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Does <Link> from react-router-dom Affect SEO Compared to <a> Tags in React TSX?

I am building a React website using TypeScript and react-router-dom <Link to="/page"> for navigation. Instead of using <a href="/page">, I am using <Link to="/page"> to enable faster client-side navigation.

My questions are:

  1. Does using <Link> instead of <a> impact SEO, considering search engines rely on static HTML for crawling?
  2. Do I need to implement server-side rendering (SSR) or pre-rendering to ensure that search engines properly index my site's pages?

I’d appreciate any insights on best practices for SEO in a React-based Single Page Application (SPA). Thanks!

Solution

  • Since no one knows for sure can search engines crawl and parse content from SPA you have to use SSR/SSG for your website for SEO. Answering your main question, no, there's no difference since Link renders as a 'a' HTML tag.