All Script And Tols For Free: 🔍 Diving deep into Core Web Vitals

🔍 Diving deep into Core Web Vitals

Jul 22, 2020

Good morning, search marketers, now's a good time to get familiar with Web Vitals,

With Google set to prioritize UX factors starting next year with the roll out of the Page Experience Update, understanding the underlying Core Web Vital metrics and how to analyze them will be key for SEOs and developers alike. Detlef Johnson has been digging into the new metrics and shares several key learnings about lab vs. field data, troubleshooting reporting and more in our new Guide to Core Web Vitals.

Later today, Detlef will kick off the three-day SEO for Developers series at 1:00 p.m. ET. Today, Anthony Muller, President of ZenSEM, and Kaitlyn Meurin, Director of SEO and Content Strategy at Southern New Hampshire University, and Detlef will discuss the marketer and developer relationship and how the two groups can communicate more effectively. Then Russ Jeffery, Director of Strategic Integrations at Duda, will talk about SEO friendly mark-up. Join live to listen in and get your questions answered. Register here for any of the sessions.

On the news front …

GSC now shows News tab traffic (note: this doesn't include the Top Stories carousel)
Microsoft Advertising is rolling out access to free Shutterstock images for Audience ads and image extensions.
Bing is out with a WordPress plugin to submit content immediately to its index.
With the EU striking down Privacy Shield, U.S. martech vendors, platforms, brands and marketers can no longer transfer EU citizen data to U.S. servers.
Google's site: command was acting up.

Keep reading for a look at Google's URL parameters tool and more.

Ginny Marvin,
Editor-In-Chief

Pro Tip

E-commerce sites and Google's URL parameters tool

"Google might not always respect the rules in the URL Parameters tool," says Chris Long, a Technical SEO at Go Fish Digital, after running a test.

"Of course, this isn't to say that Google is always ignoring the URL parameters report. However, in this particular instance, we can see that it might be the case. If you're an e-commerce site, I would recommend not making assumptions about how Google's crawling your parameters and check the log files to confirm crawl activity."

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Search Shorts

Robots.txt, biking, duplicate content and user agents.

Special files in robots.txt. Google has a new short video on the question of special files in your robots.txt file. The video goes over special files in robots.txt such as *.css, php.ini, and .htaccess, and explains why you should not disallow these files from being crawled.

Google Maps and bikes. Now you can find bikeshare docks and availability in your biking directions in the Google Maps app. This is now rolling out in select cities.

Duplicate content and site migrations. "There's no need to worry about duplicate content if you're migrating it from one site to another," John Mueller of Google said.

GoogleBot UA. Google said the user agent will still be passed by GoogleBot despite what Chrome may be doing with its user agents.

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