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.
The Definitive Guide to JavaScript SEO (2021 Edition)
The web is in a golden age of front-end development. JavaScript and technical search engine optimization are experiencing a renaissance. In this article, Pierce Brelinsky of Go Fish Digital shows you how to optimize your JS-powered website for search in 2021.
Announcing the New Technical SEO Certification Series: What It Is & How to Get Certified
The Moz Learning Team has put in many, many hours of work to develop a technically focused, in-depth training series that hones in on the nuts and bolts of technical SEO. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Technical SEO Certification Series through Moz Academy.![How We Increased Our Client’s Leads by 751% on Less Than £1K Per Month [Case Study]](https://moz.toolspire.one/images/blog/banners/advanced-seo-74da3a3_2021-04-15-231024.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1618528224&s=eb4fdb93ba089b1274f37144207af43d)
How We Increased Our Client’s Leads by 751% on Less Than £1K Per Month [Case Study]
The team at Tao Digital Marketing breaks down how they were able to go above and beyond for their client, Fleetcover, using four strategies that increased leads by 751%, keywords by 259%, and impressions by 535% — all with a small SEO budget.
4 SEO Strategies for Programmatic Sites
Planning and executing SEO strategies for sites with hundreds of millions of pages is no easy task, but there are strategies to make it simpler. Roy explores the four major SEO challenges you'll encounter when dealing with programmatic pages, and unpacks how to overcome them.
HTTPS Is Table Stakes for SEO in 2020
Page-one HTTPS URLs in Google search are at 98% (according to MozCast). This post looks at a much larger data set (7.5M keywords) and finds much the same. If you haven't switched to HTTPS/SSL, you can't play the Google game.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Accessible Machine Learning for SEOs — Whiteboard Friday
Machine learning might seem far outside the scope of your SEO work. MozCon speaker Britney Muller is back with a special edition of Whiteboard Friday to tell you why that's not true, and to go through a few steps to get you started.
How to Make a Scalable SMS Chatbot Using Twilio, Python, and Google Sheets (with Free Code)
Many of us are helping businesses that are facing hard times, or we’re facing hard times ourselves. The use of SMS chatbots could be a way for you to look outside your normal list of solutions. In this post, Robin gives you instructions and code to produce not just one, but a series of text-based chatbots that can be managed by Google Sheets.
Core Web Vitals: The Next Official Google Ranking Factor - Whiteboard Friday
There's a new ranking factor in town: Core Web Vitals. Expected in 2021, this Google-announced algorithm change has a few details you should be aware of. Cyrus Shepard dives in this week on Whiteboard Friday.
Page Speed Optimization: Metrics, Tools, and How to Improve — Best of Whiteboard Friday
Page speed has always been a crucial part of SEO work, and as more companies make the shift to online operations, optimization becomes more important than ever. However, it's a complex subject that tends to be very technical. What are the most crucial things to understand about your site's page speed, and how can you begin to improve? To help you answer these questions, we're sharing this popular episode of Whiteboard Friday where Britney Muller goes over what you need to know to get started.
Use the Blank Sheet of Paper Test to Optimize for Natural Language Processing
The Blank Sheet of Paper Test determines if what you’ve written has meaning to someone who has never encountered your brand or content before. But what if we’re performing the BSoPT on a machine instead of a person? Does our thought experiment still apply?