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.
Here at SEOmoz, we're usually talking about how to make your content more visible to the search engines. Today, we're taking a different direction. It may seem unusual, but there are plenty of times when content on your website needs to be protected from search indexing and caching. Why? Many reasons: Privacy Duplicate Content Issues Keyword Cann...
At the suggestion of BookWorm Seo, I decided to write a post about SEO for Joomla sites. [Note: I'm not here to suggest that Joomla is better than WordPress, Drupal, or any other CMS. My goal is simply to discuss some things that can be done with a Joomla site to make it better.] Also, I'm still far from an expert in the SEO field, so tak...
This is my first blog entry so be gentle with me. It’s rather long in the hope it passes for confidence and depth in my subject; whereas I really just got too excited and couldn’t stop typing! The topic that has been on my mind recently is the fascinating potential of search engines to step up to the next level of intelligence. Now I'm not talking about personalisati...
I originally asked Vanessa Fox to write a post about this topic, but she got real busy with her recent life changes. Then I asked someone else to do it (sorry, can't remember who) and they never did it either so . . . I'll do it!Search Engine Optimizers love to talk about duplicate content, 301 redirects, .htaccess files, and a million other closely related items, however, ...
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Howdy, I am about to advertise locally (Hawaii) for a couple of projects but I wanted to tell you guys and gals about it first. I will be spending two or three thousand a month on a few JavaScript projects. If you are a Javascript Guru, me like you.It would cool to work with someone from the SEO world, and I think all of you are aware of my work ethics.Drink.Drink again....
PageRank is not about voting for websites or vouching for them. An incorrect metaphor is being propagated to the point where Google's own employees are confused as to what PageRank is supposed to be about, as per Larry Page and Sergey Brin's Anatomy of a Search Engine paper.Google's founders conceived of PageRank...
Hidden Text is one of the challenges faced by webmasters and search engines. Spammers continue to use hidden text to stuff keywords into their pages for purposes of artificially boosting their rankings. Search engines seek to figure out when spammers are doing this, and then then take appropriate action.For the average every day webmaster, one challenge is that there are many ways to c...
My post yesterday caused a bit of confusion about internal linking practices and I figured it would be wise to clear it up with a handy visual representation. In the example above, we have a website that wants to build search-targeted pages for 4 unique keyword t...
This is a short one….I was quite impressed by the article on browser compability: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/browser-compatibility-what-really-matters. Funnily enough, I was thinking about it when I came across the new social media site to be – Baagz.com in Mashable earlier tod...
Since I have been working at "place company name here", specialising in search marketing I have been constantly in battle against the web developers. (still a newbie, I am mostly a web designer needing to learn about SEO, so i got a job in online marketing)For two years the website has been in development and since I joined the company 5 months ago, we are still unable to do th...
The W3C just published its latest draft of the HTML 5 standards (www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/). I’m probably not the only one following Markup Language Standards when it comes to SEO, so here are some interesting elements: HTML 5 has definitely an XML-style of presenting Information. This structure could make Searc...
Back in December I decided to move my blog from a personal domain (jmstreet.info) to something which more accurately reflected the content. I decided to go with torrentialwebdev.com and at the time the move seemed to go well. I missed a few links in my initial sweep but the .htaccess file I put in place to redirect traffic seemed to work and my rankings were quickly transferred.&nbs...
Ok I've been thinking about this so much the past few weeks I couldn't resist sharing it with my favorite community here at SEOmoz. Facebook, up until now its been one of those interesting social networking sites that seems as though it should have really great marketing potential, but no one could really figure out how to market anything, let alone monotize. S...
This post has been a long time coming - there's a definite need to address internal duplicate content issues in an intelligent, simple, illustrated manner. I'm hoping that you'll be able to show this to the boss (or, more likely, the engineering team) and help them achieve that critical "AHA!" moment required for all true progressive changes. Fundamentally at issue is the crea...