Technical SEO & JavaScript

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Claims that client‑side rendering works because Google renders with an evergreen Chromium renderer (ES6 is fine) and that render queue delays are short since 2020. Advises using the history API over hash routing — fragment URLs break crawling — and fixing soft 404s by returning proper HTTP status or redirecting instead of showing an error within a 200 page. These concrete fixes target crawling and indexing rather than vague ranking advice.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:38What is SEO?
3. 0:58SEO is...
4. 2:08What search engines do, roughly
5. 4:08First things first: We need URLS.
6. 5:50Render queue time
7. 6:25Soft errors: JS drives content
8. 6:35Use a redirect to avoid a soft error

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