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JavaScript SEO: how Google crawls, renders and indexes JavaScript
JavaScript SEO explained: how Googlebot crawls, renders and indexes JS, which rendering strategy to choose and how to test what Google sees.
8 min read

Technical SEO
Bing Search Console: how to set up Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing Search Console is Bing Webmaster Tools. Set it up step by step: import from Google, verify, submit sitemaps, use IndexNow and read the reports.
10 min read

Technical SEO
Core Web Vitals test: how to measure and fix LCP, INP and CLS
Run a Core Web Vitals test with PageSpeed Insights, Search Console, Lighthouse, CrUX and Serpel, then fix LCP, INP and CLS with a table of causes.
8 min read

Technical SEO
SEO audit report example: Serpel’s own crawl of serpel.app
An SEO audit report example from Serpel’s own crawl of serpel.app: score, issues by severity, Core Web Vitals, fixes and a format you can copy.
15 min read

Technical SEO
Soft 404 errors: what they are and how to fix them
What is a soft 404? How Google defines it, what causes soft 404 errors, how Search Console reports them and how to fix each case, plus how to detect them.
8 min read