Technical SEO
Traditionally, the phrase Technical SEO refers to optimizing your site for crawling and indexing, but can also include any technical process meant to improve search visibility.
Technical SEO is a broad and exciting field, covering everything from sitemaps, meta tags, JavaScript indexing, linking, keyword research, and more.
If you’re new to SEO, we recommend starting with the chapter on Technical SEO in our Beginner’s Guide. Below are the latest posts on technical SEO, and we’ve included a few top articles here.
On-Site SEO : What are the technical on-page factors that influence your rankings? Our free learning center will get you started in the right direction.
The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet : This handy—and printable—cheat sheet is invaluable for anyone building websites. Contains several useful references that cover a ton of technical SEO best practices.
MozBar : This free Chrome extension is an advanced SEO toolbar that helps you to examine and diagnose several technical SEO issues.
The Technical SEO Renaissance : Is it true that technical SEO isn't necessary, because Google is smart enough to figure your website out? Mike King puts this rumor to rest, and shows you what to focus on.
Technical SEO: The One Hour Guide to SEO : Want a quick introduction to the basics of technical SEO? Our guru Rand has you covered—all in about 10 minutes.
How Google's Rel = Nofollow, Sponsored, & UGC Links Impact SEO
Google shook up the SEO world by announcing big changes to how publishers should mark nofollow links. The changes — while beneficial to help Google understand the web — nonetheless caused confusion and raised a number of questions. We've got the answers to many of your questions here.
Goodbye, Generic SEO Audit – Say Hello to Customization & Prioritization
Though an SEO audit is essentially a checklist, it's important to both customize your approach and prioritize your fixes to be efficient and effective with your time and effort. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Kameron Jenkins shares a better way of improving your site.
FAQ, HowTo, and Q&A: Using New Schema Types to Create Interactive Rich Results
Avoid misusing Schema, or it’s possible Google might take away these fantastic opportunities to enhance our organic listings in the future.
Programming for SEOs
In today's Whiteboard Friday, master technical SEO Paul Shapiro shares why it's so important for SEOs and marketers to take the programming plunge, explains key concepts, and helps you determine the best course of action for you to get started when it comes to leveling up your technical prowess.
Spying On Google: 5 Ways to Use Log File Analysis To Reveal Invaluable SEO Insights
Most SEO Professionals have never used Log File Analysis, but without it, they are missing out on unique and invaluable insights that regular crawling tools just can’t produce.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Aren't 301s, 302s, and Canonicals All Basically the Same? - Best of Whiteboard Friday
The answer is unequivocally no. In this fan-favorite Whiteboard Friday, Dr. Pete explains how bots and humans experience pages differently depending on which solution you use, why it matters, and how each choice is treated by Google.
How to Make a Technical SEO Recommendation
After you've put in the work with technical SEO and made your discoveries, there's one thing left to do: present your findings to the client and agree on next steps. Benjamin Estes presents his framework for making technical recommendations to clients and stakeholders to best position you for success.
How to Deliver JSON-LD Recommendations the Easy Way
When you work with large clients whose sites comprise thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of pages, it's a daunting task to add the necessary markup. In today's Whiteboard Friday, we welcome Sergey Stefoglo to share his framework for delivering JSON-LD recommendations in a structured and straightforward way.How to Monitor Hreflang Performance With Dynamic Tags in STAT
Telling a valuable story about complex code, one that will resonate with clients, is no easy feat. But dynamic tags in STAT help transform all that data into easily digestible narratives.
How to Strategically Think About Technical SEO
Have you considered that the way you think about technical SEO could be hindering or helping your success? Ben Estes shares his agency's tried-and-true framework for tackling technical SEO quandaries strategically.![The 61 Best Free SEO Tools [100% Free]](https://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/images/blog/banners/5cfff5b4dff889.19505976_2021-03-30-220723.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1617142043&s=7f08f84c0c55ee10cd2ca330d97d7a6c)