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http://www.brombone.com

It's a service that solves SEO for javascript driven websites.

For the most part, Google can't crawl sites that manipulate the DOM using javascript (AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, etc). The solution is to use a headless browser to make html snapshots for all your pages and serve those to Google instead of the page that requires javascript.

This turns out to be a bit of a pain in practice. So, BromBone does it for you. It generates, hosts, and updates the html snapshots. When Googlebot visits your site, you proxy the snapshot from BromBone and serve it to Google. Now Google can see the same thing your users see.




Huh. I totally thought Google would penalize your ranking for trying something like that. Have you heard of that happening at all?


This method follows Google's own guidelines on Making AJAX website crawable.

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/




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