPage?_escaped_fragment_=command=play%26id=4ee7af"
You should have your targetPage accepts targetPage?_escaped_fragment_= .... and created a 301 redirect to itself as "targetPage?command=play&id=4ee7af" ( or any other pretty url as long as it is to the same page)
If you were using J2EE you could create a servlet filter to intercept and 301 redirect to cleaner url of the same page.