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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 , Tiffany Kroll , Zsolt Varga and 2 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 , Tiffany Kroll
    Updated on : 18 Jul 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 1 others
    Updated on : 01 Sep 2023

    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
    Updated on : 19 May 2023

    Support

    Access to Support All Prerender.io subscriptions include support for billing and general account management issues like login problems. There are two ways to reach out to us: Dashboard Once you log in to your account, you will find two bu...
    Written by Raquel Heyman
    Updated on : 19 May 2023