The robots.txt file is commonplace in any standard technical SEO audit, and the robots.txt standard gives webmasters the ability to control which robots (user-agents) are able to crawl their websites, either in part or entirely. It’s a plain .txt file, which is most commonly found through the /robots.txt URI extension; e.g. salt.agency/robots.txt A robots.txt file […]
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We’re pleased to announce that SALT.agency will be hosting a New York Technical SEO Meetup on 8 November in Manhattan. The event will host a light panel discussion and open SEO forum, discussing current trends, the future of technical SEO, and the role of the SEO professional in the modern marketing ecosystem. Panellists to be […]
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2019 has seen the advent of a number of new challenges for SEO professionals, ranging from Google’s ever-changing efforts to “deliver better results for users”, to serverless technologies creating new opportunities for SEO implementations. JAMstack is also becoming more popular as organisations are looking to deconstruct their monolithic architectures, and become more agile in how […]
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Being able to quickly check the search results of a query can be done several ways. If you’re in a spot, however, and your Wifi/hotspot connection is very poor and you need to quickly check what ranks on page one for a specific query, being able to check ad hoc queries via Python can be […]
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Over the past few months, the general understanding of Python within the SEO community has become more widespread thanks to its ability to automate both monotonous and labour intensive SEO tasks.
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The concept of entities has gained recent prominence within SEO, as Google’s algorithms and information retrieval systems have indicated a greater significance and weighting to them.
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Around the time of the deindexing bug earlier this month, a large number of websites saw their homepages (among other prominent traffic driving pages) seemingly disappear from Google’s index without warning or explanation. Before long of course, webmasters started to notice another trend, that the cache dates of websites within Google’s public cache had seemingly […]
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As technology advances, it creates opportunities for new methodologies and innovations. At the moment, the rising functionality and increased accessibility of CDN technology is, in my opinion, leading to a new era in SEO, SEO on the edge — or, Edge SEO.
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This article represents a write-up of our technical research paper, which won the TechSEO Boost 2018 Call For Research competition, alongside entries from 2018 Drum USA Search Personality of the Year Eric Enge, and French software company OVH.
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Recent revelations have shown that the United States Government is looking into regulating Google search results in response to publicly tweeted claims from Donald Trump.
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After removing the PDF from public download, Google has now published a revised version of the 164 page guidelines designed to help their team of search quality raters evaluate online content.
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For a number of years Google has strongly advocated moving sites to HTTPS as a form of basic security, and with Chrome 70 rolling out later this year (which will mark HTTP sites as not secure), the search engine is forcing the hands of Webmasters even further. HTTPS doesn’t necessarily mean that you have a secure website however, […]
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