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Hi there 👋,
Last week Google updated their Googlebot help document to state that they will only crawl the first 15mb of html.
As usual, there has been a bit of a frenzy in the SEO community. But...15mb is HUGE. It's about 3 million words. Images, videos, css & javascript are fetched separately too. So...nothing to worry about!
My Post of the Week is a simple way to measure topical authority from Kevin Indig. I'm sure we've all been guilty of saying a website has topical authority for X without actually quantifying it. Kevin presents a simple way for measuring topical authority using Ahrefs (but you could use other tools), based on the following logic:
"The logic is that the more traffic a site gets from the keywords in a topic, the more authoritative it is for that topic."
Great read 🔥
Until next week!
Andrew Charlton