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@badams @badams Technical SEO for Content Marketers

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@badams @badams What is Technical SEO?

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@badams @badams Web Search Engines Crawler Indexer Ranker

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@badams @badams 1. Crawler (Googlebot) Crawler Indexer Ranker

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@badams @badams 2. Indexer (Caffeine) Crawler Indexer Ranker

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@badams @badams Two Stages of Indexing Crawler Indexer Ranker 1 2

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@badams 3. Ranker (Query Engine) Crawler Indexer Ranker

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@badams @badams The Three Pillars of SEO Technology Relevancy Authority

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@badams @badams Relation to Web Search Technology Crawler Relevance Indexer Authority Query Engine

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@badams @badams Relation to Web Search Technology Crawler Relevance Indexer Authority Query Engine

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@badams @badams Technical SEO Technology Crawler Relevance Indexer Authority Query Engine

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@badams @badams 1. Page Experience 2. Structured Data

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@badams @badams Page Experience

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@badams @badams https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/05/evaluating-page-experience.html

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@badams @badams Page Experience

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@badams @badams Core Web Vitals https://web.dev/vitals/

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@badams @badams Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) • How fast does the page content load? ➢It measures when the visible content on your screen is rendered • Includes text, images, and videos • Optimal is 2.5 seconds or faster

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@badams @badams First Input Delay (FID) • How fast does the page respond to a user’s input? ➢ Does it respond quickly to scrolls & taps when it first loads? • Human reaction time averages around 215 ms ➢ Anything over 300ms would be noticeable lag

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@badams @badams Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) • Does the page layout change after it’s loaded? ➢ That annoying thing when content & links move around after you’ve started reading the page • Reported scores are indicative of amount and severity of layout changes

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@badams @badams Mobile Friendly

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@badams Interstitials

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@badams Interstitials “…pages where content is not easily accessible to a user on the transition from the mobile search results may not rank as highly.”

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@badams Bad Interstitials

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@badams Acceptable Interstitials

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@badams @badams Structured Data

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@badams © 2019 | Private and Confidential Google Discover

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@badams @badams Image Resolution & Aspect Ratio 1200px Variable* *Aspect Ratios: • 16x9 • 4x3 • 1x1

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@badams @badams Implementing Article Schema

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@badams @badams Implementing Article Schema https://technicalseo.com/tools/schema-markup-generator/

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@badams @badams Embedded Videos

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@badams @badams Validate

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@badams @badams Validate

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@badams @badams Summarised

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@badams @badams Optimise for Page Experience • Core Web Vitals; ➢ Use PageSpeed Insights to check for improvement opportunities • Make sure your content is fully mobile-friendly • No intrusive interstitials; ➢ Unless Google can’t see them

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@badams @badams Implement Structured Data • Article schema markup for your posts; ➢ Ensure the featured image in your markup is at least 1200 pixels wide ➢Aspect ratio of 16x9, 4x3, or 1x1 • VideoObject markup for embedded videos • Validate with Structured Data Testing Tool / Rich Results Test

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@badams @badams Barry Adams ➢ Doing SEO since 1998 ➢ Specialist in Technical SEO & News SEO ➢ Chief Editor at State of Digital

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@badams @badams Thank You! [email protected] @badams