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Rolintocour
Rolintocour

Reputation: 3168

SEO and AngularJS

I am building a web application with Angular JS, I need this to be fully SEO-optimized. It seems that for a few, google is able to crawl angular app but it is not clear if it can read everything (eg I read that directives cannot be interpreted). So today, is an angular app fully google-compatible even if we use the full set of JS functions? What about other engines? Do we still need fantomJS static generation for Yahoo or microsoft?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 214

Answers (1)

Carlos Perea
Carlos Perea

Reputation: 616

As of today, AngularJS is still not fully SEO-optimized. Thus, a lot of developers still find it necessary to use services like Predender.io or cooking up their own implementation by using PhantomJS

Great strides have been made towards SEO-friendliness, especially when talking about AngularJS 2.0 since it allows you to render HTML on the server side (More info here).

However, even with the new additions it's better to retain control over what the search engines are seeing by creating pre-rendered versions of your site.

Here is a great article about this very topic: https://builtvisible.com/javascript-framework-seo/

To quote some parts of it:

Google can render and crawl JS sites. This, however is no guarantee that the outcome will be an SEO friendly, perfectly optimised site! Technical SEO expertise is needed, especially during testing. This will ensure that you have an SEO friendly site architecture, targeting the right keywords. A site that continues to rank despite the changes made in Google’s crawl.

In my opinion, it’s better to retain tighter control of what’s being rendered by serving Google a pre-rendered, flat version of your site. This way, all the classic rules of SEO apply and it should be easier to detect and diagnose potential SEO issues during testing.

As far as other search engines, it seems like they currently don't support javascript rendering yet: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a

The technology used on your website can sometimes prevent Bingbot from being able to find your content. Rich media (Flash, JavaScript, etc.) can lead to Bing not being able to crawl through navigation, or not see content embedded in a webpage. To avoid any issue, you should consider implementing a down-level experience which includes the same content elements and links as your rich version does. This will allow anyone (Bingbot) without rich media enabled to see and interact with your website.

Upvotes: 2

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