Let’s say you have a lot of crawl budget assigned to your domain and you want to use it to benchmark your own Core Web Vital metrics against your direct competitors. Using Chrome UX report APIs is OKish for domain level metrics but you obviously want more data.
Continue readingJavaScript will define and impact the future of most SEO consultants. A big chunk of websites has, is or will move over to a JS framework driven platform. Stack Overflow published an extensive study about the data gathered from an enquiry amongst more than 100.000 professional programmers’ most used Programming, Scripting and Markup languages: read more at Most Popular Technologies The outcome is quite clear, it’s all about JavaScript today:
But JavaScript and search engines are a tricky combination. It turns out there is a fine line between successful and disastrous implementations. Below I will share 10 tips to prevent SEO disasters to happen with your own or your clients sites.
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Last week Google published a handy overview about Rendering on the Web in their developers section. It is aimed at developers needing to make a decision about the architecture they will use for their JavaScript driven applications. The main decision that affects logic within apps is the way rendering is set up. SSR, CSR, Rehydration and prerendering: they describe the different terminology in detail and align the advantages or disadvantages of using the different scenario’s. This overview is resulting in the following handy table:
Many of my (former) clients have great content teams working on optimizing websites. Sending them a spreadsheet of data with some fancy click through ratios for keywords or URLs that perform better or worse than other datapoints will not get them enthousiastic at all. Sending them a fancy interactive graph in Data Studio will get them to work (not a 100% success ratio!) on boring things like optimizing meta descriptions and titles. So how can you spend 5 minutes of your time on Data Studio and make your life as a marketer much easier? Follow the instructions below.