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The Automatic Development of SEO-Friendly Single Page Applications Based on HIJAX Approach

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Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2017 (WISE 2017)

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In this study, we provide a method and develop a library for the automatic development of single-page web applications or SPA–based websites. The SPA–based websites run AJAX calls and client-side scripts while search engines do not run scripts within pages. Thus, SPA–based websites are not completely indexed by search engine crawlers. It is necessary that all AJAX requests in web applications can also be requested by static links. We propose a method that suggests all ajax fine-grained calls are also indicated in links URLs. This method allows us to design a SEO-friendly SPA-based website without any client-side programming. Moreover, a new feature is provided that helps to load several pages, as subpages, inside a page in both server-side and client-side. This nested loading can be repeated without any limitation. Each page’s (or subpage’s) URL, as a client-side application state presentation, has a specific query string parameter which specifies its subpages’ addresses. Besides, all links inside the page have a specific query string parameter which indicates the application state of the client-side.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Univ. Amirkabir (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran

    Siamak Hatami

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  1. University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW, Australia

    Athman Bouguettaya

  2. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Yunjun Gao

  3. Institute of Computing for Physics and Technology, Protvino, Russia

    Andrey Klimenko

  4. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lu Chen

  5. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

    Xiangliang Zhang

  6. Institute of Computing for Physics and Technology, Protvino, Russia

    Fedor Dzerzhinskiy

  7. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Minhang Qu, China

    Weijia Jia

  8. Institute of Computing for Physics and Technology, Protvino, Russia

    Stanislav V. Klimenko

  9. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Qing Li

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Hatami, S. (2017). The Automatic Development of SEO-Friendly Single Page Applications Based on HIJAX Approach. In: Bouguettaya, A., et al. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2017. WISE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10570. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68786-5_15

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