SHARE
Facebook X Pinterest WhatsApp

Google Tests Itself on Own SEO Scorecard

Mar 6, 2010

SEO is on every developer’s mind, and Google’s web developers are no different. A recent post on Google’s Webmaster Central Blog indicates that they are also working on SEO, and have recently tested themselves using their own scorecard.


Google’s SEO report card is part of what they describe as “an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their product’s pages using simple and accepted optimizations. These [are] intended to not only help search engines understand the content of our pages better, but also to improve our user’s experience when visiting our sites.”


Like many things Google, they have posted the results of their scorecard online so others can learn from how they themselves could improve their SEO results. The report card focused on three critical SEO areas:


  • Search Result Presentation
  • URLs and redirects
  • on-page optimization

Google

s report card, like many of our own, showed many areas graded as

needs improvement

, a few

satisfactory

and only an occassional

excellent

.

Recommended for you...

Web 3.0 and the Future Of Web Development
Rob Gravelle
Jun 23, 2022
CodeGuru and VBForums Developer Forums and Community
James Payne
Apr 7, 2022
Understanding CSS Template Layout
Vipul Patel
Mar 29, 2022
Criminals Pay More for Code Signing Certificates Than for Guns or Passports
HTML Goodies Logo

The original home of HTML tutorials. HTMLGoodies is a website dedicated to publishing tutorials that cover every aspect of being a web developer. We cover programming and web development tutorials on languages and technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. In addition, our articles cover web frameworks like Angular and React.JS, as well as popular Content Management Systems (CMS) that include WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. Website development platforms like Shopify, Squarespace, and Wix are also featured. Topics related to solid web design and Internet Marketing also find a home on HTMLGoodies, as we discuss UX/UI Design, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and web dev best practices.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.