So after at least a month or so of serving the SPA ( Full JS version ) of discourse I’ve gone back to the crawler version.
You can refer to my post history but I was making the argument that Google may understand the JS version and rank it better than the crawler version. I was wrong.
Hey @j127 you were correct! ( will be PMing you good sir )
Seems Google did figure out the site, but it just ranked it about the same ( if not slightly lower )
The crawler version was also updated back in April/May as far as the link colors, format etc. so thats a nice help
IMHO if we were to add a simple menu and the “suggested topics” to the crawler version it would make a nice difference to everyone’s SEO.
Other than that, I just wanted to put this out there just in case anyone was curious.
Great work guys!