Author: Dan Taylor

  • Q&A With Google’s John Mueller

    At the end of the first VirtuaCon virtual conference, SALT’s Dan Taylor hosted a question and answer session with Google’s John Mueller. Tackling questions around how Google perceives site structure in the age of context vectors and semantic information architecture, as well as whether or not Google will roll out algorithm updates during the global […]

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  • Solving Salesforce Commerce Cloud’s Speed Issues

    When talking about any website from a technical perspective, site speed is never far away from the agenda. In recent years, through various updates and communications, Google has reinforced and placed emphasis on the need to factor this into our core thinking. It’s a metric that a large number of SEOs and marketers gravitate to […]

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  • Preventing user softlocks caused by interstitials & pop-ups

    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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  • New York Technical SEO Meetup: discussion takeaways

    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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  • How to carry out a website migration: your step-by-step guide

    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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  • Preparing your eCommerce site for the January sales

    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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  • JAMstack, Edge Workers & Worker Sites: New Challenges & Opportunities in SEO

    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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  • How entities work in SEO and AI search

    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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