Does data-bind hurt SEO?
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sleepcountry.ca uses Oracle Commerce Cloud which uses Knockout data-binds syntax to attach events to DOM elements like this (A <a id="s0207useresourcesinwidgets01"></a>Knockout custom binding named ‘widgetLocaleText’ - I am not familiar this technology stack):
Same applies to H1 tag - you can't find H1 tag in Source.
In short, the text binding causes the associated DOM element to display the text value of your parameter. Data binding is applied to all DOM elements on pages of sleepcountry.ca even that this technique doesn't pass W3C markup validation: Error: Element
title
must not be empty.MOZ reports that all H1 Tags are missing on ALL PAGES of the site. Same is reported by Semrush and other respected services. However, it seems like Google automatically adds tagging to all data-bind(ed) elements including Title! site:sleepcountry.ca
I'm no expert in Oracle Commerce Cloud or Knockout, but I'm confused.
QUESTION: Does this data-bind hurt organic search and if it does, why Google still sees all TITLES while Moz and other services report it as a major problem - titles are missing. ?Thank you so much in advance! (I'm not an SEO expert but this problem might be related to my project)
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No problem! A good golden rule of JavaScript SEO is to always SSR where possible. Let me know if you have any other questions!
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Chris, thank you so much for your response. It looks like since client-side rendering is used, it builds virtual DOM and attaches events to make the page interactive, However, with SSR approach, the user could start viewing the page while all of that is happening. Since I'm reviewing the website performance, SSR should be generally faster than client side rendering to the user. Even if Google still indexes majority of pages it doesn't mean that those pages will be ranked high because of the delayed page load. Thank you for much for sending me to the right direction. I didn't think of this option before you responded.
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Basically those tools aren't reading the DOM but Google can which is why it can see your site's title tags, H1s etc. Your site is using client-side rendering which Google can crawl through. Notice how if you go to a given page and click "View Source", none of the page's content appears.
While it appears Google is reading the content in the pages I looked at, I would definitely look into this more to see if Google is able to crawl/index the content on all of your site's pages. Client side rendering is less reliable than SSR so there might be instances where Google isn't reading sections of your content.
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