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Understandin g JavaScript SEO Presented by

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Hi! We’re Gray Dot Co We’re into JavaScript SEO. And Headless SEO. And, really, all manner of needlessly complicated software stuff. SAM TORRES Chief Digital Officer Data & dev nerd SEO mermaid™ TORY GRAY Founder & CEO SEO & data nerd Puzzle enthusiast

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Sitebulb Site Auditing Tool Desktop & Cloud crawling Famously sweary release notes WTS Global Community Tech SEO Nerds Home to best members of all time On behalf of Sitebulb & WTS The very best sponsors a girl could ask for…

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● Understanding JavaScript SEO ● Auditing JS for SEO ● Prioritising & Explaining JS SEO Issues ● Bonus: Live Auditing Q&A (Exclusive to #WTS) What this series covers

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Auditing JavaScript SEO

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Step 1 - Preparation: Identify the stack Enable “Page Resources” & “Performance & Mobile Friendly > Parse Technologies” in the Project settings to see this data.

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Platforms & Frameworks: the big players ● React ○ NextJS ○ Gatsby ● Angular ● Vue ● Svelte

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Step 1 - Alt tools More great tools: Wappalyzer BuiltWith

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Non-platform: More places to look Example fields ● Menus (fly outs) ● Pagination ● Accordions ● Etc user-interactive fields Example tools ● Rich Snippet Testing tool ● View Rendered Source ● Web Developer (extension) ● NoJS Side-by-Side ● Inspect Element, View Source, Dev Console ● GSC URL Inspection

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Video credit: Sitebulb Step 2 - Site Audit: Macro JS Issues

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Step 3 - Micro JS SEO Issues

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Step 4 - (Optional) Troubleshoot JS SEO Issues

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Step 5 - Prepare Issue Insights for Eng

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Step 6 - Stage QA, Go-Live, Monitoring

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Questions? Share in the comments!

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Don’t forget! Next session…. Tuesday September 24th 4pm BST (11am ET)

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Thank you! LinkedIn /company/graydotco /company/sitebulb /company/techseowomen X (Formerly Twitter) @GrayDotCo @Sitebulb @techseowomen