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Re:Why We Chose API First Development at Our Startup by iLoch on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @05:51PM (#6765076)
1.) I'm using Prerender.io which targets bots and renders the page for them using PhantomJS - it's really neat! The only drawback is the response time will increase a bit for the bots, which may affect SEO.
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Re:Why We Chose API First Development at Our Startup by danudey on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @07:47PM (#6765662)
Is there any reason you couldn't actually pre-render the pages and then serve cached versions to the bots? That almost feels like cheating though, as far as SEO goes.
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Re:Why We Chose API First Development at Our Startup by ds_ on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @04:49AM (#6767142)
You should be pre-rendering them, since a long wait to first byte negatively impacts SEO. Google suggests this https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/.... I recently launched http://crawlspa.com to offer this as a service.
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