Why are URLs like www.site.com/#something being indexed?

[wiredseo]

So, everything after a hash (#) is not supposed to be crawled and indexed.  Has that changed?

I see a clients site with all sorts of URLs indexed like ...

http://www.website.com/#!category/c11f

For the above URL, I thought it was the same as simply http://www.website.com/.  But they aren't, they're getting indexed and all the content on the pages with these hash tags are getting crawled as well.

Thanks!

[kirube]

Hi -

Hash Exclamation (#!) is a signal sent to google that the page (or section of the page) is coded using AJAX and that there are elements hidden that needs a ajax functionality to be called for google to see all the crawlable links.

You can find more information regarding it here -

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en

K

[wiredseo]

Thanks - I was not aware of that.