App published via HCP: how to make it search-/findable on Google etc.

[danreg]

HI folks,

following situation: We have created an SAPUI5 app and want to publish it on HCP (all necessary steps have been done). What needs to be done that this app can be searched and found on search engines (like Google).

Please advise.

Thanks and regards Daniel

[Qualiture · Accepted solution]

I think you are on to a pretty difficult, not to say impossible, task here...

Since virtually all SAPUI5 applications are 1) single-page-applications and 2) rely heavily on Javascript and 3) don't have real content inside the plain DOM, it will be pretty hard to have Google successfully (and sufficiently!) index your application

One thing you should do for sure, is make sure your routing mechanism creates unique URL's (i.e., each page in your app should have their own URL)

But then, there should be something to index for the crawler as well. And since most UI5 data is retrieved via AJAX calls, this will be difficult : A browser can execute Javascript, but a crawler cannot!

If you are able to make 'html snapshots' of your application, you "might" be able to have something indexed...

However, as I'm no SEO expert, I'm all ears to hear some success stories

[jamie_cawley]

In the index page you can add meta description and title tags that contain searchable terms.  You can also register pages with each search engine using a sitemap.

Regards,

Jamie

SAP - RIG