Single Page Applications and

SEO / Shareable Content

Jaime Bueza@jbueza

@Battlefy

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What is ?• eSports management platform that enables

people to easily organize, manage, and watch competitive online gaming...

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The ProblemWeb Front-End

• Built as a static site (Just HTML/CSS/JS, CORS to talk to API)

• Sharing out links rendered a blank HTML page with generic titles and descriptions

• Crawlers like Facebook, Slackbot, Twitter, Google have JavaScript disabled, grabbing dynamic content was impossible...until...

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Prerender.io

• Plugin middleware for NodeJS, Ruby, Java, .NET.

• Configurations for Apache, Nginx

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Angular UI Router

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The Solution

Prerender.io

Crawlers

Users

Web Front-End

PhantomJS, Snapshot HTML

Detect Bot Proxy Pass to Prerender

Set snapshot flag to false until ready Set the proper meta info, graph content Set the snapshot flag to true

?_escaped_fragment_=

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Facebook before Prerender

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Facebook with Prerender

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Twitter with Prerender

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Google Search Results

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In Three Months...

• Google Search Traffic increased by 310.1%.

• 55,000+ pages indexed on Google now which includes Tournaments, Brackets, Teams, Matches, Organizers, User Profiles.

• Facebook referral traffic increased by 449.1%

• Twitter referral traffic increased by 197.4%

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• We're Hiring Full Stack Engineers!

• AngularJS, Grunt, SASS, Automated UI Tests

• Continuous Deployment, Git, Docker, NodeJS, AWS, MongoDB, Redis, Elastic Search, Neo4j

• Join our mission! Let's boldly define eSports!

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