SSR for SPA

[ZozoMe]

Hi Guys,

We are operating a Single Page Application at the moment and are having difficulty to make the website rank. We are using Server Side Rendering when the user is landing on one of our SEO relevant landing page. But if the user is clicking on any link, then after clicking, the content that he gets is only client side rendered. Our assumption is that the Google Bot is going to do the following :

1. Land on a page AAA, that will be server side rendered (all good)
2. Navigate through the link existing on the page AAA and be exposed to the content of page BBB
3. Since content of page BBB is client side rendering only, then the Bot will not be able to properly understand what it is.
4. => Hence still able to crawl it but it won't rank it well.

Here our questions :

• Because SEO is critical to us, should we try to force SSR after a click ?
• How does the robot opens links ? Is it : open new tab behavior ? Because this would trigger SSR on our side.

Looking forward for your feedback

[NickSamuel]

Hi there,

This is a tremendously complicated question to answer I'm afraid

The best thing I could advise you to do is to use Google Search Console and do some fetch and renders as Google.

Here are my thoughts:

• **Because SEO is critical to us, should we try to force SSR after a click ? **

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you basically mean, create additional page? If that's the case, then creating "static" pages would have make a lot of sense if you want to rank for these keywords.

• **How does the robot opens links ? Is it : open new tab behavior ? Because this would trigger SSR on our side. **

I'd suspect your best bet would be a combination of fetch and render from Search Console and checking your server logs; I don't personally think the "open new tab" behaviour is relevant here as a robot crawls the site after all.

Hopefully this starts the discussion so someone else can give you a better answer.

Nick