SEO Website Audit

[emarchak]

You should make sure to audit and confirm the site's SEO prior to transferring the official domain.

Reading

• Google may be able to index, but not crawl SPA (js) sites
• Google may be able to index, but slowing re-index js
• Google has trouble indexing certain js frameworks
• Google may decline from indexing pages that have JS errors
• Google's description of how it uses sitemap.xml

Steps

• [ ] Use webmaster tools to confirm that google can view the site
• [ ] Create a complete sitemap.xml to ensure that google can index all pages.
  • Really important to ensure that all new speaker profiles are auto-added to this as speakers submit, as this addresses the lack-of-crawling issue.
  • How to create a sitemap in Django
• [ ] Ensure there are no js errors in the console, which may prevent indexing.

[s-kennedy]

Estimated hours: 4

[impuneet]

What is pending in the Sitemap generation now ?

[heymosef]

@impuneet If I recall correctly, we need to generate one for the new site which can continuously self-update based on new speakers and companies (ultimately be easily indexible by Google for better search optimization).

cc: @s-kennedy

[impuneet]

Url "https://womenandcolor-frontend.herokuapp.com/" is not working

[heymosef]

The URL is beta.womenandcolor.com or women-and-color-backend.herokuapp.com

[s-kennedy]

@impuneet the app is up, but it looks like it's trying to load the js files from localhost:8080. I think it's just an incorrectly set constant. As Mohammed said, you can access the live site from beta.womenandcolor.com.

For the site map, the main complication is that there are some routes that are handled by the React Router and some routes (for authentication) that are handled by the Django router. I think we can start with a site map for just the React routes. Try using react-router-sitemap, it looks like the go-to package for this task.

[impuneet]

Yes as far I can understand these are some of the landing pages that : https://beta.womenandcolor.com/#/speaker/223/LeighDoyle-LeighDoyle https://beta.womenandcolor.com/#/speaker/224/Sharon-Kennedy https://beta.womenandcolor.com/#/speaker/222/Stephanie-Nguyen https://beta.womenandcolor.com/#/speaker/220/Nisa-Malli

We can generate the sitemap in the serverside.That's how i have done in my site in Node JS. Having a dynamic URL : baseUrl+'/'+user+'/'+userID+'/'+usernameWithSlug

and then updating the urls after a specific period of time with cronJob.