Technical SEO | Joomla Day Chicago 2012
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often times SEO is not a technical priority for a development team, mostly because it is difficult and takes a significant amount of invested time and effort. This session will cover how-to information and SEO advice on how to adjust for server and design issues that may be negatively impacting your search engine optimization efforts. We will discuss the 3 main factors of technical SEO: crawling,indexation, and ranking. Additional topics include redirects & server delivery, robots, site architecture, site performance, sitemap protocols, and more.
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Technical SEO | Joomla Day Chicago 2012
- 1. Get Your Nerd On: Technical SEO JoomlaDay! Chicago 2012 Jessica Dunbar
- 3. What we will cover Accessibility Indexability On-Page Ranking Factors
- 5. What is Robots.txt? used to restrict search engine crawlers from accessing sections of your website
- 9. Robots Meta Tags The robots meta tag is used to tell search engine crawlers if they are allowed to index a specific page and follow its links. <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> superior to robots.txt
- 10. What are HTTP Status Codes? response status codes are returned whenever search engines or website visitors make a request to a web server.
- 11. 200 Ok/Success
- 12. 301 The data requested has been assigned a new URI, the change is permanent.
- 13. 302 The data requested actually resides under a different URL, however, the redirection may be altered on occasion
- 14. 404
- 15. 500
- 16. 503
- 17. What are Sitemaps? Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.
- 18. What is site architecture?
- 19. Flash and JavaScript Navigation
- 20. Site Performance Users have a very limited attention span, and if your site takes too long to load, they will leave. Search engine crawlers have a limited amount of time that they can allocate to each site on the Internet.
- 21. http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ https://developers.google.com/spee d/pagespeed/insights
- 22. Indexability
- 23. Site: Command
- 25. Make Sure You've Been Penalized
- 26. Reason(s) for the Penalty
- 27. Fix the Site's Penalized Behavior
- 29. Best Practice URLs ● Is the URL short and user-friendly? ● Does the URL include relevant keywords? ● Is the URL using subfolders instead of subdomains? ● Does the URL avoid using excessive parameters? ● Is the URL using hyphens to separate words?
- 30. What Is Duplicate Content? Duplicate content exists when any two (or more) pages share the same or similar content content. http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate- content
- 31. True Duplicates A true duplicate is any page that is 100% identical (in content) to another page. These pages only differ by the URL:
- 32. Near Duplicates A near duplicate differs from another page (or pages) by a very small amount – it could be a block of text, an image, or even the order of the content:
- 33. Cross-domain Duplicates A cross-domain duplicate occurs when two websites share the same piece of content: These duplicates could be either “true” or “near” duplicates.
- 34. “www” vs. Non-www www.example.com Vs. example.com
- 35. Staging Servers Example.com Vs. dev.example.com
- 36. Trailing Slashes ("/") www.example.com Vs. example.com
- 38. Home-page Duplicates example.com Vs. example.com/index.php
- 39. Duplicate Paths example.com/electronics/ipods Vs. example.com/apple-products/ipods
- 42. Other “Thin” Content www.example.com Vs. example.com
- 43. Scraped Content
- 44. How To Find ● http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content- in-a-post-panda-world
- 48. Your Own Brain
- 49. Questions
Editor's Notes
- The robots exclusion protocol (REP), or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) on how to crawl & index pages on their website. http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt
- This tells engines they can visit but they are not allowed to display the URL in results.
- HyperText Transfer Protocol (or HTTP) response status codes are returned whenever search engines or website visitors make a request to a web server. These three digit codes indicate the response and status of HTTP requests. http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/http-status-codes
- 200 or 2xx These codes indicate success
- 3xx are types of redirection codes. 301 is This and all future requests should be directed to the given uri
- required the client to perform a temporary redirect (the original describing phrase was "Moved Temporarily") Make life easy, Pass your link Juice use a 301
- The requested resource could not be found. Importance of 404's. Do not redirect 404's to home page or to show a 200 status.
- indicate cases in which the server is aware that it has encountered an error or is otherwise incapable of performing the request
- The server is currently unavailable (because it is overloaded or down for maintenance)
- http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184 Your site has dynamic content. Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process—for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or images. Manually submit and checkover your sitemap Auto Sitemaps can have baggage NO ERRORS NO 301s
- Your site architecture defines the overall structure of your website, including its vertical depth (how many levels it has) as well as its horizontal breadth at each level. When evaluating your site architecture, identify how many clicks it takes to get from the homepage to other important pages. Also, evaluate how well pages are linking to others in the site's hierarchy, and make sure the most important pages are prioritized in the architecture. Ideally, you want to strive for a flatter site architecture that takes advantage of both vertical and horizontal linking opportunities. It’s about getting the best, most relevant content in front of users and reducing the number of times they have to click to find it. The same applies to search engines, by flattening your site architecture; you can make potential gains in indexation metrics such as the number of pages generating search engine traffic and the number of pages in a search engine index.
- Although search engine crawlers are smarter. It is still safer to avoid Flash and JavaScript navigation rather than fix it
- pages that search engines are allowed to access. how many of those pages are actually being indexed by the search engines.
- The index and actual counts are roughly equivalent - this is the ideal scenario. The index count is significantly smaller than the actual count - this scenario indicates that the search engines are not indexing many of your site's pages. The index count is significantly larger than the actual count - this scenario usually suggests that your site is serving duplicate content
- Hopefully, you never have to deal with this. But if you think your site has been penalized, here are 4 steps to help you fix the situation:
- Be sure you are actually penalize. Use the previous accessibility checks.
- Step 2: Identify the Reason(s) for the Penalty Once you're sure the site has been penalized, you need to investigate the root cause for the penalty. If you receive a formal notification from a search engine, this step is already complete.
- Step 3: Fix the Site's Penalized Behavior Step 4: Beg for forgivness
- For each of the on-page ranking factors, we'll focus on URLS, and Duplicate Conten http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2011/06/30-new-google-ranking-factors-you-may-over-or-underestimate.html
- “ www” vs. Non-www For sitewide duplicate content, this is probably the biggest culprit.
- Duplicate Paths Having duplicate paths to a page is perfectly fine, but when duplicate paths generate duplicate URLs, then you’ve got a problem.
- Product Variations Product variant pages are pages that come from the main product page and is only different by an option. Example. Ipod Nano, all the same just color variation
- Geo-keyword Variations Back in the good old days, you just copying all of your pages 100s of times, adding a city name to the URL, and use a find and replace. Content wins here,now days you need to get creative.
- Other “Thin” Content
- Scraped Content Scraped content is just copied content, except that you didn’t ask permission. It's illegal STOP IT
- Google Webmaster Tools In Google Webmaster Tools, you can pull up a list of duplicate TITLE tags and Meta Descriptions Google has crawled. This is a good starting Point.
- Google’s Site: Command When you already have a sense of where you might be running into trouble and need to take a deeper look Google’s “site:” command is very powerful