Technical SEO - Page 10

By: Cyrus Shepard May 28th, 2013

Disavowed: Secrets of Google's Most Mysterious Tool

To many webmasters, Google’s Disavow Tool seems a lifesaver. If you’ve suffered a Google penalty or been plagued by shady link building, simply upload a file of backlinks you want to disavow, and BOOM - you’re back in good graces. Or, more than likely, nothing at all. To better understand, I used the tool myself to disavow 1000s of links, and talked with dozens of SEOs who used it in attempts to recover from Google penalties.

By: Wil Reynolds May 15th, 2013

Yin and Yang of Disavow

Technical SEO

Is Disavowing spam links and reverse engineering spam networks really where Google wants us to spend our time? By the looks of the Disavow process, that answer is a resounding yes.

By: Dr. Peter J. Meyers April 18th, 2013

Rel=Confused? Answers to Your Rel=Canonical Questions

Technical SEO

In light of Google's recent post on common rel=canonical mistakes, I explore the most commonly asked questions we get in Q&A regarding canonicalization.

By: Tim Resnik March 26th, 2013

SEO Finds In Your Server Log

Technical SEO

As SEOs, we use all sorts of tools to glean insight into technical issues that may be hurting us: web analytics, crawl diagnostics, and Google and Bing Webmaster tools. All of these tools are useful, but there are undoubtedly holes in the data. There is only one true record of how search engines, such as Googlebot, process your website: your web server logs.

By: Will Critchlow January 7th, 2013

Learn About Robots.txt with Interactive Examples

Technical SEO

There are many areas of online marketing that computers are designed to interpret. In today's post, Will Critchlow shares a training module on robots.txt to help you understand the value of robots.txt files in large sites, and gives tips on using the protocol on your own site!

By: Tom Anthony December 11th, 2012

10 .htaccess File Snippets You Should Have Handy

Technical SEO

In the Moz Q&A, there are often questions that are directly asked about, or answered with, a reference to the all-powerful .htaccess file. I've put together a few useful .htaccess snippets which are often helpful, but are generally underused by SEOs.

By: Dr. Peter J. Meyers October 25th, 2012

What Does "X% of Queries" Mean?

Technical SEO

Recently, we've heard Google use the term "X% of queries affected" when announcing algorithm updates. This post explores what that deceptively simple phrase actually means.

By: Kevin Graves September 11th, 2012

How To: Advanced rel="canonical" HTTP Headers

Technical SEO

Use of rel=canonical in an HTTP header is underutilized, and I believe that, now more than ever, SEOs should start leveraging and considering the power of this method for non-text/html content-types.

By: Paddy Moogan September 10th, 2012

Common Technical SEO Problems and How to Solve Them

Technical SEO

Running into the same site problems over and over again can be exasperating. In the years I've been doing SEO, I'm still surprised to see so many websites suffering from the same list of issues. In today's post, I share the most common problems (and solutions!) I've encountered through site audits, along with a few uncommon issues at the end.

By: ArminJ August 2nd, 2012

15 Tips to Speed Up Your Website

On-page SEO | Technical SEO | Advanced SEO

After seeing some tweets and analyzing the SEOmoz website, I decided to write some tips and tricks that can decrease pages load time as much as possible. Any search engine wants to provide users a great user experience, just like Google, and a fast site improves overall site quality and increases user satisfaction. Everybody deserves a fast web experience. Some of the following tips are implemented well by SEOmoz, but I will explain them anyway because of their general usefulness.

By: Andrea Pernici July 10th, 2012

An In-depth Analysis of Authorship, Google+ and Snippets

Technical SEO

I am currently receiving more inquiries than ever about what factors into the comparisons and associations apparent in authorship, enabling a given listing to stand out from the crowd in the SERPs. People want to pinpoint a cause and effect scenario. People want answers. Here are a number of tests related to what influences authorship.

By: David Sottimano July 2nd, 2012

Googlebot Crawl Issue Identification Through Server Logs

Technical SEO

Sifting through server logs has made me infinitely better at my job as an SEO. If you're already using them as part of your analysis, congrats - if not, I encourage you to read this post. In this post we're going to: Briefly introduce a server log hit Understand common issues with Googlebot's crawl Use a server log to...

By: CJ Patrick May 30th, 2012

Expires Headers for SEO: Why You Should Think Twice Before Using Them

Technical SEO

This article explains what expires headers are and how they benefit SEO, explains the dangers of improper implementation, and offers some insight on preventing issues.

By: Lindsay Wassell May 14th, 2012

Response Codes Explained with Pictures

Technical SEO

Einstein once said, 'If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough.' It is in this spirit that I present my brick-and-mortar retail store analogy to HTTP Response Codes.

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