The Automatic Development of SEO-Friendly Single Page Applications Based on HIJAX Approach

In this study, we provide a method and develop a library for the automatic development of single-page web applications or SPA–based websites. The SPA–based websites run AJAX calls and client-side scripts while search engines do not run scripts within pages. Thus, SPA–based websites are not completely indexed by search engine crawlers. It is necessary that all AJAX requests in web applications can also be requested by static links. We propose a method that suggests all ajax fine-grained calls are also indicated in links URLs. This method allows us to design a SEO-friendly SPA-based website without any client-side programming. Moreover, a new feature is provided that helps to load several pages, as subpages, inside a page in both server-side and client-side. This nested loading can be repeated without any limitation. Each page’s (or subpage’s) URL, as a client-side application state presentation, has a specific query string parameter which specifies its subpages’ addresses. Besides, all links inside the page have a specific query string parameter which indicates the application state of the client-side.