genuine-status-code.md

Return Genuine Status Code

• For more detailed documentation see spiderable-middleware package repository

Returning genuine status code is very important for indexing by search engines. Most of the front-end JavaScript frameworks returns the same page to every request with 200 OK status code, mean 404 pages rendered in a browser is returned with 200status to the web crawlers.

To return expected response code — use this HTML comment. This comment can be placed in any part of HTML-page. head or body tag is the best place for it.

Format:

html:

<!-- response:status-code=404 -->

jade:

// response:status-code=404

Use any standard or custom status codes:

• 201 - <!-- response:status-code=201 -->
• 401 - <!-- response:status-code=401 -->
• 403 - <!-- response:status-code=403 -->
• 500 - <!-- response:status-code=500 -->
• 514 - <!-- response:status-code=514 --> (non-standard)

Result: