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.
Using Google Tag Manager to Dynamically Generate Schema Code
Implementing Schema used to require a lot of changes to your site's markup, but the JSON-LD format created a great alternative to adding microdata to a page with minimal code. This post details how to make it even easier to dynamically generate Schema.org/JSON-LD tags for your site using Google Tag Manager.
How to Use BigQuery for Large-Scale SEO (Or Whenever Excel Fails)
Sometimes you have so much data it causes Excel to fail. When that happens, turn to Google BigQuery to help. Dominic Woodman walks you through setting up and using BigQuery for making huge datasets manageable.
Optimizing for Accessibility: Alt Text, Videos, Images & More
Alt Text For Video Accessibility: Have you been following along as we explore SEO + Accessibility? In this post, we shares resources and advice on SEO and Accessibility overlaps when optimizing alt text for images, video, and non-text elements.
Here’s How to Keep 301 Redirects from Ruining Your SEO
While 301 redirects can yield significant value to your SEO efforts, it's important to remain vigilant about how they're used. Logan Ray details four common ways redirects can be negatively affecting your page load time and what you can do about them.
Is Quora Skirting the Edge of ‘Spammy’ When it Comes to SEO?
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Optimizing for Accessibility + SEO: Formatting & Link Overlaps
Do you know the overlaps between SEO and accessibility? If you’re optimizing for search engines, you’re also affecting how people using assistive technologies experience your site. Let's examine the effects and best practices for keyword usage, text formatting, and links.
Optimizing for Accessibility + SEO: Site & Page Structure Overlaps
How well can ALL visitors navigate your site? In this first post of three, we'll try out simple screen readers & look at structural overlaps in SEO + accessibility like titles, headings, semantic markup, page structure & sitemaps.
Recovering Your Organic Search Traffic from a Web Migration Gone Wrong
You'd never change a URL without ensuring your 301s, links, sitemaps, and canonicals are in order... but a new client might have in the past. Here's what you can do to untangle any migration messes you've inherited and regain lost organic traffic.
Just How Long Are Big-Company SEOs Waiting for Their Most Important Changes?
What would you say if I told you that the average SEO at a big company has been waiting over six months for their highest priority technical change and doesn’t anticipate seeing it deployed for at least another six months? (40+% have been waiting over a year.)![Does Organic CTR Impact SEO Rankings? [New Data]](https://moz.toolspire.one/images/blog/banners/advanced-seo-74da3a3_2021-03-31-002050.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1617150050&s=02148f7e7f69e324818f707905b98b76)
Does Organic CTR Impact SEO Rankings? [New Data]
Does organic CTR data impact page rankings? Sharing recent research findings, Larry Kim makes the case that RankBrain and higher organic click-through rates are deeply intertwined.