How to get new pages or site updates indexed by Google quickly
Fetch as GoogleBot, Indexing API & methods to get your site recrawled by Google Back in 2010, I appeared on a Whiteboard Friday with Rand Fishkin talking about ways to get your site content indexed...
View ArticleAn SEO’s Guide to Using Robots Exclusion Protocol
How to use Robots.txt rules including wildcards, the X-Robots-Tag and noindex indexing directives to keep your content out of Google. Occasionally, we all find an item of content that has been indexed...
View ArticleHow to gather new data for content marketing research using data scraping
What is Scraping? “Scraping” is a way of automating or scaling the process of gathering information from different websites on the Internet. It’s a bit of a staple in the SEO skill set because of an...
View ArticleHow to get Fraggles – Using links to named anchors to improve your search...
What are Fraggles, and how do I get them? A very, very long time ago Google announced their support for a new feature, that they referred to as “jump to:” links. How do named anchors work? The jump to...
View ArticleHow to make a pivot table and chart in Excel
For those of you that have been following my work for the past decade (or more), you’ll know that much of my early work was teaching SEO’s how to use Excel. It seems that despite the long period of...
View ArticleHow to tidy up your .htaccess redirects
What’s a .htaccess file? How to tidy up all the redirects in your htaccess file Managing site redirects is an important SEO task and one that can bite you if it’s put off for too long. Especially if...
View ArticleAn SEO’s guide to site architecture
Visualising the principles of basic site architecture issues for SEO, identifying problems and devising actionable methods to solve them. Background to this article In 2011, I gave a presentation...
View ArticleHow to use Google advanced search operators to find indexation and technical...
We SEOs like our tools. Each one is instrumental in uncovering aspects of a site we might not have thought about or trawl information that would take years to do manually. One of the best tools,...
View ArticleUsing jQuery Safely: Local Fallbacks & Tag Sequences
In this article I’m going to explore two main concepts: First, we’ll look at several ways you can fall back to a local version of jQuery (or indeed any other JavaScript library) when using a CDN as...
View ArticleScaling Google indexation checks with Node.js
As technical SEO specialists, understanding how Google and other search engines crawl, render and index our websites stand among our top priorities. However, getting the necessary data to analyse each...
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