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TheUnreal
TheUnreal

Reputation: 24492

Can Google index and follow RouterLink links?

Assuming I have Angular 2 App, routing with RouterLink, Google can read it as a follow link and index it?

In other words: Can google bot recognize the routerlinks normally as links?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2231

Answers (3)

Michał Krawiec
Michał Krawiec

Reputation: 11

According to Google documentation googlebot can't navigate through pages using routerLink.

You can try and add both attributes - href and routerLink. In my tests the interactivity for the user didn't change and it still worked like a single page application. I think googlebot should be able to follow the link thanks to href attribute and ignore routerLink, but I didn't test it yet.

Upvotes: 1

mariomol
mariomol

Reputation: 697

This is the argument in Angular Universal:

Optimized for Search Engines: Although Googlebot crawls and renders most dynamic sites, many search engines expect plain HTML

So for google not needed

but for other crawlers you might need.. Angular Univeral

Upvotes: 3

Tuomas Kujala
Tuomas Kujala

Reputation: 11

It cannot, but you should take a look at Angular Universal. With it, you can pre-render your app on the server side and Google is able to understand it.

Upvotes: 0

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