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: Google crawler and dynamic websocket website I have a a big problem that I'm only considering after I have finished development of a webpage. My page is written with only a skeleton HTML. All

@Shanna517

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I have a a big problem that I'm only considering after I have finished development of a webpage. My page is written with only a skeleton HTML. All the actual content of my site is sent through websockets. The client-side JavaScript then captures this information and dynamically builds the page.

I did this for the purpose of having everything being able to be changed quickly and in real time via my websocket instructions.

All the code functions without errors. However I have just found out that when I fetch with Google crawler, all that the bot sees is the base HTML with no content.

I'm not sure what ways I can use to get around this? Am I stuffed because of this approach I used? Changing this will mean a whole overhaul of my architecture. Can anyone please give me some suggestions as to how I can get the Google cralwer to pick up on this dynamic content? Is there a way I can tell when Google crawls my site and render things on the get request rather than websocket?

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@Smith883

All right let's understand this problem slightly more in detail.

Google does relatively good job indexing JS / AJAX content in compare to other search engines but it will also depens on the implementation as it can impact how Google sees your content.

Honestly, if you got a long term vision for your website to perform well in search engines then you might have to think about your implementation more seriously.

One thing is for sure, even AJAX content could be crawled, it might be very hard to rank considering other site might better structure.

Another point to consider is, Google may do fine job reading AJAX content but other search engines may not do that well.

It's an old video but you may wanna watch:


You might have to explain slightly more in detail, how your dynamic content loads in the page to see the possibility getting it indexed.

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