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SEO Best Practices for JavaScript
What To Do When Google Can't
Understand Your JavaScript
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How Search Engines Typically Work
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Everything is there!
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Web Development Technologies
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Search Engines’ Mission:Serving the best result
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No page titleNo content
Etc.
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It’s in the DOM!
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How Search Engines Typically Work
Render “Understanding web pages better”
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So, what now?
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§ Crawling– Don’t block resources via robots.txt
How To Make Sure Google Can Understand Your Pages
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§ Crawling– Don’t block resources via robots.txt
– onclick + window.location != <a href=”link.html”>
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§ Crawling– Don’t block resources via robots.txt
– onclick + window.location != <a href=”link.html”>
– 1 unique “clean” URL per piece of content (and vice-versa)
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URL Structures (with AJAX websites)
§ Fragment Identifier: example.com/#url– Not supported. Ignored. URL = example.com
§ Hashbang: example.com/#!url (pretty URL)– Google and Bing will request: example.com/?_escaped_fragment_=url (ugly URL)
– The escaped_fragment URL should return an HTML snapshot
§ Clean URL: example.com/url– Leveraging the pushState function from the History API
– Must return a 200 status code when loaded directly
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History API - pushState()
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§ Crawling– Don’t block resources via robots.txt
– onclick + window.location != <a href=”link.html”>
– 1 unique “clean” URL per piece of content (and vice-versa)
§ Rendering– Load content automatically, not based on user interaction (click,
mouseover, scroll)
How To Make Sure Google Can Understand Your Pages
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§ Crawling– Don’t block resources via robots.txt
– onclick + window.location != <a href=”link.html”>
– 1 unique “clean” URL per piece of content (and vice-versa)
§ Rendering– Load content automatically, not based on user interaction (click,
mouseover, scroll)
– the 5-second rule
How To Make Sure Google Can Understand Your Pages
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Google Fetch & Render PageSpeed Insights
The 5-second rule
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§ Crawling– Don’t block resources via robots.txt
– onclick + window.location != <a href=”link.html”>
– 1 unique “clean” URL per piece of content (and vice-versa)
§ Rendering– Load content automatically, not based on user interaction (click,
mouseover, scroll)
– the 5-second rule
– Avoid JavaScript errors (bots vs. browsers)
How To Make Sure Google Can Understand Your Pages
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§ HTML snapshots are only required with uncrawlable URLs (#!)
§ When used with clean URLs:– 2 URLs requested for each content (crawl budget!)
§ Served directly to (other) crawlers (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.)
§ Matching the content in the DOM
§ No JavaScript (except JSON-LD markup)§ Not blocked from crawling
The “Old” AJAX Crawling Scheme And HTML Snapshots
DOM HTML Snapshot
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§ Crawling– Don’t block resources via robots.txt
– onclick + window.location != <a href=”link.html”>
– 1 unique “clean” URL per piece of content (and vice-versa)
§ Rendering– Load content automatically, not based on user interaction (click,
mouseover, scroll)
– the 5-second rule
– Avoid JavaScript errors (bots vs. browsers)
§ Indexing– Mind the order of precedence (SEO signals and content)
How To Make Sure Google Can Understand Your Pages
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HTTP Headers
HTML Source
DOM HTML Snapshot
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§ Google cache (unless HTML snapshots)
Tools For SEO And JavaScript
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§ Google cache (unless HTML snapshots)
§ Google Fetch & Render (Search Console)– limitation in terms of bytes (~200 KBs)
– doesn’t show HTML snapshot (DOM)
Tools For SEO And JavaScript
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§ Google cache (unless HTML snapshots)
§ Google Fetch & Render (Search Console)– limitation in terms of bytes (~200 KBs)
– doesn’t show HTML snapshot (DOM)
§ Fetch & Render As Any Bot (TechnicalSEO.com)
Tools For SEO And JavaScript
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§ Google cache (unless HTML snapshots)
§ Google Fetch & Render (Search Console)– limitation in terms of bytes (~200 KBs)
– doesn’t show HTML snapshot (DOM)
§ Fetch & Render As Any Bot (TechnicalSEO.com)§ Chrome DevTools (JavaScript Console)
Tools For SEO And JavaScript
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§ Google cache (unless HTML snapshots)
§ Google Fetch & Render (Search Console)– limitation in terms of bytes (~200 KBs)
– doesn’t show HTML snapshot (DOM)
§ Fetch & Render As Any Bot (TechnicalSEO.com)§ Chrome DevTools (JavaScript Console)
§ SEO Crawlers– ScreamingFrog
– Botify
– Scalpel (Merkle proprietary tool)
Tools For SEO And JavaScript
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