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Technical SEO

Technical search engine optimization refers to the structure and organization of a site for maximum search engine visibility. Our coverage addresses structured data (Schema.org), website hierarchy, menus, categories, page speed, bot crawlers (including Googlebot), domain names, and more.

Technical SEO
SEO: Google Rolls Out Mobile Popup Penalty

January 13, 2017 • Jill Kocher Brown

Right on schedule, this week Google began rolling out its intrusive mobile popup penalty, aimed at reducing the number of results that take mobile searchers to pages that use large ...
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3 Backend Fixes to Increase Page Speed

December 30, 2016 • Eric Davis

Page speed is an important factor in search rankings and conversion rates. Every improvement to page speed will likely result in more sales. We’ve addressed page speed at, most recently, “10
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4 Things to Check for Holiday Ecommerce Traffic

November 16, 2016 • Bill Hartzer

The holiday shopping season is here. Millions of consumers are looking for holiday deals. Preparing your marketing campaigns, such as social media ads and email promotions, is imperative. Beyond that,
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SEO: To Drive Shoppers, Let the Bots In

November 6, 2016 • Jill Kocher Brown

We rely on search engines to drive shoppers to our sites to purchase our products. Before the shoppers can come, however, you have to let the bots in. It sounds more ...
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SEO: Accelerated Mobile Pages for Ecommerce

October 14, 2016 • Jill Kocher Brown

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages protocol makes mobile sites faster. Faster sites typically see lower bounce rates, higher time-on-site numbers, and higher conversion rates. AMP also benefits natural search performance. Smartphone users want speed.
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SEO: Reclaiming Links to Deleted Pages

October 2, 2016 • Jill Kocher Brown

When pages on your site go away, their link authority is wasted. But you can harvest that precious link authority and redirect it to other pages on your site, those ...
Technical SEO
Google Penguin Now Part of Core Search Algorithm

September 24, 2016 • Bill Hartzer

Google just announced that its Penguin algorithm is now a part of its core algorithm, updated in real time. Google last updated Penguin a few years ago. Updating Penguin continuously will likely affect many businesses. Recall that Google Penguin monitors ...
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SEO: Simplifying Navigation Cuts Performance

September 9, 2016 • Jill Kocher Brown

The trend toward simplicity in web design is affecting navigation. The impact on search engine optimization of navigation changes can be staggering. Navigation isn’t just a way for shoppers to navigate.
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The Real Benefit of Accelerated Mobile Pages

July 10, 2016 • Armando Roggio

The Accelerated Mobile Pages project’s restrictive subset of HTML tags, CSS, and JavaScript encourages web developers and designers to employ practices that may improve the mobile web experience. Contributor Jill Kocher ...
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3 Server Errors That Drain SEO

July 8, 2016 • Jill Kocher Brown

Servers are the foundation of the web, but their archaic status codes have a big impact on search engine optimization that few marketers understand well enough. Three types of server ...
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SEO: How Search Engines Work

March 27, 2016 • Jill Kocher Brown

Search engines trawl the web, sifting through billions of data points to serve up information in a fraction of a second. The access to instant information we’ve come to take ...
Technical SEO
SEO: AMP for Ecommerce

February 26, 2016 • Jill Kocher Brown

News on the mobile web is now four times faster, thanks to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages. AMP, as the project is known, is targeted at Google mobile searchers looking for long-form ...
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SEO: 9 Reasons to Crawl Your Ecommerce Site

January 22, 2016 • Jill Kocher Brown

Every search marketing professional should have a crawler in her arsenal of tools. Organic search’s first and most important rule is that search engines must be able to crawl to a ...
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SEO: Do You Need More Than One Domain Name?

