A Practical Guide to Search Intent
Search intent is what a person is actually trying to do when they type a query, and therefore what kind of page can satisfy them. Someone typing "how long does...
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Search intent is what a person is actually trying to do when they type a query, and therefore what kind of page can satisfy them. Someone typing "how long does...
Technical SEO audits answer one blunt question: can search engines crawl, render, index and understand the pages you care about? If the answer is no for even a...
On-page optimization is the work of making each page on a website clearly describe what it is about: its title element, its headings, the structure of its conte...
XML sitemaps are among the oldest and least glamorous tools in technical SEO, and also among the most misunderstood. A sitemap is a machine-readable list of the...
Robots.txt and crawl control are the set of decisions that govern which URLs search engine crawlers may request on your site, and separately, which of those URL...
Canonicalisation and duplicate content come down to one question: when the same page, or nearly the same page, can be reached at several web addresses, which ad...
Internal linking is the set of links between pages on your own website: the menus, breadcrumbs, category listings and, most importantly, the links written into...
Earning links from other sites, through work worth citing rather than through schemes that manufacture them. The key figures Link spam policy search engines pub...
Optimizing for searches with local intent, where proximity and the business profile matter as much as the website. Where most projects go wrong The usual mistak...
Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trust — the framework in Google's quality rater guidelines for judging whether content deserves to be relied on. Wh...
Deciding what to update, consolidate, redirect or remove in an existing content library. At a glance Options update, consolidate, redirect, noindex or delete Co...
The reporting tool that shows how a search engine sees your site: queries, coverage, enhancements and errors. What is at stake It is the only source of first-pa...
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