I have an intranet site built on AngularJS 1.x.
The problem I'm trying to solve is to:
1. Index all of the pages in this site
2. Provide search using ElasticSearch
The issues I'm running into is:
I'm not sure how to produce this index to feed into ElasticSearch
I tried CURL but CURL does not interpret the AngularJS program and therefore does not see the content on the partial HTML pages.
Guidance very much appreciated.
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I remade my website, and used angularJS for some part of it. It is online for three weeks now, and seems that Google still not indexed any of the angularjs content.
I would like to know what is the status of Google crawling Angularjs in 2018?
Searching the web returns old articles that claims that Google cannot crawl Angularjs, although google claim they do crawl Angularjs.
Should I wait patiently for Google to crawl my site or generate a server-side-rendering instead?
Also, I would like a link to how to properly do server-side-rendering in 2018?
Is hashbang is still the standard way to do it? There are some similar questions on Stack Overflow that are several years old, but I wonder if the situation has changed.
here is a good article - http://kevinmichaelcoy.com/blog/2018/02/19/2018-search-engine-optimization-with-angularjs-1-x-single-page-application/
Also, for your sanity, you can check what your website looks like when Google crawls it by going to Google Webmaster/Search Console and under “Crawl” choose “Fetch as Google”, then “Fetch and Render” :
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/googlebot-fetch
In the case of my site - google doesn't index angular JS so well
For some page it display the content as I would expected, but on other it just display the raw html (i.e. with the {{title}} ng tag instead of the value of the $scope.title)
I'm fetching a category page that uses ajax to display the category content - some category display well, thus it might be a bug in the googlebot-fetch tool
https://buyamerica.co.il/ba_supplier#/showCategory/ba-suplier/840
https://buyamerica.co.il/ba_supplier#/showCategory/ba-suplier/468
But I still don't know how long should it take for google to show it in the index?
NOTE: according to this https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html server side rendering is deprecated
I have a list of thousands of Web URLs (originated from bookmarks). I have a need to be able to search the landing page of these URLs. I don't need the web crawler function but I need the de-duplication function.
I'm new to solr and try to figure out the simplest way to create the index. I'm thinking about using SimplePostTool that accepts multi URLs as its parameters. However, I have difficulty understanding how to use the de-duplication with this SimplePostTool.
Is there any other method to do this indexing?
Appreciate for any hints.
Thanks.
Starting with a website build with AngularJS as frontend and a ReST API set as backend. I would like to append an online help content.
Does exist a project or a framework to do that quickly (using angularjs powerfull) ?
I have no special mandatory requirements. I think that two concept could be important:
help section representation as a tree,
quick link between webapplication and online help.
JHipser may be the one you need.
I finally decided to build it without additional framework:
a flat json file that describe the structure and contents of my online help,
a controller with $http.get(...) embedded to get back the content
a dedicated help page : I re-use the bootstrap help menu and I use the ng-repeat directive to show the active content.
(Anyway Thanks #Shaojiang Cai for your suggest).
I'm deciding whether it's safe to develop my client-facing app in AngularJS using pushState.
I've read that when using pushState in an AngularJS app, we don't need to worry about Googlebot because it can now execute enough JS to produce an HTML snippet for itself. But then I wonder about Bing, Facebook and other bots and scrapers. The tutorials I've seen for making AngularJS SEO-friendly all deal with apps that use hashbangs (#!). These don't apply to me since I'm not using hashbangs.
Does anyone have insight into this problem? What are some methods for ensuring an AngularJS app that uses pushState is SEO-friendly and Social-scraper-friendly? If you use a service like Seo4Ajax or prerender.io I'd appreciate your thoughts on it.
Note: As I understand it, when developing single page apps in the last couple of years it has been necessary to send HTML snippets to SEO crawlers. This was accomplished by using hashbangs and a meta tag that let Google, Bing and Facebook know that it needed to replace the bang (!) with an _escaped_string when making a request. On the server you'd listed for requests with _escaped_string and deliver the appropriate HTML snippet using a tool to generate HTML snippets like phantomJS.
Now that we have pushState, I don't see how we indicate to javascript-less bots what part of the URL to rewrite with an _escaped_string or even if it's necessary. I'm having trouble finding any information beyond "you're site will be okay with google ;)".
Here are some other SO questions that are similar but have gone unanswered.
Angularjs vs SEO vs pushState
.htaccess for SEO bots crawling single page applications without hashbangs
Here's a solution I posted in that question and am considering for myself in case I want to send HTML snippets to bots. This would be a solution for a Symfony2 backend:
Use prerender or another service to generate static snippets of all your pages. Store them somewhere accessible by your router.
In your Symfony2 routing file, create a route that matches your SPA. I have a test SPA running at localhost.com/ng-test/, so my route would look like this:
# Adding a trailing / to this route breaks it. Not sure why.
# This is also not formatting correctly in StackOverflow. This is yaml.
NgTestReroute:
----path: /ng-test/{one}/{two}/{three}/{four}
----defaults:
--------_controller: DriverSideSiteBundle:NgTest:ngTestReroute
--------'one': null
--------'two': null
--------'three': null
--------'four': null
----methods: [GET]
In your Symfony2 controller, check user-agent to see if it's googlebot or bingbot. You should be able to do this with the code below, and then use this list to target the bots you're interested in (http://www.searchenginedictionary.com/spider-names.shtml)...
if(strstr(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']), "googlebot"))
{
// what to do
}
If your controller finds a match to a bot, send it the HTML snippet. Otherwise, as in the case with my AngularJS app, just send the user to the index page and Angular will correctly do the rest.
Supposedly, Bing also supports pushState. For Facebook, make sure your website takes advantage of Open Graph META tags.
I want to implement a Search-Tool with AngularJS on a Site in Symfony. The Angular-App is only part of this single Template. BUT the results of the search has also crawled from Search Engines as Google, Yahoo and so on. The Idea i have was to build a switch in a Action of Symfony. If the action detects that the request is from a Search Engine it gets a Template that have a regular search index with first results, without the angular-part.
The Question is, may this cause Problems?