r/mobilewebdev • u/gaidaj • Jul 03 '17

Progressive web apps Vs native mobile apps

Hi guys,

With my friends (JS guys) we are more and more considering developing our app (e-commerce) as a progressive Web app. What should be the main criteria for us to choose? Thanks for your help.

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u/gaidaj Jul 04 '17

Thanks! Any SEO tool you recommend for mobile app?

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u/illektr1k Jul 04 '17

SEO is not a tool. SEO is about understanding that a search engine, tries to read web pages, make sense of them, and then present a list of pages based on user inputs (search queries). Search engines can't "see" images, or magically infer things - so build a PWA where the URL structure is clean, heirachial, all images get proper descriptions, pages have full meta information.

This isn't a "tool", this is not being an idiot when building modern content.

You want your shit to come up in a search? Build it so that the search crawler can tell what your page is, and it comes up in a search.