ConversionXL – Martijn Scheijbeler – Technical SEO
Description of Technical SEO
Keyword research and basic SEO can only take you so far.
Implementing technical SEO could be the difference between ranking on Page 1…or never being indexed. You need to know how to audit your site for technical SEO needs and improvements so you can get more visitors, leads, sales and signups for your business.
This course give you deep, current knowledge of technical SEO: the behind-the-scenes components like site structure, JavaScript, and structured data that can have a massive impact on rankings. Whether you’re barely familiar with these components or simply want to ensure you’re up to date, this course covers each in detail.
After taking this course, you’ll…
- Know what is important in a technical audit and how to start one yourself.
- Be able to optimize on-page content with the right keywords & page structure.
- Understand what a good URL structure is and how you can influence crawl behavior.
- Know how to use JavaScript frameworks to influence technical SEO.
- Easily create XML sitemaps to help you better understand content & index rates.
- Be skilled at marking up your content with structured data so it can extract entities.
- Be able to decide on the right domain strategy, URL structure, content & keywords while working across multiple countries.
What will you learn in Technical SEO?
1. Technical SEO, the basics
In the first class, we’ll be guiding you through the basics of Technical SEO, we’ll teach you about what a page looks like (its HTML), how it’s made up and what you can immediately improve when you look at a page (meta tags, on-page content).
Topics Covered:
- What tools can you use to crawl a site to learn more about the technical issues & improvements?
- How does a search engine look at your page and ‘understand’ what it’s about?
- META Tags: Description, Keywords, Robots, Canonical, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, HREFlang.
- Content Tags: Headings, Styling, Paragraphs, Internal Links & Image Optimization, Broken Links.
- Starting a crawl, using tools to crawl your site to learn more about Technical SEO.
2. URL Structures & Indexing
In the second lesson, we’ll go in-depth about how to create a good URL structure and what tools you have to guide crawlers around your site and how to prevent them from accessing certain areas. We’ll talk about how you can streamline what crawlers look at and what kind of tools you have to influence this.
Topics Covered:
- Pagination: How do you handle pagination for (category) pages.
- URL Structure: What is a good URL structure and what isn’t & how should URLs be build up.
- Robots.txt: How to influence crawl behavior and exclude crawlers from certain areas.
- URL Parameters: Provide signals to search engines on what parameters are actually useful or not.
- Internal Linking: How do you link to other pages, why does it matter and what can you do to improve relevance across ‘silos’ of pages?
3. Crawl Behaviour & Crawlability
Lesson three explores the abilities you have to follow crawlers and what learnings come from that. As part of this class, we’ll talk about the tools you have to influence crawlability.
Topics Covered:
- Crawl Errors & Crawl Budget
- HTTP > HTTPS
- Status Codes (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx)
- Redirects (Apache/Nginx)
- WWW / NONWWW
- 301/302
- 500
- 302
- 410
- Log File Analysis: What does a request look like.
- What does the user agent of Google look like?
- JavaScript rendering: React, Angular, Vue, SSR/CSR, SPA, etc.
- Analyzing data from Headers
4. Sitemaps
Not every page on your site is always visible to a search engine, or what if you add hundreds of pages. That’s where sitemaps come in, they’ll give you the tools to provide search engines with an overview of your content and give you the insights into what pages are being crawled & indexed.
Topics Covered:
- XML Sitemaps; how to build the perfect XML sitemaps.
- HTML Sitemaps.
5. Structured Data Markup
Does a search engine really understand what your content is about? With structured data, you give the search engines a better idea by marking up your content. It will help search engines understand what a particular entity means and how it relates to others.
Topics Covered:
- Structured data and how it helps you and search engines.
- Schema.org & JSON-LD: The basics.
- The most recurring Schema.org snippets you’ll need.
6. Improving site/page speed
What is fast and what isn’t? This lesson introduces techniques that can improve site speed and what tools there are that better inform you of this.
Topics Covered:
- Analyzing waterfalls
- DNS Prefetch/Prerender
- Lazy loading
- Caching
- Server Requests
7. International SEO
If your organization operates in multiple countries there are certain steps you have to take in order to make sure that you have optimized for all technical aspects. You don’t want a German page ranking for your US customers and vice versa. In this lesson, we’ll talk about tools available to optimize your site for international SEO.
8. The future of Technical SEO
Is AI going to take over the world? In this lesson, we’ll talk about the new technologies (that have been available for a bit) that are steering the way websites will operate in the future.
Topics Covered:
- SEO Experimentation
- Accelerated Mobile Pages
- Progressive Web Apps
- Edge SEO
Technical SEO is right for you if you…
- Handle SEO for a large, complex website and organic traffic growth from on-page optimizations has plateaued.
- Believe that a lack of technical SEO knowledge is keeping you from making clear, persuasive recommendations to your development team or clients.
Technical SEO is NOT for you if…
- You are looking for the latest code to apply to your site in order to rank better or are looking for a plugin to solve all your issues.
- You are a beginner or you don’t have any experience with SEO and you want to optimize your site. Likely too much of the content will be too intermediate-advanced for you.
- You are particularly interested in the other areas of SEO, this course doesn’t go into the specifics of how to build a link, optimize your H1 or do keyword research.
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