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The web is changing. JavaScript frameworks like Durandal are rising and more and more applications are created this way, offering excellent user experiences. But, is the web ready for this movement? Let's just say that it's a "work in progress".
There are a lot of things we have to be aware of when developing a dynamic JavaScript application and one of the most important things is SEO. When we develop a Durandal application and make it available to the world, one of the first things we would like to see is the application being indexed by google. But without any configuration, the only thing we will see indexed is the root page of our site. What's the problem? I created one of my best web applications, the users love it, it's quick and optimized...but nobody can enjoy it because google can't see it.
What googlebot can see is our index page and nothing more, and the reason is because our content is generated dynamically and the web hasn't traditionally worked this way. We may think "times are changing" and Google should be aware about this...and of course it is. But to take advantage of it we have to make some changes in our application first.
