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The URL Inspection: What SEOs Needs to Know

The URL Inspection: What SEOs Needs to Know

Released Thursday, 9th July 2020
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The URL Inspection: What SEOs Needs to Know

The URL Inspection: What SEOs Needs to Know

Thursday, 9th July 2020
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All right, welcome everyone to today's special episode of asking Google webmasters and here today with a special guest Martin. Hi everyone and thanks for hosting us, John. So, in the ask Google Webmaster series we take questions that were submitted on Twitter using the hashtag ask google webmasters. Today's questions are on the topic of search console, and what SEOs need to know and SEOS strategy so let's get started give asks Googlebot seems to be rendering only a part of our pages. According to the search console, screenshots even after the recent evergreen Googlebot update question is it just the screenshot, or is there something faulty that I need to worry about. It's a good question and in order, to not just answer whether it depends, let me go a little bit into more detail. So if it's content that you care for that is really important to you and should make sure that it's actually rendered, but you should also check the rendered HTML source code. If it's not in the HTML, because maybe sometimes it's in the HTML it's not showing up on the screenshot because it's below the fold or something. So, make sure that it's in the Dom in the source code that we show. As rendered source code and also sometimes things just go wrong, so try and try again I guess, so if it's below the fold would it just not be shown but still be used for indexing. It's just, we have to cut the screen somewhere so we're gonna cut it where normally like especially if it's a mobile crawler where the screen for a mobile phone would end. 

All right, our next question comes from Twitter users which are unofficial and they asked why does Google search console always tell me

that this JavaScript era when I use arrow functions? Why does it not support them? Well, that's an easy one. So thanks for asking me that question Martin. The short answer is we support them now, so if you try again it'll probably work for the last question Merlyn ox on Twitter, asks why does the URL inspection tool report a status code 200 for page at Absa Lee returns a 301 redirect? We're in search console does there appear any indication that the URL tested gives a 301. That's correct and the reason behind that is that the URL inspection tool is designed to show you what happens. When we index pages right and what happens when we get a 301 we make a new request to the URL that you directed us, so we are not ending up with a 301. We are ending up with whatever happens on the page that you redirected us to. In

that case, a 200 and that's by a design basically, because the URL inspection tool as I said is meant to show you what actually happens when Googlebot processes your website. So I can see how that might confuse someone who has double-check the result code, but that definitely makes sense, so all of these are about the URL inspection tool which is a cool part of the search console. I heard you even made some code changes and there is that correct. I made a tiny little change in the code, so what's involved there can I just go in there Minneapolis SEO Expert and add a bunch of images of cheese, or is someone actually watching out for there are people watching out.

So, I work with the Minneapolis SEO Services team and we agreed on building a certain feature and then they guided me through the process of making that feature actually happen. I wrote the code and they made sure that it's tested properly and we are now running what's called an experiment. So basically, new features are undergoing a testing test first and only. If I pass that testing phase, my code will actually run for your inspections in Google search console so you can't just add new stuff to it or break existing things. On the one hand, I'm kind of sad I just can't add pictures of cheese but on the other hand, it's good to know that we're sending tools that actually work to our users and yes, I hope you found these answers useful. Thank you for submitting them all and if there are more questions on the topic of search console or anything else, feel free to submit them on Twitter using the hashtag Google webmasters. All right, thanks to everyone and Thank You Martin, and goodbye. 

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