Googlebot doesn't see jquery generated content

Question

I use jQuery to retrieve content from the database with a json request. It then replaces a wildcard in the HTML (like %title%) with the actual content. This works great and

Answer 1

Google appears to have a near-fully or fully functional javascript-crawling bot at the time of this answer:

• In 2009 Google proposed a solution for making AJAX crawlable: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax-crawlable.html

• In 2015 Google deprecated the above approach: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html

• I have successfully built multiple single page applications that are correctly rendered in Google's Webmaster tools.

• There are lots of resources on the web if you want to dive deeper:

  • http://searchengineland.com/can-now-trust-google-crawl-ajax-sites-235267
  • http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157
  • https://www.google.com/webhp?q=does+google+index+angular+single+page+apps