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The 6-Step Technical SEO Audit. On-page SEO, off-page SEO, and technical SEO can be thought of as three pillars of organic search engine optimization.

The 6-Step Technical SEO Audit

Technical SEO vs. on-page SEO vs. off-page SEO Out of the three, technical SEO is most often ignored, most likely because it’s the trickiest to master. However, with the competition in search results now, us marketers cannot afford to shy away from the challenges of technical SEO—having a site that is crawlable, fast, and secure has never been more essential to ensure your site performs well and ranks well in search engines. : An unexpected error has occurred. Technical SEO. What's technical SEO? 8 technical aspects everyone should know. Willemien Hallebeek Willemien is the Manager Content of yoast.com.

What's technical SEO? 8 technical aspects everyone should know

She loves creating user-friendly content and making it easy to find for people and search engines. What is Technical SEO? (Updated for 2021) Technical SEO. What's technical SEO? 8 technical aspects everyone should know. Willemien Hallebeek Willemien is the Manager Content of yoast.com.

What's technical SEO? 8 technical aspects everyone should know

She loves creating user-friendly content and making it easy to find for people and search engines. Keywords 101: Free Keyword Research and Tracking Tools. You may have heard keywords are an essential part of any SEO strategy: they are.

Keywords 101: Free Keyword Research and Tracking Tools

Without the right keywords on your site, people won’t find you while searching the web. But there’s a lot more to keyword strategy than figuring out what people are searching for. It means choosing the right keywords for your business, determining which ones you’ll be able to rank for, and a whole lot more. If you’re an SEO newbie, understanding keyword strategy can be overwhelming. But in this ultimate guide to keywords, I’ll give you all the info you need to get started. Do You Have a Content Farm? 44 Flares Google+ 1 LinkedIn 2 inShare2 Twitter 38 Facebook 2 Pin It Share 1 StumbleUpon 0 44 Flares × Link building is good.

Do You Have a Content Farm?

Content is good. Content farms are bad. Black-Hat SEO Tactics Outlined by Beanstalk. These Tactics Are Considered Black-Hat For A Reason.

Black-Hat SEO Tactics Outlined by Beanstalk

This Page Is To Note The Tactics That You Will Hear About From Other SEO's. These Are Not Legitimate Tactics And While Some May Work In The Short Term. They WILL Get Your Website Penalized And/Or Banned Eventually. Constantly webmasters attempt to "trick" the search engines into ranking sites and pages based on illegitimate means.

Whether this is through the use of doorway pages, hidden text, interlinking, keyword spamming or other means they are meant to only trick a search engine into placing a website high in the rankings. 30 (New) Google Ranking Factors You May Over- or Underestimate. SEO is a fast changing discipline.

30 (New) Google Ranking Factors You May Over- or Underestimate

What worked 5 or 10 years ago might be completely unnecessary these days or even bad for your site’s ranking. Thus leading search industry publications publish the most probable Google ranking factors each year. Nonetheless many webmasters prefer to stick to the past or follow wrong advice from bloggers who just repeat SEO myths.

In recent years, Google has not only included lots of new media types into Universal search results; it has also added numerous ranking factors while rethinking many old ones. I made a list of new or current ranking factors that get underestimated by webmasters and neglected because of this. SEO Marketing Objectives. SEO Marketing Objectives Posted by Daniel Shlifer on Tue, Sep 28, 2010 If you're still using older marketing methods to get your business in front of your target market offline or even online, you're losing valuable opportunities to stand out from your competition.

SEO Marketing Objectives

And what's worse, investing your business dollars in outdated marketing techniques will not only cost you potential customers, but also a huge chunk of your budget, misdirected to old school’ methods that are simply no longer as effective as they used to be. SEO marketing is one of many newer marketing methods that have been proven to be more efficient, more effective and more affordable. Case in point: Outbound vs. Outbound marketing has long been considered a solid form of business advertisement (40 year track record), with the primary focus of grabbing the consumer’s attention and coercing them to take action. These tactics don’t cut it with today’s consumer, and here’s why:

SEO for HTTPS - YOUmoz. This entry was written by one of our members and submitted to our YouMoz section.The author's views below are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz.

SEO for HTTPS - YOUmoz

Do you work on a big company site where everything is within the secure protocol? If so, these are what you have to keep in mind for your onsite optimization: If done right, an https site can rank as well as an http site. Keep all your certificates valid, all the time, 24/7/365. Https sites are more work for the servers, so there is the possibility of a slower download. Additionally: Keep all your files (images, iframes, etc) within the https protocol. Maybe there is a fall off in click- through due to the display of the part in front of the www (which does not happen for sites). Thx for your screentime, FranzSEO Yikes, looks like something went wrong. 2011 Search Ranking Factors Survey Results from SEOmoz  For six years, SEOmoz has produced a biennial survey that outlines the current priority ranking factors within the industry.

2011 Search Ranking Factors Survey Results from SEOmoz 

This year, the results are also paired up with correlation-based analysis (taken from top 30 sites in 10,980 queries in Google) and opinions from the panel. What that basically means is more insights into the question of “Why?” The findings, overall, are reflective of Google's stance on rank by engagement, social reach, and the true user value of the URL. The 2011 study is much more technical and requires an in depth overview versus the 2009, and all previous studies. The reason? Search Engine Ranking Factors.