SEO Question for Static Front Page Anvil App

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The SEO question for Anvil has been asked quite a bit. It’s clear that the SEO situation for Anvil is client-side rendering and that server-side rendering would solve this. But this is a major change and honestly something that in the current state is totally understandable.

My question is about a static landing page and the SEO for that. If an Anvil form is made entirely of static resources would the content be crawlable by Google?

My idea is to have a static landing page in Anvil and then a login with dynamic content behind that. I obviously don’t care about data being crawled behind the login, but having the front page crawlable is important.

Would a workaround be loading a custom HTML file as the front form?

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Well, I basically answered my own question. I found an old app I made that was indexed by Google and the front page that is static seems to be captured fine. So having a static front page should be no problem for SEO!

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Just a question from your question, did you make your static landing page on the main domain name, say https://example.com for quick loading, and then once the user clicks the login button, load your complete anvil app on https://example.com/home ? If so, did you assign these at the DNS level or is there another way?

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