What you need to know about Angular SEO

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Search engines, such as Google and Bing are engineered to crawl static web pages, not javascript-heavy, client-side apps. This is typical of a search engine which does not render javascript when the search bot is crawling over web pages.

This is because our javascript-heavy apps need a javascript engine to run, like PhantomJS or v8, for instance. Web crawlers typically load a web page without using a javascript interpreter.

Are we out of luck for providing good SEO for our Angular apps? This article will show you exactly what you need to know to get your app indexed today.

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