AngularJS SEO

Abstract

In previous chapters, we covered the process of building an AngularJS application from front-end to back-end services. It’s easy to see why AngularJS is popular, with its millions of available libraries, ease of use, and ability to build code that can be deployed on any device. However, many developers and companies still refuse to use AngularJS due to a lack of understanding, SEO and thought that AngularJS can not be crawled by search engines the same as other HTML static pages. In this chapter, we will walk you through the steps of how to set your site to be SEO friendly, so that the robots can crawl and display the pages as if you built a purely HTML site. Sure, Google has updated their crawler and can now execute JavaScript, but other search crawlers, as well as social media web sites, still crawl pages after being rendered by JavaScript, so you will still need to create a static HTML page for the best SEO results.