Back in 2016, Google announced a change to its algorithm that focused around content accessibility for users, primarily focusing on interstitials, pop-ups, overlays, and modals on mobile devices that cause content to become obfuscated beyond a certain percentage, or are overly intrusive and require user interaction to then access content. It’s fair to say, that […]
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In November 2019 we hosted a technical SEO meetup in New York, featuring a formidable panel of SEO experts including: Rachel Costello, DeepCrawl Mike King, iPull Rank Lily Ray, Path Interactive Romain Damery, Path Interactive Hamlet Batista, Rank Sense John Morabito, Stella Rising Moderated by SALT’s Dan Taylor, the following is a round-up of the […]
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Website migrations are a natural part of a growing online business. Whether you’re replatforming, rebranding, or consolidating multiple sites, migrations can be required for a number of reasons. When it happens, a website migration impacts almost every facet of your site, including how your site is structured, accessed, or understood by users and search engines. […]
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When entering such a busy time, your website must perform to the best of its ability to cope with the additional user demand. As well as being optimised to provide the best user experiences, the site needs to be as competitive as possible against Google Shopping and major marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay. While […]
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The robots.txt file is a staple of technical SEO and should be included as standard in any comprehensive technical audit. It’s a way of communicating crawl instructions to search engine bots and other automated user-agents, controlling which areas of a website can and can’t be accessed. What is Robots.txt? Robots.txt is a plain text 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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The concept of entities has gained prominence within SEO and information retrieval over the past decade. In recent years, Google and other search platforms have evolved from keyword-based systems into semantic and AI-driven retrieval engines. In recent years, entities have become even more important for traditional search engines, as well as AI-powered retrieval systems, large […]
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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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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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When people talk about international SEO, they often focus on expanding into new markets, countries, and languages to increase their market share. However, there can also be great gains in optimising for another language within your own country. But even then, it’s not always a straightforward process, as there are regional differences and dialects to take […]
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