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What is the best frontend solution, considering SEO?

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt on May 28, 2020

I think CMS's are moving away from SEO, targeting only backend simplification. For frontend, plugins and community packages included, what is the ...
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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

I reality, I am current trying Next.js; not knowing better it is better or worse than Gatsby? But I am quite sure it is

  • API enabled
  • Not even sure if react/helmet is still alive, but I am sure that next/head is still maintained (by a paid company hosting zeit.co).
  • Not forcing to use GraphQL. -- Does it even matter?, as there is almost no eventual API calls on the generated site, anyway.
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Ahadul Islam

I am doing laravel with my custom html static generator, I dump nextjs. Haha

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johnboscobenedict • Edited

I'm doing Laravel also, btw which SEO strategy would recommend for a laravel app?

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Ahadul Islam

Follow the Google SEO guidelines should be enough :)

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johnboscobenedict

Alright, I'll do that. Thanks

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Souk Syp. • Edited

I tried Next but finally decided to stick with what I already knew and used (Lapis on OpenResty) for better Seo and put javascript like a cherry on top for better experience.

I had a hard time trying to understand shared state between server and client side. When navigate back and forth, the concept becomes abstract. I lost the current state of my app.

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Sana • Edited

I would like to add more on SEO. Regarding the front-end solution, I completely agree that Gatsby and Hugo are good choices. However, if one wants to improve SEO hard work, it’s important for him/her to understand what is seo is and what all other factors can help them succeed.

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SIMON DODSON

ranking js is still a tiresome process over traditional builds, even the head of google product said if your in ecom stay away from js. i feel thats a pretty good indication crawlers still struggle with manifests an deep level dynamic linking

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Yufan Lou

SEO in the end is largely not a technical problem. As long as you have access to the head, the rest is more about how to adapt your generator to output the meta tags according to your API.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

As a long as it is prerendered (SSG), not Javascript controlled (SPA).

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Payam Nasheed

I am doing seo my onlinequranclasses.com/ and myqurantutor.com/

I made some my own strategies and I am getiing good results. Your websites should be fast and your content should be unique and do somthing new.