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Can Google Crawl AJAX filters?
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Can Google crawl and render pages within Ajax Filters?
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Thanks Marcus, are there any other options other than an HTML Snapshot? This has been getting developer resistance.
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Yes and no. There are some special considerations for handling Ajax and there are other considerations beyond just crawling the navigation and discovering the pages on AJAX heavy sites.
This is worth a read:
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/learn-more
As is this:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en
Hope that helps
Marcus
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