Apr 3, 2019
Single page AJAX vs Wordpress SEO advise needed
I have an old static website and I've integrated Wordpress into that website (into sub directory).
Now, I'm pulling recent posts to my homepage from Worpress via Wordpress REST API through AJAX call.
Now obviously when user clicks on post it needs to take him to some page where he will read that post.
Here is my dilemma:
Which approach is more Google SEO friendly and why?
1. When he clicks on post, it takes him to single page where entire content of that post will be displayed throughout AJAX call. So basically one page "blog.php" and AJAX call will display there content of desired post.
2. Leave it as it is (he will go to Wordpress site) that sits in sub directory and Wordpress will take care of everything.
Now I have feeling that option 2 is better, but just wanted to check here if someone can specify me exactly why.
Also since this is a bit uncommon question, just shout if i need to provide more details so you can understand what am I trying to achieve.
Thanks in advance
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Apr 3, 2019
Not sure its that 'uncommon'.
Pretty common dilemea these days, whether to go for client side (sometimes known as AJAX) rendering or server side rendering (like wordpress)
In general Client side (or javascript) rendering is risky, but is attractive as can do some pretty neat things (like fast/seamless page transitions)
Whereas as server side rendering, is more reliable (been around longer!), but can be a bit slow and feels archaic.
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Not sure its that 'uncommon'.
Pretty common dilemea these days, whether to go for client side (sometimes known as AJAX) rendering or server side rendering (like wordpress)
In general Client side (or javascript) rendering is risky, but is attractive as can do some pretty neat things (like fast/seamless page transitions)
Whereas as server side rendering, is more reliable (been around longer!), but can be a bit slow and feels archaic.
Try:
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Diamond Product Expert Travler. recommended this
Apr 4, 2019
I've watched JavaScript SEO series, and Martin is a very good teacher. He is really sharing some good knowledge. Last 2 videos are about Angular and React, so I'm guessing that video about AJAX is yet to come. In the meantime I've read a lot of Google Webmaster documentation regarding AJAX that is deprecated and how that stuff works now. From what I figured out - Google crawlers will even index content that is called through AJAX calls where your page is structured in a certain way, but they will not perform that good if you have some kind of really dynamic page. Therefore I think that I will use old-fashioned way for the sake of SEO (I would probably lose even more time trying to optimize AJAX calls for crawlers, etc.).