How good is React for SEO?

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I get amazed all the time I see a good website on React.js. Visually and technically. These react sites are so beautiful and when you click other pages, you go to that page but nothing loads. Something like this - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

So, saying you have a brother who professionally does crypto sites, saas sites, single pages on React that doesn't really do SEO later on.

So is it a good idea to make him do a simple blog design like generatepress and start a niche site on it? Will it have any advantage over a generatepress site that you can set up in literally 3 minutes?
 
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notNewB said:
I get amazed all the time I see a good website on React.js. Visually and technically. These react sites are so beautiful and when you click other pages, you go to that page but nothing loads. Something like this - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

So, saying you have a brother who professionally does crypto sites, saas sites, single pages on React that doesn't really do SEO later on.

So is it a good idea to make him do a simple blog design like generatepress and start a niche site on it? Will it have any advantage over a generatepress site that you can set up in literally 3 minutes?
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I analyzed the example site I stated. The guy doesn't have any structured data added to any of his pages, I'm not sure if he has a sitemap either. Still, he is ranking for a lot of keywords and has decent traffic.
 
We need with people an experience :)
 
getseoonline said:
just stick to wordpress mate less hassle
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I have a dozen websites on wordpress. Just being curious about react based sites. The way look and work is on the next level.
 
Go with Nextjs. You will still be working with components, jsx and typescript. I'd go with Nextjs as it helps a lot with SEO which is important for a blog. It also has other benefits like server side rendering and more. https://nextjs.org/
 
Google recommends server side rendering because they have two separate crawls. One HTML only and one JS/CSS etc rendering. That's my understanding of it anyways.
 
notNewB said:
I analyzed the example site I stated. The guy doesn't have any structured data added to any of his pages, I'm not sure if he has a sitemap either. Still, he is ranking for a lot of keywords and has decent traffic.
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That site pages are lightweight and have proper metadata with updated content. Also, the site got a strong backlinks profile, what else requires to rank. Most of the rankings are SERP positions not a featured snippet, mostly featured snippet requires structured data. An xml sitemap is present on both header and footer.
 
React may help to create a more interactive site, but it won't improve SEO because you use React over another framework or wordpress
 
Website speed is a ranking factor so yes it does help. Also it improves user signals so that helps for rankings too.
The question is how much.
 
Google crawler doesn't care or give advantage when you use a certain language or framework.

The se crawler mainly parse the html of the web page and other css/js files. What really matters here is the usage of proper html tags, css properties and clear js.

Whatever framework you're using, you just need to be sure the generated page have the proper tags and structure.
 
The website looks sleek as fck, this requires serious testing to know the effect.
 
Check out a static site generator like HUGO. I am building my site with that this time instead of WordPress. It's a lot faster than WordPress and hosting is free through GitHub pages or google firebase up to like 10k monthly visitors.
 
notNewB said:
I get amazed all the time I see a good website on React.js. Visually and technically. These react sites are so beautiful and when you click other pages, you go to that page but nothing loads. Something like this - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

So, saying you have a brother who professionally does crypto sites, saas sites, single pages on React that doesn't really do SEO later on.

So is it a good idea to make him do a simple blog design like generatepress and start a niche site on it? Will it have any advantage over a generatepress site that you can set up in literally 3 minutes?
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A little bit off-topic, what if I cloned this website's design, will I be in trouble?
 
notNewB said:
I get amazed all the time I see a good website on React.js. Visually and technically. These react sites are so beautiful and when you click other pages, you go to that page but nothing loads. Something like this - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

So, saying you have a brother who professionally does crypto sites, saas sites, single pages on React that doesn't really do SEO later on.

So is it a good idea to make him do a simple blog design like generatepress and start a niche site on it? Will it have any advantage over a generatepress site that you can set up in literally 3 minutes?
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Wow! I don't feel the page navigation..
 
React is actually awesome for SEO as your site will get much better performance and you will be able to personalize each element on site and make it custom, according to your wishes. Sites that are made in React get the highest score on Google Lighthouse, so if you have the opportunity to make one, just go for it.
 
I wish they paid well for front end development. Unfortunately it's a subhuman role in terms of salaries. Almost nothing is feasible without back end skills, except things like this.


Go to github pages, use jekyll and your site can be like that right away, for free.

Sorry for being controversial.
 
notNewB said:
So, saying you have a brother who professionally does crypto sites, saas sites, single pages on React that doesn't really do SEO later on.

So is it a good idea to make him do a simple blog design like generatepress and start a niche site on it? Will it have any advantage over a generatepress site that you can set up in literally 3 minutes?
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his site would surely look better because he has a lot of design experience, and it would probably load faster too. on the other hand, if the page is made in a way you don't understand, whenever you have a problem you will need to ask for your brother's help, and your page will be down until he can fix it. making your brother work for free is the fast lane to him avoiding you as much as possible. people don't like doing time-consuming work for free, especially if they will have to offer free maintenance later.
 
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