Google Tool Scores Your SEO: Should Google Be Scoring Your SEO?

Nov 15, 2018 - 8:12 am 11 by

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The other day, Google launched a new portal named web.dev that pretty much has lighthouse, another Google tool, results for your audit. One of the lighthouse results is an SEO score. So I asked SEOs, should Google be scoring their SEO this way?

Here is the score:

Seo Score Web Dev

Here is the breakdown:

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I posted a Twitter poll asking and 337 votes within 24 hours. I asked Should Google show SEO scores and 59% said yes and 41% said no.

Here are some of the useful comments back on Twitter:

I thought the SEO community would debate it more but hey - what do I know?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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