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espruino / BangleApps

Bangle.js App Loader (and Apps)
https://banglejs.com/apps
MIT License
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Search Engine Performance #533

Open gfwilliams opened 4 years ago

gfwilliams commented 4 years ago

How do we let Google index BangleApps properly so a search for "Bangle.js BLE Scanner" goes directly to the "BLE Scanner" app? The URL would be banglejs.com/apps#blescan

I made some changes recently to try and help with this: 8beb44510b8d8ca24dc86901023509b754050db8

But there might be more we could do... It's got to help

jjok commented 4 years ago

I was going to say you could try generating an XML site map, but I'm not sure it considers # anchors to be different pages.

Is it possible to make the URL banglejs.com/apps/blescan instead? That way it looks like its it's own page. You can do that kind thing with the History API.

It would probably help if the apps actually part of initial HTML of the page, rather than added in with JavaScript. How about pre-rendering the apps HTML, so it's already there before the JS kicks in to make all the filtering work? You could do it as part of the build/deployment process. Maybe.

gfwilliams commented 4 years ago

I guess to make banglejs.com/apps/blesca work I'd have to modify the webserver too. Nothing stops me from using query strings though - like banglejs.com/apps?a=blesca?

In terms of pre-rendering, I think we're ok as-is. If you google bangleapps you can see Google's managed to pull in the content from apps.json by running the JS, so it's just ensuring it knows how to link everything.