🔍 CORRECT EDITION: How to audit Core Web Vitals

Plus, Bing launches misspelling interpreter

Feb 16, 2021 Good morning, Search Marketer, and let's talk Core Web Vitals, Since Google announced Core Web Vitals back in May 2020, many search marketers have focused on improving their page speeds and overall site function. It makes sense. To me, Core Web Vitals is another metric we can measure for overall user experience. We now have numbers to present to clients and stakeholders about why load times, interactivity, and visual stability matter. Others in search believe Core Web Vitals won't have that much of an impact on rankings, though. And that, much like https and mobile-first indexing, because Google announced it in advance, everyone will be implementing it before the launch. Some also believe that the metrics will only come into play with sites that have equal content footing. That is to say, if your content outdoes your competitors', then their better Core Web Vitals scores won't mean much in SERPs.  What do you think? Are Core Web Vitals a game-changer? Or just table stakes? Email me at clyden@thirddoormedia.com and let me know. Plus, check out the how-to guide below on auditing Core Web Vitals on yours sites. Carolyn Lyden Director of Search Content   SEO   How to audit Core Web Vitals Google told site owners in May that Core Web Vitals would become part of its algorithms in 2021, and most SEOs have been working to improve their metrics before the launch. This how-to guide by Tom Crewe walks you through a CWV audit using Screaming Frog and the PageSpeed Insights API. This method gives you an understanding of the size of the issues to better communicate the scope to clients: "95% of pages have a Largest Contentful Paint of over 4 seconds (fail)." Crewe also demonstrates how to give the numbers behind the fixes to help clients understand how prioritizing CWV may improve their site overall:  "For each of the recommendations you are making, you will also be able to see the 'Savings' that could be made by fixing that particular issue, either in bytes or milliseconds. Using your exported data for each issue, you can now add up the potential savings for each issue, and the average savings that could be made per page by resolving that issue, so you can make your recommendations for which issues to tackle first based on the amount of potential load savings that can be made." Read the guide here.   How data science can change the way you look at SEO Have you ever looked at SERPs, keyword trends, and behavior on your website, and wondered if you could predict how adding new pages would impact how often organic visitors from your website are converted to leads? Or wondered if you could pick up on industry trends in SERPs before your competitors? These questions are all part of data SEO. Data SEO is the rising field that brings data science methods of analysis to SEO. Learn how it can evaluate, predict, automate, or even influence different tasks or phenomena in SEO. Learn more »   SERPs   Microsoft launches AI to interpret and correct searcher spelling errors Did you know around 15% of queries searched online have spelling errors? That's according to an announcement last week from Microsoft Bing. Introducing their Speller100, the Bing engineering team hopes to cut down on the number of incorrect search results that come from search AI misunderstanding misspelled queries. "When queries are misspelled, we match the wrong set of documents and trigger incorrect answers, which can produce a suboptimal results page for our customers. Therefore, spelling correction is the very first component in the Bing search stack because searching for the correct spelling of what users mean improves all downstream search components," reads the announcement. The new addition to the AI corrects the spelling errors of queries in over 100 languages (up from just a few dozen before) helping the search engine better understand what users are looking for and thus serving up more relevant results. Bing's A/B testing revealed a 30% drop in searches with on results, a 5% reduction in searchers reformulating their queries, and an increase in the number of times users clicked on a search result. Why we care. Not only does Speller100 represent a move toward a better user experience for searchers, but it also means more relevant search results. For businesses, this is an opportunity to potentially drive a small increase in traffic when people are searching for products or services that you offer. It also means no need to focus on potential misspelled keywords.  Read the announcement here.   SMX Report kicks off NEXT WEEK… don't miss out! Your data is the key to unlocking search marketing success. Transforming it into valuable insights that drive more awareness, leads, and revenue is a skill all marketers need to master. Join us online, February 23, to learn actionable tactics for making data-driven decisions that yield measurable results! Register for only $149 »   Search shorts   Passage ranking is not something you can see in Google Search Passage ranking and scroll-to-text. Now that passage ranking is live in the US/English search results, there is a lot of confusion on how you can see these results. The answer is you cannot see them, it is a ranking change, not a visual change to the search results.  And no, the scroll-to-text feature you are seeing is not the passage rankings results, it is likely featured snippets, which are not passage ranking snippets. Valentine's Day Google Doodle. If you missed the Google Valentine's day Doodle, we have a screenshot of it above and you can learn more about it on this Google blog post. Small businesses and SEO. Google's John Mueller said when it comes to what he is seeing on small business websites and SEO these days, he said "I see, the fewer I see with technical SEO issues, and the more the issues lie with the content (stale, duplicated across multiple sites, incorrect, low-quality, etc). CMSs tend to get most technical things right (or "right enough") nowadays."   What We're Reading   We've curated our picks from across the web so you can retire your feed reader. Exclusive: Google's $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated – Reuters France fines Google 1.1 million euros over hotel rankings practices – Reuters Google bans ads for locksmiths in Belgian search results – Brussels Times Google Search Console New AMP Error disallowed !important CSS qualifier – Search Engine Roundtable Major Australian media company strikes Google news pay deal – AP News   https://searchengineland.com/ Information on Advertising/Sponsorship here. This email was sent to hamoulemouedda.shopingdznow@blogger.com. Unsubscribe. We respect your privacy. This email was sent by: Search Engine Land - a Third Door Media, Inc. publication with headquarters at 88 Schoolhouse Road, PO Box 3103, Edgartown, MA 02539 Manage my preferences. © 2006-2021 Third Door Media. All Rights Reserved.

 

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