Will Google crawl and rank our ReactJS website content?
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We have 250+ products dynamically inserted and sorted on our site daily (more specifically our homepage... yes, it's a long page). Our dev team would like to explore rendering the page server-side using ReactJS.
We currently use a CDN to cache all the content, which of course we would like to continue using.
SO... will Google be able to crawl that content?
We've read some articles with different ideas (including prerendering):
http://andrewhfarmer.com/react-seo/
http://www.seoskeptic.com/json-ld-big-day-at-google/If we were to only load the schema important to the page (like product title, image, price, description, etc.) from the server and then let the client render the remaining content (comments, suggested products, etc.), would that go against best practices? It seems like that might be seen as showing the googlebot 1 version and showing the site visitor a different (more complete) version.
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What exactly are you planning to render server-side? In principle, you shouldn't have anything to worry about if you render everything server-side, provided the rendering isn't so slow that it affects Google's measures of page speed.
What do you see when you use the 'Fetch and Render' feature in Search Console at present?
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Google does crawl JavaScript, and they do index it. Googlebot is really a form of the Chrome web browser, so they will see the information that you give to them and most likely the other remaining content. Keep in mind that cloaking is against their guidelines, so may get the site penalized.
I would go ahead and give Google and all visitors the full content.
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