bug: page cannot be indexed by Google about name-variant-search HOT 9 CLOSED

I added description and robots. Let's give googlebot some time to update and see if it improves things.

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Also verified the site ownership in google's search console, so if it continues to not be indexed, I can see why in https://search.google.com/search-console

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I don't think viewport should affect SEO, but I added it.

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So googlebot says the page is a "soft 404" which I think is a result of the page doing a load-and-then-render on the client side. The initial page load is just a couple lines of text so Google says... this is an error page or something.

fwiw, it's first or second result on duck duck go. I updated this issue accordingly and will try to get a fix shipped this week.

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Does having a static header and only the dynamic rendered after loading solve it?

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This is what we have currently and there's even a link, but that's not enough apparently.

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I configured webpack to omit the standard "defer" attribute from the javascript bundle which should block the initial page render until the script is done loading, at the cost of a few extra microseconds of page load time.

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Can you search the google search console access with me?

googling site:https://bellingcat.github.io/name-variant-search shows results => it's indexed, just not prominently

I saw this is also important:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

Maybe some more keywords etc?

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it seems to be indexed now

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