Make GWT Crawlable (SEO)

Question

I like to make my GWT-App crawlable by the google bot. I found this article (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/). It states there should be a servlet filter, that serves a different view to the google bot. But how can this work? If i use for example the activities and places pattern, than the page changes are on the client-side only and there is no servlet involved -> servlet filter does not work here.

Can someone give me an explanation? Or is there another good tutorial tailored to gwt how to do this?

Answer 1

If you use Activities&Places your "pages" will have a bookmarkable URL (usually composed of the HTML host page, a #, and some tokens separated by ! or other character).

Thus, you can place links ('s) in your application to make it crawlable. If the link contains the proper structure (the one with # and tokens), it will navigate to the proper Place.

Have a look at https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideMvpActivitiesAndPlaces