Will Nye

Technical Director @Builtvisible | Building insanely useful SEO apps 🛠️ | @sejournal columnist ✍️ | Python enthusiast 🐍 | Tweets about SEO, automation & data.

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@JohnMorabitoSEO @salumuramazani1 might be able to help you out with the French.

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@LeeFootSEO Nice :). Are EditDistance and RapidFuzz both using Levenshtein?

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@chris_at_b449 @timsoulo @siquanong @rmitkow @MrAndyRich @freeg131 @SeanBeggFlint @_ImogenDavies_ @Lauraontheweb @henrydowding Sure, works for me! Our office is Old Street but happy to come to central if thats easier.

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@PaulDavidMadden As an alternative to Semrush/Ahrefs, DataforSEO has some fairly chunky keyword databases per market. Unsure if you can filter based on SV during the initial call -- worth checking.

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@HenRichBcnHh Shadow DOM issues I actually haven't come across in the wild personally, which isn't to say they don't happen. Potentially just less common.

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Working at @Builtvisible, you get exposure to A LOT of sites using JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc). In fact, I realised I’d audited ~20 sites in the past 18 months.🤯

Here are the most common JavaScript SEO issues I found, ranked.👇

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@HenRichBcnHh Historically I've taken the attitude thay fixing for gbot will sort for bing -- given minimal market share it didn't seem worth focusing on individually. However, with recent chatgpt announcements, maybe that will chnage in the future.

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@darth_na Nice :D

I know what you're saying about libraries. It's always easier to add in another library that does something to save a small amount of time than to code it yourself, but obviously if you do that excessively, performance: 📉

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If you're an SEO who works with JS heavy sites I’d love to hear what issues you commonly run into 🤔 -- let me know!

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3. All sites had at least 1 JS related issue, with an average of 2 issues. However, it's important to note that a few outliers skewed things. The mode number of issues was actually 1 – so it certainly isn’t the case that all JS heavy sites are “bad for SEO” as sometimes implied.

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Soft 404 issues caused by incorrect error handling ⛔️ – 32% of sites

Error pages return a 200 (OK) status code rather than a 404 (Not Found).