One SEO professional asked John Mueller during the Question and Answer segment of a recent hangout about JavaScript SEO.
Their question was: They have a website related to JavaScript and pre-rendering using Angular. Currently, it’s impossible to change to server-side rendering.
They were wondering if there were any other JavaScript SEO solutions that they could try.
John recommends taking a look at the videos on their YouTube channel from Martin Splitt.
He has been focusing on the JavaScript end of search.
And he has a lot of information on what you can do to test your pages and make sure that they work well in search.
Google has also expanded the documentation there over time. So there’s a lot of information on how you can test your pages to make sure that Google can understand them.
Also, server-side rendering is not a requirement there for JavaScript SEO.
Google can render JavaScript based pages for the most part.
Like John mentioned before, sometimes it’s a bit tricky, and it’s worth double-checking, but they have the testing tools that they can try out.
Perhaps their setup also works well just by default. Many of the JavaScript frameworks really just work without any specific changes being required.
This happens at approximately the 50:25 mark in the video.
John Mueller Hangout Transcript
John (Submitted Question) 50:25
Let me just take maybe one quick one here, and then we go back to live questions: I have a website related to JavaScript and pre-rendering using Angular.
Currently, it’s impossible to change to server-side rendering and I’m wondering what other solutions for JavaScript SEO that I can try.
John (Answer) 50:37
So I would recommend taking a look at the videos on our YouTube channel from Martin Splitt. He’s essentially been focusing on the Java–JavaScript side of things around search. And he has a lot of information on what you can do to test your pages and make sure that they work well in search. We’ve also expanded the documentation there over time.
So that there’s a lot of information on how you can test to make sure that Google can understand your pages. And server-side rendering is not a requirement there. We can render JavaScript-based pages for the most part. Like I mentioned before, sometimes it’s a bit tricky, and it’s worth double-checking.
But we have the testing tools, you can try it out. Maybe your setup just works by default. A lot of the JavaScript frameworks, they essentially just work without any specific changes.
