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Ask HN: How to have my single page, ajax hungry, app rank in Google?
I am working on a site with a friend, we both coded a lot(3 months), learned a lot(backbone.js, GAE, etc...) and shipped an "Alpha" version of our site.
I assumed the SEO part of it mainly because I like it, I don't have any experience whatsoever besides some good books and my curiosity about the subject.
Now almost 90 days after the "launch for friends" we are in need of some advice.
How can I rank my single Page app that is almost entirely empty when google BOT scans it because we use AJAX like crazy ? It's mainly a JS map with some search fields and very few keywords on HTML...
I am seeing no progress in google besides the very careful link building. (At least I think so.)
I would love some advice from you guys.
- shyn3 14y agoCreate temporary .html files that are accessible and updated on a regular time interval
- jameswyse 14y agoGoogle does do ajax crawling but it requires a bit of work on your part. You need to have server-rendered equivalents for all the URLs of the site you want indexed. Google will GET these adding an '_escaped_fragment_' key so you can identify the request and serve a static page instead. As for Bing, DDG, etc I have no idea.
- AznHisoka 14y agoYou're asking the wrong question. Even if you do manage to get that 1 page ranking, it can't rank for more than a handful of keywords. You need to come up with some content: blog posts, videos, interviews, anything related to your app and funnel those visitors to users. Aka content marketing.