Question

I have Backbone website. I’ve used phantomjs so that search engines can look up though the js links (#!/something), following the _escaped_fragment_spec. I’ve checked using google webtools, to see how google will look my site, and mostly everything seems correct.

However, the main page (ex: http://www.example.com; the one with no #! in the link), google does not send the _escaped_fragment_spec, so the page is not sent to phantomjs, and js are not applied, therefore google is looking to a nearly empty page.

Does anyone knows how to indicate this, or solve the problem?

Thanks

Edit:
According to google (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started)
You should add to head, however I’ve added it, and webtools – see as google, does not seam to be procesing the main page as javascript. Any help? The site with problems is http://www.boletus-app.com/
Thanks

Answer 1

The answer to this question was to use the fragment meta tag

<meta name="fragment" content="!">

This will force all pages including the home page to be requested with escaped fragments