Technical SEO

HTTP response codes are short three-digit messages sent from a web server to your browser each time you request the loading of a new page. The response code indicates to both search engines and users what the current condition of the web-page is and what content can be expected from the page. Response codes are […]

Website migrations are a naturally occurring and common event on the internet as companies upgrade (or change) their platforms, rebrand, or merge with others. This is why it’s important to have a defined, phased approach to website migrations, and using past experience (and learnings) to continuously improve and refine processes. Collectively at SALT.agency, we’ve handled […]

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 […]

Migrating to a new ecommerce platform such as Salesforce is complicated and risky, so it is vital to get as much right as possible the first time through careful planning and execution. This is why we find it interesting to work with on new projects. The following is a HTTPS migration gone wrong, which illustrates […]

There can be many reasons why a website might suddenly lose traffic. From changes in search engine algorithms, through to simple tracking errors, the reasons for a traffic drop can be either simple or agonisingly complex. At SALT.agency, we provide comprehensive traffic drop audits for companies that are experiencing depreciated levels of traffic. Before you […]

Across the internet you are likely to find a smattering of articles and discussions about why Cloudflare and other such Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) aren’t beneficial for SEO. The likelihood however, is that those articles are written by people whose services aren’t set up properly, as mentioned by John Mueller — Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst. […]

There are 130 trillion pages held within Google’s index, which means that when someone performs a search, an enormous bank of information must be analysed in order to deliver the most relevant results to the user. When new content is created however, it won’t appear in the search results straight away, as Google needs to […]

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.

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.

This guide is to help those who want to make sure their website downtime does not impact on their organic search performance.

TL;DR Websites that are built using React.JS are perfectly SEO-friendly when built correctly. If you are going to build a website that renders the front-end using React.JS, then make sure you render the first version before serving it to the search engines. It is no news to anyone that old browsers which can’t render the […]

Google Lighthouse is fast becoming one of my favourite technical tools for auditing mobile websites. Many still use the tool to audit the web performance (site speed) of their mobile webpages but the tool can offer much more guidance on how to improve a webpage or app. In this article I will run through what […]