Merj is your partner for SEO and AI search. We create engineering advantage for enterprises worldwide.

London, United Kingdom
Joined August 2013
We analyzed billions of AI crawler requests to figure out how each crawler handles JavaScript rendering, assets, and other behavior. Here's what we found.
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🚀 Exciting news for #SEO folks! We have released a new Python client for the Bing Webmaster Tools API, enabling easier data access from @bing's ecosystem. merj.com/blog/introducing-ou… The BWT API also has additional functionality including Bingbot crawl stats and regional settings. I look forward to seeing what you all do with it. #seo #bingwebmastertools #martech
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I love this type of empirically sound SEO research by @giacomozecchini that yields actionable insights. It's a rare sight in a world often dominated by anecdotes with a good chunk of alchemy. It's a good primer on how Google's crawling pipeline appears to work, and how one can optimize crawl speed beyond the traditional techniques. I keep saying "Have empathy with Googlebot" and this is exactly that. Understand what is expensive for it and try to avoid it having to do that work. Also great to see that @nextjs is taking advantage of the recommended technique out of the box. merj.com/blog/managing-webpa…
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Session isolation may be a factor as well. JetOctopus stores more than one session in IndexedDB local storage. ref @giacomozecchini's case study merj.com/blog/validating-ses…
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1/ <link rel="preconnect dns-prefetch" href="//api.example.com"> vs. <link rel="preconnect" href="//api.example.com"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//api.example.com"> Does the `preconnect` in the first example fallback to `dns-prefetch`
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I'm looking to give an advanced technical webinar to leverage CrUX data and page speed optimisations to prepare for algo changes in May 2021, from a data engineering and auditing point of view. If you are interested, drop a couple of details here: bit.ly/advanced-page-speed-w…
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SEO Tip: Request a full list of subdomains from your #TrafficOps team. Run a SSL certificate check against each one to discover issues. Micro case study: 123 out of 703 subdomains for one enterprise company had common SSL certificate errors.
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Today I learned that if you have 100 tabs open in Chrome for mobile, the tab count turns into a little grinning face. #IveGot99TabsAndAintOneAProblem
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.@sam_marsden breaks down the key differences between some of the major search engines: Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu in our technical #SEO library. bit.ly/2RD7lrb
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If you have a mixture of www. and non www. URLs on a site, @JohnMu says the best way to inform Google of your preferred URL structure is to add 301 redirects with a consistent preferred domain choice. bit.ly/3aNIXel
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We've got a great new guide from @NorledgeCharlie on how to use structured data, covering: 🔹 Structured data implementation 🔹 Key structured data pieces 🔹 Choosing the right piece of structured data 🔹 Measuring structured data success Have a read ⤵️ bit.ly/2tNfz7m
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📣 We’re launching a new version of the Removals report in Search Console to help webmasters temporarily hide pages from Google Search results. Read more at webmasters.googleblog.com/20…
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Interested in how Google ranks podcasts? Bill covers a patent published on 1/9 -> How the New Podcast Patent Application Ranks Shows and Episodes glennga.be/2uBMvj0 via @bill_slawski
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What the heck is happening in SERPs? 🤷‍♂️In light of Google's featured snippets update, we break down what the change means for SEO and local businesses 🧐 brightlocal.com/blog/google-…
We made some significant updates to our developers documentation on mobile-first indexing (☎️#⃣1⃣📙?), Whether your site has been moved over already or not, it's worth checking it out 👇 developers.google.com/search…
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Google image search optimization tips from @JohnMu say the most important part is to consider is how you'd want to be found in image search? What you expect users to search for? And how can your site be useful to them when they find you? seroundtable.com/google-vide…
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If a site has different structured markup on their desktop and mobile sites, Google would use the schema that is on the version they are currently crawling and indexing.
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