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denvned / isomorphic-relay-router

Adds server side rendering support to react-router-relay
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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SEO indexing #41

Closed hbizira closed 8 years ago

hbizira commented 8 years ago

Hi, I was curious if the initial server side render that's returned gets indexed by google and bing? I'm attempting to build a site that has each route indexed by search engines and I'm concerned that isomorphic-relay-router's preloaded json data that gets returned to the client will not have a chance to be loaded into the html before the search engine attempts to index the site. Has anyone tested this aspect with google and/or bing?

mattecapu commented 8 years ago

JSON data it's only needed to rehydrate components client-side.

If you render your components on the server, then the search engines will see meaningiful HTML alongside a bunch of JSON which would be ignored.

Try to navigate to your page with JS disabled, you'll see just what is rendered on the server (that is pretty much what web crawlers see).

hbizira commented 8 years ago

great thank you @mattecapu I think I was confused by the example todo list which came out empty on initial render but that was because it doesn't have a persistent backend to keep the todo list items.