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.
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?
Why Site Speed Still Matters (Revisited)
Portent's latest site speed study refresh looked at 10 websites spanning a number of industries and 26,000 different landing pages, ranging in performance from extremely slow pages to extremely fast. The results show that every second you can shave off your page load speed has intense conversion rate benefits that defy differences in verticals or selling approaches.![Opting Out of Google Featured Snippets Led to 12% Traffic Loss [SEO Experiment]](https://outdoorsrank.com/images/blog/banners/5e9606eb26e4c5.73102989_2021-04-15-233658.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1618529818&s=b84a8c334b9687bd7ba200167d7b9f55)
Opting Out of Google Featured Snippets Led to 12% Traffic Loss [SEO Experiment]
Working with the team at SearchPilot, we devised an A/B split test experiment to remove Moz Blog posts from Google featured snippets, and measure the impact on traffic.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Are H1 Tags Necessary for Ranking? [SEO Experiment]
In earlier days of search marketing, SEOs often heard the same two best practices repeated so many times it became implanted in our brains: Wrap the title of your page in H1 tags and use only one H1 tag per page. Despite assertions from one of Google's most trusted authorities that sites "can do perfectly fine with no H1 tags or with five H1 tags", many SEOs didn't believe it. So of course, we decided to test it scientifically.![How to Get Your Web Developer on Board with SEO [Bonus PDF]](https://outdoorsrank.com/images/blog/banners/5e5443a639f5a2.84685138_2021-04-15-234456.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1618530296&s=ea28b38464aac5315a90c0159e31e1c2)
How to Get Your Web Developer on Board with SEO [Bonus PDF]
Your web devs are your other half — the key to getting your SEO work done well and quickly. In this Whiteboard Friday, learn 6 essential ways to get your web dev on board with SEO. Plus, download the new Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet free!
Intro to Python
Python is a programming language that can help you uncover incredible SEO insights and save you time by automating time-consuming tasks. But for those who haven't explored this side of search, it can be intimidating. Britney Muller and a true python expert offer an intro into a helpful tool that's worth your time to learn.
Better Site Speed: 4 Outside-the-Box Ideas
Site speed is incredibly important, but we often rely on the same old methods for improvement. Tom Anthony covers some unusual and surprising tricks to improving site speed that you may not have considered.
This Is What Happens When You Accidentally De-Index Your Site from Google
Imagine it: the worst has happened, and a code deploy wipes your site from Google's index. What do you do? Take notes on this real-life hard lesson when their search presence was cut by 1/3 due to exactly that.