Make your React web apps discoverable – JavaScript SEO



In this video of the JavaScript SEO series, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Martin Splitt shares how to make your React apps discoverable in search and how to avoid common problems you may encounter with a React app.

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50 thoughts on “Make your React web apps discoverable – JavaScript SEO”

  1. This is exactly what, I am currently working, let's see I build an ecommerce with react, but the problem was find the right tool to serve server-side files, in my case I'm using NextJs and It's useful discover there are other libraries like react span for simple static files

  2. As of Feb 2023, Rendertron is deprecated and React-snap hasn't been maintained actively for a while.
    "Please note that this project is deprecated. Dynamic rendering is not a recommended approach and there are better approaches to rendering on the web."

  3. I have a question regarding seo meta data of react, how can i set meta data dynamically so that when i paste the url on social media like Facebook or Twitter thn i get the preview of this url, like when i am in home page it will show me meta data of home page. Through api i can achieve it i can fetch data from server but the problem is when i paste the url on social media i am not seeing any previous and also meta data on set in head tag, maybe api takes time and meanwhile Facebook or other social media fetch url data quickly. i have used react helmet and others traditional way but could not achieve this, Could you please help me to find out the solution please????

  4. Hey, Your videos are very nice and useful. Can you help me? My website is on Reactjs but on Client-Side Rendering. Using React APIs as the backend is WordPress and the Frontend is Reactjs. All my keywords rankings dropped and not a single keyword is in Google Search now which were on top pages. Can you help me by suggesting to me the best possible way to get the data and ranking back?

  5. Rather than making search bots more intelligent which btw are using the same method to index since ages with just little upgrades here and there , Bots wants the website to be build in more old fashion to get indexed… Why not upgrade the bots rather than telling developers to make their website the old way.

  6. i got 2 different homepage seo on the page google crawled.
    one is index.html and another one is helmet component.
    how it is possible?
    i have checked seochecker site in react page of http://www.bavalaksh.com and it grade is 0 🙁
    but it say no content are available (Empty page).
    now i put meta tag, title tag, meta description in index.html and also say no content are availabe in the page.
    how to solve it. please revert me if you have any doubt?

  7. Could client side rendering through React get us a manual action? We don't hide anything, all our structured data is visible to the user. But we are using client side rendering with React. We are in process of fixing it but our Jobs posting website has this message: "JobPosting structured data found on pages that don't have job posting content". It just seems to me that a manual reviewer would see what our users see? I could understand if we got dinged algorithmically, but I'm perplexed at the manual action.

  8. Hi, I have problem with Lighthouse and React CSR website. When running Speed and Performance Test ,the load time of page is quite nice when checking in webpagetest.org but really poor in Lighthouse report. What does it mean? Does Google takes only Performance metrics from Lighthouse or it is not the only source of defining site speed, TFBs and other metrics? From where does those differences between tools came from? Anyone else have this problem?

  9. Fantastic, thank you so much for making these, please keep these coming. Professional SEO for a large website and have not found anything as useful as this about JS SEO before 🙂

  10. – React devs: Look, now react is SEO, you just need to use react.router to handle your request and react-helmet to add metadata and react-snap to prerender the content to a static file.

    – Me:🤔So why don't you go for the static file on the 1st place?

  11. Thanks for this.

    Was laughing now at the one position I had at a previous company.
    In the interview they told me I will have to do SEO on a Single Page Application.

    As interviews sometimes go, you a bit nervous, and all I heard was Single Pager. (Infinity page, one pager).
    Saying, ah yeah, it will be hard, but through a good blog and content strategy you can rank the blog and point to the website.

    My first day at the office, "aaaaaaah" it is a Single Page Application, JavaScript. And Google Crawlers and JS at the time was still newish.

    I learned a lot and had to think creative to make it work.

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