Re:SEO in JavaScript Web Apps
by callmeed on Monday July 22, 2013 @03:27PM
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For an article that aims to "put misconceptions to rest", it's pretty damn short.
My companies do website/CMS services for small businesses–so SEO is WAY more important to us than an app or a content aggregator like Monocle. If our clients suspect SEO sucks for our product they will leave. Conversely, if our product has a reputation for good SEO, it can drive a lot of business to us.
Also, Monocle.io isn't setting the title tag for any of their URLs, so that's a pretty poor example to use wrt SEO.
I'd like to see a real, in-depth article that discusses the following:
- At this point, should I use hash-fragments or pushState?
- Which front-end JS framework (backbone, ember, angular, etc) has the best support for SEO features out of the box?
- Is Rails 4 + Turbolinks SEO-friendly?
- I'd love to see some kind of experiment/example showing that a JS/hash_fragment based site can actually rank well when competing against basic HTML sites. I know that SEO comes down to content and links (more or less) so experiments like that are hard/impossible. I just used to do a lot of SEO for Flash sites back in they day. In the end, you could only do so much and I worry that doing SEO for JS sites is similar.
Just because Google provides the hash-fragment feature doesn't mean they don't give such sites less weight when ranking.
My companies do website/CMS services for small businesses–so SEO is WAY more important to us than an app or a content aggregator like Monocle. If our clients suspect SEO sucks for our product they will leave. Conversely, if our product has a reputation for good SEO, it can drive a lot of business to us.
Also, Monocle.io isn't setting the title tag for any of their URLs, so that's a pretty poor example to use wrt SEO.
I'd like to see a real, in-depth article that discusses the following:
- At this point, should I use hash-fragments or pushState?
- Which front-end JS framework (backbone, ember, angular, etc) has the best support for SEO features out of the box?
- Is Rails 4 + Turbolinks SEO-friendly?
- I'd love to see some kind of experiment/example showing that a JS/hash_fragment based site can actually rank well when competing against basic HTML sites. I know that SEO comes down to content and links (more or less) so experiments like that are hard/impossible. I just used to do a lot of SEO for Flash sites back in they day. In the end, you could only do so much and I worry that doing SEO for JS sites is similar.
Just because Google provides the hash-fragment feature doesn't mean they don't give such sites less weight when ranking.