Latest Best Practices for Single Page Applications

[edmundsseo]

What are the latest best practices for SPA (single page application) experiences?

Google is obviously crawling Javascript now, but is there any data to support that they crawl it as effectively as they do static content?

Considering Bing (and Yahoo) as well as social (FB, Pinterest, etc) - what is the best practice that will cater to the lowest-common denominator bots and work across the board?

Is a prerender solution still the advised route?

Escaped fragments with snapshots at the expanded URLs, with SEO-friendly URL rewrites?

[lovemozforever]

It's always hard to do something with one page, especially if its written in JavaScript.

You can take a look at this amazing guide about JavaScript, Indexing and Crawling.

I hope it helps.

[DonnaDuncan]

Maybe this will help. iProspect has a solution using jQuery. I haven't tried it myself. Perhaps others can chime in and offer an opinion.

[evolvingSEO]

Escaped fragments are not recommended by Google anymore. Google now recommends Progressive Enhancement such as the History API pushState. See this article for details:

https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html

Here's another post that you may want to check out:

https://builtvisible.com/javascript-framework-seo/

-Dan