diff --git a/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb b/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb
index 5b34b1c08b..d6188abd14 100644
--- a/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ class TopicsController < ApplicationController
 
     anonymous_etag(@topic_view.topic) do
       redirect_to_correct_topic && return if slugs_do_not_match
+
+      # render workaround pseudo-static HTML page for old crawlers which ignores <noscript>
+      # (see http://meta.discourse.org/t/noscript-tag-and-some-search-engines/8078)
+      return render 'topics/plain', layout: false if (SiteSetting.enable_escaped_fragments && params.has_key?('_escaped_fragment_'))
+
       View.create_for(@topic_view.topic, request.remote_ip, current_user)
       track_visit_to_topic
       perform_show_response
diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 66bc001dc7..606936b19f 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ module ApplicationHelper
       end
     end
 
+    # Add workaround tag for old crawlers which ignores <noscript>
+    # (see https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification)
+    result << tag('meta', name: "fragment", content: "!") if SiteSetting.enable_escaped_fragments
+
     result
   end
 
diff --git a/app/models/site_setting.rb b/app/models/site_setting.rb
index d1283ec16a..6e7cb84b81 100644
--- a/app/models/site_setting.rb
+++ b/app/models/site_setting.rb
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ class SiteSetting < ActiveRecord::Base
   client_setting(:must_approve_users, false)
   client_setting(:ga_tracking_code, "")
   client_setting(:ga_domain_name, "")
+  client_setting(:enable_escaped_fragments, false)
+  client_setting(:enable_noscript_support, true)
   client_setting(:enable_long_polling, true)
   client_setting(:polling_interval, 3000)
   client_setting(:anon_polling_interval, 30000)
diff --git a/app/views/topics/plain.html.erb b/app/views/topics/plain.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79e02f2c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/topics/plain.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="<%=SiteSetting.default_locale%>">
+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
+  <title><%= render_topic_title(@topic_view.topic) %></title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<% @topic_view.posts.each do |post| %>
+  <% if post.user %>
+    <div>
+      #<%=post.post_number%> <%= t 'by'%>: <b><%= post.user.name %></b>, <%= post.created_at.to_formatted_s(:long_ordinal) %>
+    </div>
+    <div>
+      <%= post.cooked.html_safe %>
+    </div>
+    <hr/>
+  <% end %>
+<% end %>
+</body>
diff --git a/config/locales/server.en.yml b/config/locales/server.en.yml
index 17b2630eed..f2446deebc 100644
--- a/config/locales/server.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/server.en.yml
@@ -500,6 +500,8 @@ en:
     must_approve_users: "Admins must approve all users before they gain access"
     ga_tracking_code: "Google analytics tracking code code, eg: UA-12345678-9; see http://google.com/analytics"
     ga_domain_name: "Google analytics domain name, eg: mysite.com; see http://google.com/analytics"
+    enable_escaped_fragments: "Enable workaround solution to help old crawlers to index your site. WARNING: enable it only if you are really have to do it."
+    enable_noscript_support: "Enable supporting &lt;noscipt&gt; tag"
     top_menu: "Determine which items appear in the homepage navigation, and in what order. Example latest|hot|read|favorited|unread|new|posted|categories"
     post_menu: "Determine which items appear on the post menu, and in what order. Example like|edit|flag|delete|share|bookmark|reply"
     share_links: "Determine which items appear on the share dialog, and in what order. Example twitter|facebook|google+|email"
