Can Google bypass an AJAX link?

[MJTrevens]

On my company's events calendar page when you click an event, it populates and overlay using AJAX, and then the link that is populated in that overlay then takes you to the actual events page.

I see this as a problem with Google because it can't follow the AJAX link to the true event page, so right now nothing on those pages is getting indexed and we can't utilize our schema to get events to populate in the Google rich snippets or the knowledge graph.

Possible solutions I considered:

1. Remove the AJAX overlay and allow the link from the events calendar to go directly to the individual event.

2. Leave the AJAX overlay and try to get the individual event pages directly indexed in Google.

Thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated!

[mikeyqu]

Hey there!

I can't really take credit for this, but I found a Moz post from a while ago that might be helpful to you:

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-allow-google-to-crawl-ajax-content

Rob also links to a more recent article that he wrote on the subject that offered another solution. Hope that helps!

Thanks!

Mike