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Asked: 2026-05-27T16:53:51+00:00

I read somewhere about how you can create a website that loads each section

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I read somewhere about how you can create a website that loads each section of a page with AJAX while still providing SEO. It had something to do with the use of !# in a url. Similar to what twitter does. I can’t seem to find anything about it anywhere. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

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    #! is called a “hashbang” and they are the root of all that is evil in web development.

    Basically, weak web developers decided to use #anchor names as a kludgy hack to get “web 2.0” things to work on their page, then complained to google that their page rank suffered. Google made a work around to their kludge by enabling the hashbang.

    Weak web developers took this work around as gospel. Don’t use it. It is a crutch.

    Web development that depends on hashbangs is web-development done wrong.

    This article is far more well worded than I could ever be, and deals with the Gawker media fiasco from their migration to a (failed) hashbang centric website. It tells you WHAT is happening and why it’s bad.

    http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs

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