Slides from AccuraCast MD, Farhad Divecha's presentation at Brighton SEO.
In his talk, Farhad discussed how the removal of third-party cookies will affect SEO and advised delegates on practical, actionable things they can do to best equip their business to overcome the potential challenges involved.
AccuraCast are one of a very small group of official Facebook Marketing Partners for Technical Services in the world.
Our experts are specifically qualified for Facebook Conversions API and Catalogue technical optimisation.
We're also on the Facebook Attribution Advisory Board & are Google Attribution experts.
This means we’re officially certified and have been accredited for competency configuring and troubleshooting API integrations.
Tool Affected? How?
KeywordHero - No - Relies on GSC. No cookie-based tracking
Screaming Frog - No - Crawl a website and analyse it for SEO issues and opportunities
SpyFu - No - Get SERP data directly. No cookie-based tracking
Moz Pro – No - Partners don’t use data reliant on cookies.
Majestic - Mostly No - Some highly anonymised KW search volume data. but these are extreme cases and unlikely to have a significant impact.
SimilarWeb - Mostly No - For some data they get from providers who get data from 3rd parties, that will change. ahrefs - No - Ahrefs data will not be affected in any way
BuzzSumo - No - Don't use cookies to gather any engagement data
Crawling and indexing doesn’t involve user interaction
No cookies involved
The gtag.js JavaScript library uses first-party cookies to distinguish unique users as well as unique sessions from a single user.
Does not require you to set cookies to transmit data to Google Analytics.
Based purely on search crawl and indexing data.
No third-party user data is involved
We set up CAPI and Server-side tracking for the biggest brands
If you haven’t done so, you’re already 6 months too late and need to talk to my colleague at the end of this session.