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Good question. My guess is it will be OK for the text, but links will be out of whack so bots won't really "crawl" the site. Then again, maybe advanced bots wi

by ivan_ah 11y ago

Good question. My guess is it will be OK for the text, but links will be out of whack so bots won't really "crawl" the site. Then again, maybe advanced bots will run the js? also, I know words in h-tags are usually "counted" as more important, so that logic won't work with raw .md

zwetan 11y ago
what text ? there is no text, the page is empty, the linking is not the first priority at this point a robot to be able to read the text would already need to run the js in the first place but the concept is interesting let's do a CONTENT management system but be completely invisible to any search bots so our CONTENT never ever get referenced and searchable on the Internet
- wingerlang 11y ago
  Hasn't crawlers solved this issue? I know google can crawl "js sites", probably especially simple sites like these. It would probably reduce the score though.
- NocturnalWaffle 11y ago
  Google has been able to handle javascript in pages for a while now.. http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157 http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascri...
  - zwetan 11y ago
    yeah Google does but what about the 1000s other robots ? sure Google is the bigger one and you have to be referenced on it, but there are also other indexes where you want to be referenced, and those are maybe not using robots as advanced as google. So, as I said, for your normal robot crawler visiting the page, the page is empty, no content. That Google have already solved the problem does not mean that everyone else did. Why do you think prerender.io exists ? to solve that very same problem From a SEO point of view, which was the question I was answering, it is ridiculous to serve a page without content to an indexing robot crawler. -4 ? go all educate (F) yourself :) I mean here a list of active robots crawler https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/crawlers https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/crawlers here an example of how people apply that in practice https://gist.github.com/Stanback/7028309 https://gist.github.com/Stanback/7028309 also last but not least, yeah GoogleBot parse/read JS, but do read their guidelines https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.html https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2014/10/updating-... "Make sure your web design adheres to the principles of progressive enhancement" serving a blank page, that you then fill with content using pushState is not what I call progressive enhancement

by ivan_ah 11y ago

zwetan 11y ago

what text ? there is no text, the page is empty, the linking is not the first priority at this point a robot to be able to read the text would already need to run the js in the first place but the concept is interesting let's do a CONTENT management system but be completely invisible to any search bots so our CONTENT never ever get referenced and searchable on the Internet

wingerlang 11y ago
Hasn't crawlers solved this issue? I know google can crawl "js sites", probably especially simple sites like these. It would probably reduce the score though.
NocturnalWaffle 11y ago
Google has been able to handle javascript in pages for a while now.. http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157 http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascri...
- zwetan 11y ago
  yeah Google does but what about the 1000s other robots ? sure Google is the bigger one and you have to be referenced on it, but there are also other indexes where you want to be referenced, and those are maybe not using robots as advanced as google. So, as I said, for your normal robot crawler visiting the page, the page is empty, no content. That Google have already solved the problem does not mean that everyone else did. Why do you think prerender.io exists ? to solve that very same problem From a SEO point of view, which was the question I was answering, it is ridiculous to serve a page without content to an indexing robot crawler. -4 ? go all educate (F) yourself :) I mean here a list of active robots crawler https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/crawlers https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/crawlers here an example of how people apply that in practice https://gist.github.com/Stanback/7028309 https://gist.github.com/Stanback/7028309 also last but not least, yeah GoogleBot parse/read JS, but do read their guidelines https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.html https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2014/10/updating-... "Make sure your web design adheres to the principles of progressive enhancement" serving a blank page, that you then fill with content using pushState is not what I call progressive enhancement