The Rankable Podcast
Working with Your Devs On JavaScript SEO Bugs - Episode 105
Featuring Jamie Indigo
In episode 105, Jamie Indigo joins the show to share some thoughts on how you should communicate and engage with your dev team to improve your JavaScript SEO.
Jamie gives some insight into where most SEOs go wrong with JavaScript and the approach you should be taking to identify and analyze JavaScript SEO issues.
We also chat about the impact that LLMs and generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard could have on JavaScript SEO in the not-so-distant future.
Episode Time Stamps
- [0:00] Intro
- [1:25] How ‘Not a Robot’ Came to Be
- [2:45] Jamie’s Big Picture Philosophy on JavaScript SEO
- [3:50] How to Keep Your Developers from Bloating Your Site
- [7:21] How to Win the Hearts & Minds of Marketers and Devs
- [11:29] Where Do SEOs Go Wrong With JavaScript
- [13:06] How to Investigate & Diagnose JavaScript SEO Issues
- [14:58] The Most Fun JavaScript Problems to Solve
- [17:13] Can You Trust Google Documentation?
- [19:45] How Will Generative AI Impact JavaScript SEO?
- [26:31] Rapid Fire Rankings
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This Week's guests
Jamie Indigo
Company: Not a Robot
Title: 100% Human Technical SEO
Bio: Jamie Indigo isn’t a robot, but speaks bot. As a technical SEO consultant, they study how search engines crawl, render, and index the web. When not working, Jamie likes horror movies, graphic novels, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Website: https://not-a-robot.com/
Reference: JavaScript product page problems with Martin Splitt – SEO Fairy Tales – Google
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One variable tool depending on what you want to achieve.
Rank your best SEO trick or tactic: Just talking to people.
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Title: Demand Generation Manager
Garrett loves SEO like the 90s loves slap bracelets.
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Get insights, stories, and strategies from a range of practitioners and executives leading the charge in SEO.
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