seoserver

SEO Server is a command line tool that runs a server that allows GoogleBot, as well as other crawlers, to crawl Javascript heavy websites.

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SEO Server is a command line tool that runs a server that allows GoogleBot, as well as other crawlers, to crawl Javascript heavy websites.

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May 20	2013-05-20 00:00:00 UTC	2013-05-27 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
May 27	2013-05-27 00:00:00 UTC	2013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 3	2013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC	2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 10	2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC	2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 17	2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC	2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 24	2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 1	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 8	2013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 15	2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 22	2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 29	2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 5	2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 12	2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 19	2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 26	2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2	2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Sep 9	2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 16	2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 23	2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 30	2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 7	2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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thomasfromcdnjs·Oct 7, 2013

I wrote a similar open source library that uses this approach last year http://github.com/apiengine/seoserver and the blog post related to it http://backbonetutorials.com/seo-for-single-page-apps/

In Javascript apps can be fully crawlable

thomasfromcdnjs·Sep 2, 2013

I've been working on a server which you can run easily to facilitate SEO for single page applications. https://github.com/apiengine/seoserver Based off this article http://backbonetutorials.com/seo-for-single-page-apps/

In Yapp.js: Build large client-side applications in a structured way

olegp·May 23, 2013

This may be the case for pure single page apps, but any real world application will have some pages you want to load faster and have easily indexed by search engines. At https://starthq.com we started out as a single page app with a RESTful API using Angular, but with time it has become apparent that there are certain public pages that need to have the HTML generated server side. Now we have a hybrid solution, where some parts of the page are generated on the server and others, namely the parts that are different for anonymous and logged in users, on the client. We've experimented with the likes of https://github.com/apiengine/seoserver but the truth of the matter is it's actually easier to generate the HTML server side than using Angular.

In Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project