On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:28:45AM -0700, Chris Tweney wrote: > Nico-- > > This is a long, well-thought out post. I haven't had time to digest > everything. But I do want to respond to this particular item: > > > Having said that, I do support the need for being able to do some > > server-side rendering, but almost exclusively because of Google and > > indexability purposes, and to a lesser extent for creating initial views > > on slower devices. However, having to redo a significant chunk of our > > templates to support this seems like a waste of time at this point. > > Therefore, similar to Eli's suggestion, I've been working on a > > proof-of-concept that uses Node.js to render the initial widget view > > either server or client side. In the PoC, Node.js detects whether or not > > it's a search engine spider, and if so, renders the initial view > > server-side. > > We need to be careful here. Detecting search spiders and serving them > different content is called cloaking, and it's against Google's terms of > service. It can get you blacklisted out of search results. See [1] for > the official Google policy. > > Re-using the existing templates sounds like a good idea. Why not cache > the initial page views on the server side once Node.js has rendered > them? Then we could serve the cached copy to everybody, spider and human > alike.
This is very interesting, as our attempts to better show the search engine the actual content would be seen as trickery to obscure our content from the search engine. I like the idea though of having the server side at least put some reasonable content in the page for everyone. That way the search engines, users with javascript disabled in their browsers, and weirdos like me who occasionally use browsers like elinks (http://elinks.or.cz/) could get something other than a blank page. > > [1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355 > > -chris > > _______________________________________________ > oae-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev -- D. Stuart Freeman Georgia Institute of Technology
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