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Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization

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Re: Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization

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Easily the funniest link on this site this year.

Yeah I mean, sure SEO isn't exactly rocket science...but it's a little more than making a URL crawl-able....

Being crawlable might not be sufficient, but it sure is necessary! :D

Re: Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization

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Why is this interesting? Because 1) search engine crawlability matters and 2) the more AJAXy web apps get, the harder it is to make them crawlable.

The more we move away from traditional web "pages" to rich web apps that do everything through DOM manipulations on a single page, the harder it is for the search engine robots to crawl what we build.

Re: Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization

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Their technique for generating the HTML representation of deep-link into a Meteor app is to run the entire client app in a headless browser and serialize the generated DOM?!

This is an area of vital importance to public, JS-based RIAs, and needs some real innovation. Why even bother delivering this half-baked solution? The processing cost makes it untenable for all but the tiniest of URL-spaces.

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