Google's War on Data and the Clickstream Revolution
SEOs rely on data more than ever, and it seems Google is obscuring, blocking, or removing it at every opportunity. But there is hope, and we call it clickstream data.
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.
Most Recent Articles on Technical SEO
The Technical SEO Renaissance: The Whys and Hows of SEO’s Forgotten Role in the Mechanics of the Web
Technical SEO is more complicated and more important than ever before, while much of the SEO discussion has shied away from its growing technical components in favor of content marketing. Mike King makes a compelling case for exactly why and how a returned focus on technical SEO will rejuvenate and revolutionize the search game.
How to Use Search Analytics in Google Sheets for Better SEO Insights
There’s no reason to go over what is or why you should use Google Search Console’s most powerful data-powered tool, Search Analytics. As an SEO, whether you’re working in-house or handling many clients in an agency, you’ve likely been using this tool for a bunch of reasons. Whether it's diagnosing traffic and position changes, or finding opportunities for optimiz...
How to Fix Crawl Errors in Google Search Console
Search Console is one of the most powerful tools we have for diagnosing website errors. Learn how to prioritize and resolve your site's crawl errors in Google Search Console — those hundreds of 404 errors may not be so daunting after all.
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Introducing Progressive Web Apps: What They Might Mean for Your Website and SEO
Progressive Web Apps are the next big thing when it comes to delivering a dynamite mobile experience. But what actually makes a PWA? Should you have one? And if you create one, how will you make sure it ranks?
Here’s How to Generate and Insert Rel Canonical with Google Tag Manager
In this article, we’re going to learn how to create the rel canonical URL tag using Google Tag Manager, and how to insert it in every page of our website so that the correct canonical is automatically generated in each URL.
The Most Effective Way to Improve Sitewide Quality and Rankings (Most of the Time)
How much dead weight is bringing your site down in rankings? Armed with compelling case study data, Everett Sizemore shares his single most effective and scaleable tactic for improving your site's overall level of quality, in most situations.
An Essential Training Task List for Junior SEOs
With 5 detailed projects that drag you through the technical trenches, this customizable training program for Junior SEOs should put you on the road to skill mastery (and a nice career edge) in just a couple of months.
Google's Rolling Out AMP to the Main SERPs – Are You Prepared?
Are you ready for AMP? Google announced that AMP is going beyond the news carousel to join the "10 blue links." Jen Slegg takes you through the changes, what to expect, and how to prepare.
301 Redirects for SEO: Google Removes the Penalty
Last week, Google blew our minds when they said 3xx redirects no longer lose PageRank. Cyrus is here to give you the low-down on what this means for SEO.
The Search Marketer's Guide to ItemRef & ItemID
Structured data has never been more important than it is today. This post will help you implement semantic markup and structured data with greater ease and enable you to create a more robust and complete web of linked data on your website (and beyond).
10 Illustrations of How Fresh Content May Influence Google Rankings (Updated)
How fresh is this article? Through patent filings over the years, Google has explored many ways that it might use “freshness” as a ranking signal. Back in 2011, we published a popular Moz Blog post about these “Freshness Factors” for SEO. Following our own advice, this is a brand new update of that article.
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.