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Google’s Top 5 SEO Tools

March 14, 2018

Chrome Lighthouse

Lighthouse is a “lite” version of a site review tool. It currently provides feedback on ten SEO metrics. The Lighthouse SEO tool can also be downloaded and installed in Chrome as an extension Lighthouse is limited in scope but it provides a snapshot of ten metrics that matter to Google.

Ten Metrics Chrome Lighthouse Currently Reports On:

  1. Viewport Meta Tag
  2. Title Element
  3. Meta Description
  4. HTTP Status Code
  5. Descriptive Text on Links
  6. Page Status for Successful Crawling & Indexing
  7. Validates Hreflang
  8. Validates rel=canonical
  9. Validates font legibility for mobile devices
  10. Checks if document avoids browser plugins for viewing

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