CMCDragonkai

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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   The title of the article says "How do I create an HTML snapshot?" The FAQ ( https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/... ) goes into more detail regarding the concept of _escaped_fr
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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   Dynamic constructions of sitemaps is surprisingly difficult. We would need to poll every single page you have, just to check if you potentially have a new link to a new page in your site. And everytime you add a new page, that's a whol
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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   Not necessarily. This concept of HTML snapshots is actually suggested by Google as a solution. See this: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/... We comply with Google's guidelines
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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   Not every single search engine will be able to scale a JS virtual machine for all the pages they need to index. There are also social network bots that you might like supporting such as Facebook and Twitter which will not be able to crawl j
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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   We moved from Hipchat to Kato, mainly due to the bugs and frequent servers going offline.
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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   Hey gildas, I answered a similar question here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7765731
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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   Content sites should be able to take advantage of javascript technologies more fully. It's all about user experience in the end. There's all sorts of new ways of navigating or presenting content that isn't just a static docum
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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   I agree, the goal of Snapsearch is to allow the possibility of going full steam ahead with heavy javascript, and not having to worry about trying to make it all compatible with non-js clients like search engines. It's all about reducin
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   by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

   There's some important technical and operational differences from SnapSearch and using phantomjs, I answered this in a comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7765731
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Hey I understand where you're coming from. I had the same impression before I began on SnapSearch. But right now SPAs are still a minority of the websites in the world, but eventually everybody will start making web applications. But d
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    But it's not just google now. It's anybody who does any kind of crawling on the web, which includes social media robots (that acquire images from the link), personal web crawlers, private internal search engine, data mining, even
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    I think the single page app trend is coinciding with the growth of javascript, HTML5. It shows that the websites of the future will be more and more like web applications, and they need dynamic UI. The thing that's stopping us the SEO
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Do you have any examples? Because I've been building single page apps for 2 years, and none of it is indexed. Also indexing for search is not the only thing, sometimes clients need google adverts, which require the google media bot che
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Yep a sitemap can also work. But it's not needed, since Google will follow your anchored links anyway. SnapSearch in the future can also create sitemaps dynamically.
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Thanks for the feedback :). I'll look into it. Did you know the bolt is also a tiger stripe? That's why I got the tiger theme.
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Here's a shortlist of differences and benefits: 1. SnapSearch uses load balanced Firefox, this allows us to keep up with the latest in HTML5 unlike the QtWebkit of PhantomJS 2. SnapSearch does metered billing, this comes out cheaper fo
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    They may one day. But it's a big computational overhead from straight curling to running a JS VM for everything. Right now SPAs are still a minority on the web. But I guess the question is will you wait for Google to support your site
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Ah, well Prerender does use a single file, which means they haven't broken down their middleware into 3 components. All SnapSearch middleware is broken down (OOP style) into Detector, Client and Interceptor. I recognised, that this OOP
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Well SnapSearch allows you to make dynamic web applications without worrying about SEO problems. It's not so much a technical solution to a technical problem that we created ourselves, it's the fact that search engines and social
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Your links on your homepage, should already be "<a></a>" anchor links. When google hits your page, and it's served up by SnapSearch, then it will automatically find those anchor tags and navigate to the subpa
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    I calculated the average price per usage versus Prerender.io for average sites. And it comes out to be cheaper or equivalent to the standard price of Prerender.io. Basically take the amount of usages you use of Prerender.io per month, and c
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    Hey HN, Roger here, happy to answer any questions.
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    by CMCDragonkai 12y ago

    I'm not really a fan of big and magical frameworks. So the existence of Rails doesn't actually make me think Ruby is superior to PHP, although I need to try Sinatra. That being said I like Ruby's OOP. But in the end all OOP i
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    Show HN: SEO for JavaScript, HTML5 and Single Page Applications(snapsearch.io)

    50 points by CMCDragonkai 12y ago|56 comments
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    by CMCDragonkai 13y ago

    I built SnapSearch for JS/SPA sites that need SEO. But it works for scraping as well. https://snapsearch.io/ You can try the demo. I tried it with " http://www.asos.com/" and it worked properl
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    by CMCDragonkai 13y ago

    Try using https://snapsearch.io/ It is designed for JS sites.
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    by CMCDragonkai 13y ago

    I recently created a service designed to make JS sites crawlable by search engines and other robots. However it works for scraping as well. Try the demo: https://snapsearch.io/
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    by CMCDragonkai 14y ago

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