Category: Technical SEO
How User Interface Impacts SEO and Search Engine Rankings?
User Interface Impacts on SEO: Have you ever visited a site that was super slow to load, had a whole bunch of content all over the place or was just plain difficult to navigate? Doesn’t it just drive you crazy? A website that is not well designed is the same as a phone without a…
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What Is HTTPS? How It Functions and Its SEO Benefits
You must have seen the small padlock icon or maybe “HTTPS” at the beginning of a webpage URL, but many do not consider what these things really mean. Even though it looks like a minor detail, the whole poser of whether HTTP or HTTPS truly determines how secure and credible a site really is. In…
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Critical Faceted Navigation SEO Pitfalls: How to Fix Crawl and Index Issues
Faceted navigation allows restricting site search results through filtering options like colors, size, brand, or price. Big e-commerce and directory-type sites usually implement faceted navigation to maintain good user vendor experience that enables visitors to move directly to the product or service they need. On the contrary, by posing infinitely many URL versions, faceted navigation…
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Successful SEO Migration: How to Keep Traffic, Protect Rankings & Improve Visibility
Because of the SEO component, relocating a website from one setup to another is never an easy technical project. The risks to your search visibility grow by leaps and bounds whenever domains, CMS platforms, adjustments in site architecture, or URL structures change. This very concern gave rise to the term SEO migration, rather than just…
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Why Server Response Time Critically Impacts Your SEO (And How to Fix It Fast)
Server response time refers to how long a server takes to reply when a user attempts to access a web page. It is a measurement from the time of making a request to a time when the first byte of data is sent back. So, it measures how quickly the server responds when visitors come…
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How CDNs Affect Search Engine Crawling and Rankings
A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a group of servers positioned in various geographic locations that deliver stored copies of website content to users. All users are served content from a server near them instead of connecting to the primary hosting server. Thus, the users experience reduced load time, increased security, and even with high…
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How HTTP Status Codes Drive Efficient Crawling and Indexing
When a search engine is crawling your website, status codes are employed to indicate how every page should be handled. A 200 OK alerts the crawler that the page is available, whereas 301 redirects direct them to a new URL, and 404s declare the presence of nonexistent content. Although such codes may appear technical, they…
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How Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Supports SEO and Page Speed
The mobile experience greatly differs from one site to another. Some provide seamless navigation through their pages with a touch of graphic content; others, however, are slow-loading and become victims of numerous other performance issues. To fix such problems, Google conceived the ‘Accelerated Mobile Pages’ in 2016, a framework optimised for speed and UI performance…
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What Causes ‘Duplicate Without User-Selected Canonical’ in GSC and How to Fix It
The duplicate without user-selected canonical issue is common in Google Search Console, where Google finds multiple pages with even similar or identical content but is unclear as to which it must take into account for an index. Consequently, the ranking potential gets diluted, crawl budget gets wasted, and the search results get confused, hampering your…
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Index Bloating Issues: How They Affect SEO and How to Fix It
Many website owners and SEO experts put all their energies into producing new content and optimizing it and yet find their rankings below what they expect. Index bloating, which is a technical issue, could actually be one of the prime reasons behind this. Index bloating is when search engines end up indexing way too many…
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