Technical SEO

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.

For many businesses, technical SEO is still quite a new concept, and one that might not be properly understood. No matter what kind of business you run, however, the likelihood is that you want new customers to be able to find you on the internet; which is what technical SEO can give you. In this […]

Two years ago I wrote an article called ‘How to deal with huge amounts of redirects in an SEO migration’, and with this we created a bulk redirect generator tool. The original article was mainly based around the logic of a migration and it was more of manual ‘hands on’ approach, discussing things such as […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

TL; DR [Full read: ~8 minutes] There is no one size fits all when it comes to SEO competitor analysis, and there is no magic ‘checklist’ or ‘export-a-bunch-of-data-and-put-it-in-this-template’ setting. There are however many different areas to think about that each warrant their own full investigation. Here are a few examples:

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.

Generally speaking, search agencies are hired to help businesses become as visible as possible to search engines. Despite this, there are a few very good reasons why a business might want to restrict certain pages from being discovered.

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 […]