Technical SEO involves ensuring a website meets search engine requirements to improve organic rankings. It includes important elements like crawling, indexing, rendering, and website architecture. Crawling is how search engines discover new and updated content through bots. Indexing organizes this information in the search engine's database, while rendering retrieves pages and assesses content layout. Other technical SEO best practices include having an organized site structure, SEO-friendly URLs, sitemaps, and managing redirects and error pages.
2. Technical SEO is the process of ensuring that a website meets the technical requirements of modern search
engines with the goal of improved organic rankings. Important elements of technical SEO include
crawling, indexing, rendering, and website architecture.
What is Technical SEO?
3. Crawling
bots
Fatch
Data
Content can vary it could be a webpage, an image, a video or a PDF
The Basic structure of Crawling
Crawling
Webpages
Store in
the Index
User queries
Results
Sending
Data
Ranking
Algorithm
Crawling is the discovery process in which search engines send out a team of robots to find new and updated content.
But regardless of the format, content is discovered by links
4. Indexing & Rendering
Indexing is how search engines organize the information and the websites that they know about
Google bots catagories your content in its data base depanding on its nature and competition
Rendering is the process where Googlebot retrieves your pages, runs your code, and assesses your content
to understand the layout or structure of your site.
5. Caching
When ever google bots comes to our website it take a snapshot and that snapshot is called cached version of our website
When you are not connected to the live website you are connected to the cached version
7. How to check Indexing & Caching
site:therahulsharma.com
Cache:therahulsharma.com
8. SEO friendly URLs
An SEO friendly URL accurately describes the page using keywords that are easy to read for both search engines and users
9. Make less depth URLs
Use keywords in the URL not but
do not stuff
Use hyphens(-) to distinguish
words not Under score(_)
Use lowercase in the urls
Ignore numeric labels idea
Use trailing slash to define
catagory
Avoid using dates
Do not use special character
Tips for SEO friendly URLS
10. Sitemap
A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other
files on your site, and the relationships between them.
Sitemap helps google bots to crawl our website efficiently within crawl budget
11. Why Sitemaps
Sitemaps are
Good for large
websites
Your site has a
lot of rich media
content (video,
Images)
We need
sitemaps if the
pages are
isolated & not
well linked to
each other
Even without a sitemap, your website can be crawled.
However, sitemaps make crawlers' lives easier
12. Types of Sitemaps
Makes information machine readable
Makes information human readable
HTML Sitemap
XML Sitemap
13. How to create XML Sitemaps
Automatically get created via Yoast
plugin
Free sitemap generator tools
Custom websites
WP websites
14. Using plugin- Simple sitemap
Manually created by the developer
Custom websites
WP websites
How to create HTML Sitemaps
15. robots.txt
Robots.txt is a text file with instructions for search engine robots that tells them which
pages they should and shouldn't crawl
16. Why robots.txt
To optimize the
crawl budget
We do not want
the crawler to
crawl
unwanted
pages for
security reasons
we don't want
to take the
crawler to
unwanted
resources on the
website
robots.txt files are instructions not order to google
18. Uploading robots.txt files
File manager in Yoast
C PANAL - FILE MANAGER-ROOT DOMAIN
(Robots.txt)
Custom websites
WP websites
Check whether the robots.txt file properly submitted or not with Webmaster tool robots.txt
19. Error 404 Page
Users may experience frustration when encountering 404 errors, hence the main goal of this page
is to make this experience positive.
Stops audience diverting with error 404 page
20. Redirections
A redirection is to send both users and search engines to a different URL from the one they originally requested
Redirection is a solution to the broken link
22. When to apply 301 Redirection
When the webpage/website is moved
The Domain is changed
Ownership is changed
Duplicate page/ post
Http to https
Page Rank & link juice will be transferred to the new page/website
23. When to apply 302 Redirection
When page/website is updating or under maintenance
Should be relevant page to be transferred on
Link juice and authority will not be transferred
24. Schema markup structured data
Schema markup (schema.org) is a structured data vocabulary that helps search engines to understand
your website's content in a better way. It is inter search engines platform
25. Why schema markup is important
It tells search engines about your website in a better way
Check the schema in the source code
It improves the appearance of your website on SERP
We can put more than one schema on one website
26. Types of Schema Markup
Make a Separate faq page and then put the schema
27. How to apply Schema Markup
Use All In one snippets plungs
If you have one schema then put it on the website header
Copy from your competitor
We can put more than one schema on one website
28. Opengraph
Open graph is a protocol created by Facebook to standardize the use of metadata on webpages
29. How to apply Opengraph
Social in Yoast
https://smallseotools.com/open-graph-
generator/
Custom websites
WP websites
Check whether the robots.txt file properly submitted or not with Webmaster tool robots.txt
30. Twitter Card
The Twitter cards feature lets you attach rich photos, videos, and media
experiences to Tweets, driving traffic to your website
31. How to apply Twitter Cards
Social in Yoast
https://wtools.io/twitter-card-generator
Custom websites
WP websites