Jamie Indigo

@jammer_volts
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She/they; Wicked Witch of the JS; author of #RichSnippets; Tabaxi/Rogue; Public Speaker; I go down 🐇🕳 & learn in public. Posts are my own nonsense
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Personal sitehttps://not-a-robot.com/
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@methode
and co added a new library to the awesome open source Google robots txt parser We've added it to @jammer_volts
& mine's robots.txt tool here: https://tamethebots.com/tools/robotstxt-checker

The last column now shows robots.txt status, lines parsed, How many valid directives that robots.txt file has, and any ones that are not understood, for each URL tested.
#seo #robotstxt

robots.txt Testing Tool

Test a list of URLs against a live or custom robots.txt file, using Google's open source parser.

Tame The Bots
Magic school bus entering my brain on a field trip 🧠🚌
Me every time I have to navigate and inevitably get us lost: "You were warned."
The robots.txt tester is going away, replaced by the much better search console experience, there is one thing that hasn't come across, which is the ability to test specific rules in advance. This tool that @jammer_volts & I did does let you, using the google open-sourced parser: https://tamethebots.com/tools/robotstxt-checker
#robots.txt #seo
robots.txt Testing Tool

Test a list of URLs against a live or custom robots.txt file, using Google's open source parser.

Tame The Bots

@lizzi no dumb questions!

Do max-image-preview:large images need to be called as an on page resource?

Should that image also be the one used in JSON-LD markup?

Over the weekend I put together a template for auditing accessibility for SEOs. It is a working document and I will continue to add to it. It also includes a tab for developers with activities that go outside an SEO's scope.

You can access it here each suggestion has a supporting article for you to back up your reasoning/learn more.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FMQ3588AdxRJO17oNm1t7LriYwULRUOOCpE6P6pZ4jE/edit?usp=sharing

I've also put together a supporting article;
https://billiegeena.co.uk/auditing-for-accessibility

Let me know if you find this helpful!

SEO Accessibility Template with Resources

Introduction Hello and Welcome my fellow SEOs and Developers, This is a working document where I will continue to add in ways you can include accessibility in to your workflow If you think something is missing or are looking for something specific please get in touch with my via <a href="htt...

Google Docs

Adbots doesn't care about your wildcard user-agent directives. Special-case user agents may simply ignore your robots.txt directives.

You'll need to check your logs to see if the special-use case user-agents are the gremlins in your crawl budget.

https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/special-crawlers.json

@lizzi are tools like Rich Results and mobile-friendly test crawlers or fetchers?
[ref: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers bc I have a tendency to assume you do all the things]
Google Crawler (User Agent) Overview | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers

Google crawlers discover and scan websites. This overview will help you understand the common Google crawlers including the Googlebot user agent.

Google for Developers
I love it when I get to nerd out with smart people.
https://youtu.be/Yfsi8Jp2yFI
SEO Auditing Large Websites

YouTube

Did you know you can start measuring CWVs on Single Page Applications in Chrome? I just wrote an article to guide you through it.

Spoiler alert: this is still an experimental feature, but it's a super exciting first step to measure CWV on sites developed with this popular architecture.

Have you tried it yet?

https://estelafranco.com/blog/spa-cwv/

How to measure CWVs on SPAs

One of the hardest questions to answer related to Core Web Vitals is how to masure them in a Single-Page Application (SPA).