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Getting Started
Let's cover the basics first - here you'll find best practices, and how we work.
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Written by Raquel Heyman , Irina Oancia , Tiffany Kroll and 3 others
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How does Prerender.io work?
Prerender.io is designed to speed up serving content to the search crawlers and thus improve your SEO score.
Prerender.io has to be integrated with your web server / backend / CDN to have a mechanism that determines which requests will be forwarde...
Written by Raquel Heyman , Irina Oancia , Tiffany Kroll
Updated on : 06 Oct 2023
Best Practices
Make sure you are returning the correct status codes to crawlers.
We have two special meta tags to put in the <head> to let you return a different status code or header to a crawler depending on your REST calls since your original HTML page will...
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Written by Raquel Heyman , Zsolt Varga , Irina Oancia and 2 others
Updated on : 06 Mar 2024
How to control crawling and indexing
There are two methods you can use to control crawling and indexing:
1. Robots.txt
This text file tells crawlers which URLs they can access on your side. Its purpose is to prevent your site from being overloaded with requests or to keep a file of...
Written by Raquel Heyman , Irina Oancia
Updated on : 19 May 2023
How to test your site after you have successfully validated your Prerender integration
First things first: we recommend using Chrome.
Open your desired URL
Open Dev tools (CTRL+Shift+J on Windows , Option + ⌘ + J on Mac)
Run command (Control + Shift + P on Windows, Command + Shift + P on Mac) - Show Network Condition...
Written by Raquel Heyman , Laszlo Takacs , Jacint Lazok
Updated on : 06 Mar 2024