# Adding Support for Search Engines to your Javascript Applications

DevFeed: [Adding Support for Search Engines to your Javascript Applications](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adding-support-for-search-engines-to-your-javascript-applications-40620.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eviltrout.com/blog/2013-06-19-adding-support-for-search-engines-to-your-javascript-applications/>)

Published: 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Robin Ward](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/robin-ward.md>)

Topics: [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [mvc](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mvc.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [HTML5](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html5.md>), [Internet Explorer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet-explorer.md>)

Tags: [html5](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html5.md>), [internet-explorer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet-explorer.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [mvc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mvc.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to improve search-engine visibility for JavaScript applications, especially those using client-side MVC frameworks. It discusses pretty URLs, the HTML5 History API, server routing, and serving content for search engines, while noting that Google's JavaScript indexing changed the relevance of the earlier noscript-based approach.

## Source excerpt

Important Update (May 25, 2014): Google has started parsing and indexing Javascript. The approach of this article is to use <noscript> tags but Google will likely ignore those now. We upgraded our site to sniff Google and other popular search engines and serve our simple content that way. However, in the future it might not be a concern as Google plan on having Javascript sites just work! It's a myth that if you use a client side MVC framework that your application's content cannot be indexed by search engines. In fact, Discourse forums were indexable by Google the day we launched.