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Does the simple api block googlebot? I'm getting t...

wallslide

01/18/2018, 7:29 AM

Does the simple api block googlebot? I'm getting the same issue as reported here https://www.graph.cool/forum/t/seo-and-googlebot/188/2 Unfortunately there was no definitive answer

wallslide

01/18/2018, 7:31 AM

@nilan, I'm trying to get my site to be more SEO friendly, and being unable to have events on my site crawled by googlebot due to the graphcool API being

Temporarily unreachable

is putting a damper on that 😅

huv1k

01/18/2018, 7:45 AM

Ssr?

wallslide

01/18/2018, 7:48 AM

No, I'm using a create-react-app based site. The parts that don't require graphcool data are crawled and rendered by google just fine... event fairly complex pages

wallslide

01/18/2018, 7:49 AM

but using google's search console 'fetch as google' tool, I can see that googlebot isn't pulling the data from graphcool properly, and it's reporting that the

<https://api.graph.cool/simple/v1/******>

url can't be accessed because it is

Temporarily unreachable

huv1k

01/18/2018, 8:18 AM

But you can avoid that with SSR a lot of search engines don't support crawling javascript apps

wallslide

01/18/2018, 8:33 AM

for now if I could just get it working on google I'd be happy. I worry that switching to an SSR friendly framework would be a lot of work/refactoring

wallslide

01/18/2018, 8:34 AM

if googlebot really is blocked from accessing the simple api, then I think my next course of action is using algolia to supply the data instead on those pages

wallslide

01/18/2018, 8:47 AM

When I proxied the request through netlify's rewrite rules (https://www.netlify.com/docs/redirects/#proxying) it worked, which makes me think that requests from googlebot are being blocked for some reason by graphcool

lkbr

01/18/2018, 9:03 AM

I had the same "temporarily unreachable" problem. And came to the same conclusion as you @wallslide. It would be nice to know if GC are blocking indexing deliberately.

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lkbr

01/18/2018, 9:06 AM

SSR is not always an option. And even if Google is the only one to index JS based pages, their market share is a great start.

lkbr

01/18/2018, 9:32 AM

I replied to the original forum post you mentioned hoping for a solution.

lkbr

01/18/2018, 9:32 AM

https://www.graph.cool/forum/t/seo-and-googlebot/188/

wallslide

01/18/2018, 9:32 AM