Is using REACT SEO friendly?

[martin1970]

Hi Guys

Is REACT SEO friendly? Has anyone used REACT and what was the results? Or do you recommend something else that is better suited for SEO?

Many thanks for your help in advance.

Cheers

Martin

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Martin,

It can be, that's the actual answer. As React is using JavaScript to load its pages and load the content in most cases. Google and other search engines are able to read the content but it's always required in these cases to check what the actual result is. I've worked with many sites using React and it depends if they're using server or client-side rendering. Start there, to figure out what you can be using for your client/company. Some teams are really drawn to the client side rendering which is a little bit more dangerous as not always can Google see the actual content. In case of server-side rendering, I've seen it go well for most of these.

Let me know if you have any specific questions, happy to answer them!

Martijn.

[sb1030]

Thanks for discussing this, Martijn.

Aside from Google, is there any concern that other search engines would have issues rendering a JS website, whether the site uses React, Angular or another framework?

Thanks

-SB

[wrhong7]

I have doing some research on this issue since there are lots of mixed opinion on this. Per my friends who work on this matter closely, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo should all be able to fetch the React based single page applications.

Custom Mat Board (which cuts customized mat boards for any Amazon or IKEA picture frames) is a React based application, and it works well. Please check out Fetch as Google and note if there are any major difference between what Google bot sees and what humans can see. If there are significant differences, you should do something about it. But per my experience, Google bots and humans do see the same thing.

PM me if you have any questions. Cheers!

WJ