December 17, 2015 • Bill Hartzer

I recently spoke with a business owner who had purchased every possible version of his company’s domain name (including the "typos”) to protect his brand.
Technical SEO
SEO: Metadata Can Optimize Search Results

September 6, 2015 • Jill Kocher Brown

Marketers tend to find metadata annoying, like tiny gnats that you’d rather just swat away. Maybe you don’t know where they come from; maybe you don’t know what purpose they serve. But metadata and structured data
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SEO: Using Metadata to Drive Traffic

August 23, 2015 • Jill Kocher Brown

Metadata can do amazing things for search engine optimization — from removing duplicate content to promoting your site within the search engines. This is my second post on using metadata to improve your site's search engine ranking.
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Panda 4.2 Complicates SEO for Ecommerce Sites

August 7, 2015 • Jill Kocher Brown

Google released Panda 4.2, the latest Panda algorithm update, in mid-July. If you didn’t feel an impact on your site’s performance on July 18, you’re not alone. Panda 4.2 is Google’s latest algorithm update
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SEO: Header Navigation Critical to Success

July 10, 2015 • Jill Kocher Brown

Search engine optimization relies heavily on site-wide navigational elements to broadcast authority signals to the search engines. Pages linked to in the header, footer, and
Technical SEO
10 Ways to Increase Ecommerce Site Speed

May 5, 2015 • Gagan Mehra

The download speed of ecommerce sites has greatly improved over the years because of the wider availability of faster Internet service. But many retailers still struggle with making their sites ...
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SEO: Using Rich Snippets to Increase Clicks

February 27, 2015 • Jill Kocher Brown

If you don’t win the click, you can’t make the sale. But if you don’t get noticed, you can’t win the click. Ecommerce sites need to take advantage of every option ...
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4 SEO Friends: Strategy, UX, Creative, Development

February 20, 2015 • Jill Kocher Brown

Effective search engine optimization requires cross-discipline collaboration. Make friends or forge strong working relationships with these key stakeholders to ensure that SEO needs are met at every stage of site ...
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SEO: Google Improves Crawling for Geotargeted Sites

January 30, 2015 • Jill Kocher Brown

Ecommerce sites that use geotargeting to serve different content to customers in different countries have faced challenges with organic search. On Wednesday, Google announced its efforts to overcome these challenges,
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SEO Technical Requirements Checklist, for Ecommerce

December 5, 2014 • Jill Kocher Brown

In “SEO 201, Part 5: Evaluating Ecommerce Platforms,” I listed basic SEO needs to assist in the selection of an ecommerce platform. This article will go further, listing technical requirements ...
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SEO 201, Part 6: Redesigns Impact Search Traffic

October 17, 2014 • Jill Kocher Brown

This is the sixth installment of my “SEO 201″ series, following: “Part 1: Technical Rules”; “Part 2: Crawling and Indexing Barriers”; “Part 3: Enabling Search-engine Spiders”; “Part 4: Architecture Is Key”; “Part 5: Evaluating Ecommerce ...
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SEO 201, Part 4: Architecture Is Key

October 3, 2014 • Jill Kocher Brown

This is the fourth installment of my “SEO 201” series, following: “Part 1: Technical Rules”; “Part 2: Crawling and Indexing Barriers”; “Part 3: Enabling Search-engine Spiders.” No matter which aspect of search engine optimization ...
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SEO 201, Part 3: Enabling Search-engine Crawlers

September 19, 2014 • Jill Kocher Brown

This is the third installment of my “SEO 201″ series, following: “Part 1: Technical Rules”; “Part 2: Crawling and Indexing Barriers.“ “SEO 201″ addresses technical, backend aspects of site architecture and organization. My ...
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SEO 201, Part 2: Crawling and Indexing Barriers

September 12, 2014 • Jill Kocher Brown

In “SEO 201, Part 1: Technical Rules,” my article last week, I posited three technical rules that are critical to tapping into Google’s ultimate power as an influencer of your ...
Technical SEO
SEO 201, Part 1: Technical Rules

September 5, 2014 • Jill Kocher Brown

In my 8-part “SEO 101” series, I addressed the basics of utilizing content on a website for search engines, including keyword research and optimization. With this article, I’ll start a ...
Technical SEO
SEO: Google Adds HTTPS Signals to Ranking Algorithm

August 8, 2014 • Jill Kocher Brown

Google has taken its obsession with security to a new level by including a preference for sites running SSL in its ranking algorithm. Starting slowly with less than one percent ...
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Use Google Analytics Site Speed to Identify Performance Problems

June 23, 2014 • Armando Roggio

Google Analytics offers several powerful reports that can help businesses monitor how quickly web pages are loading and identify what factors may be causing poor performance. How quickly a website loads ...

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