The front-end web development ecosystem has evolved. Large and small companies/communities have made efforts to make it better every day. You won’t be surprised when I say that front end development in 2020 revolves around Single Page Applications (SPAs). The technology is leveraged by a number of frameworks to help us build better. We have seen the evolution of SPAs in the last decade and Angular is a key player in the field.
Angular has been around for nearly half a decade now. The developer community has created an enormous number of applications with it and it still remains the top developer choice. The collaboration and the community continuously make efforts to bring us better tools and an ecosystem to make the developer work less painful.
Everything is good when it comes to SPAs, except SEO. Creating _SEO friendly _SPAs in Angular is not easy! Most search engine crawlers never execute the JavaScript but only crawls the page source. This makes SEO in SPAs really hard.
Why is SEO Important?
While paid advertising, social media, and other online platforms can generate traffic to websites, the majority of online traffic is driven by search engines like Google.
SEO is also one of the only online marketing channels that, when set up correctly, can continue to pay dividends over time. If you provide a solid piece of content that deserves to rank for the right keywords, your traffic can snowball over time, whereas advertising needs continuous funding to send traffic to your site.
Optimizing your site will help deliver better information to search engines so that your content can be properly indexed and displayed within search results.
In this article, well go through tools and tricks we can use to make an Ángular application SEO friendly. I’ll be explaining common practices and my learnings along the way. Let’s get going!
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