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Ask HN: How does Twitter do SEO if their site renders using JavaScript

1 points by vixalien 5y ago

If you try too visit twitter.com with Javascript disabled, you will get a <noscript> error. If Twitter can't render, how does Google index it? I know Google most probably renders JS pages as well but let's imagine it doesn't. How would then Twitter be indexed??

PaulHoule 5y ago
Google does index JS pages. It's not that hard to do, I've used https://htmlunit.sourceforge.io/ https://htmlunit.sourceforge.io/ to do just that.
- vixalien 5y ago
  Yet try to search your twitter username on google.
new_guy 5y ago
Another point is a lot of the big sites don't even bother with SEO (or standards for that matter) when they get that big.
- vixalien 5y ago
  Yeah. I bet Google assigned some folks the task "make a twitter crawler"
Nextgrid 5y ago
When running a walled garden the lack of SEO is a feature.
- vixalien 5y ago
  True
gvb 5y ago
At one time, and probably still today, Google pays for a "firehose" direct feed from twitter. https://searchengineland.com/everything-need-know-google-twitter-partnership-216892 https://searchengineland.com/everything-need-know-google-twi...
- vixalien 5y ago
  Oh actually