700 Google Crawl Errors caused by AJAX?

Question

I added a new feature to a site recently, which uses AJAX to load Log-in and Registration panels.

After uploading I got tons of Google Crawl Errors, nearly 700!

The error URL doesn't appear anywhere in the source of the page, except as the URL used by a jQuery .load() function.

Could it be that Google is trying to crawl the URL being used by my JavaScript code?

Answer 1

Check out this page from the Google Docs http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174993 It gives you some ideas about ajax and how to prevent the bot from messing with your ajax stuff. Specifically the "What if my site has some hash fragment URLs that should not be crawled?" question.