Technical SEO

Explore SEO terms under the Technical SEO category. Learn definitions, difficulty levels, and related concepts.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCrawling

Also known as: site crawling

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: crawl statscrawl trapsdeferred deep linkingdomain migration

๐Ÿ› ๏ธIndexing

Also known as: search indexing

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: index bloatindexifembeddedindexing api for jobpostingindexing api for live videos

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCrawl Budget

Also known as: crawl rate

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: content security policycontent typecrawl errorscrawl rate limit

๐Ÿ› ๏ธRobots.txt

Also known as: robots exclusion file

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: rich snippetsrobots meta tagrobots vs noindexrobotstxt allow

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCanonical Tags

Also known as: rel=canonical

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: cache bustingcache controlcanonical vs noindexchange management for seo

๐Ÿ› ๏ธDuplicate Content

Also known as: content duplication

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: deferred deep linkingdomain migrationedge cachingedge redirects

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ301 Redirect

Also known as: permanent redirect

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: 302 redirect404 erroraccessible nameacquirelicense pagealt attribute

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ302 Redirect

Also known as: temporary redirect

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: 301 redirect404 error410 error

๐Ÿ› ๏ธAccelerated Mobile Pages

Also known as: AMP

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: accept encodingaccept languageandroid app linksapi

๐Ÿ› ๏ธAPI

Also known as: application programming interface

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: ampandroid app linksapp content parityapp indexing

๐Ÿ› ๏ธBreadcrumbs

Also known as: navigation breadcrumbs

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: app content parityapp indexingbypass cache on cookiecache

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCache

Also known as: web cache

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: breadcrumbsbypass cache on cookiecache bustingcache control

๐Ÿ› ๏ธClick Depth

Also known as: page depth

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: canonical vs noindexchange management for seocontent encodingcontent length

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSchema Markup

Also known as: structured data

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: robotstxt sitemaprobotstxt user agentscrapingsemantic search

๐Ÿ› ๏ธEntity SEO

Also known as: entity optimization

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: edge redirectsedge workersetagexpires

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSemantic Search

Also known as: semantic indexing

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: schema markupscrapingserver timingserverside rendering

๐Ÿ› ๏ธRich Snippets

Also known as: enhanced snippets

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: redirect mappingreferrer policyrobots meta tagrobots txt

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCrawl Errors

Also known as: crawl issues

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: content typecrawl budgetcrawl rate limitcrawl stats

๐Ÿ› ๏ธGoogle Algorithm

Also known as: search algorithm

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: firebase app indexinggeo routinggoogle dancegoogle penalty

๐Ÿ› ๏ธRanking Factors

Also known as: search ranking factors

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: prerenderingquery deserves freshnessrate limitingreconsideration request

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSite Architecture

Also known as: website structure

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: server timingserverside renderingsite migrationsite search

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSitemap

Also known as: XML sitemap

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: site migrationsite searchsitemap indexsoft 404

๐Ÿ› ๏ธStructured Data

Also known as: JSON-LD

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: staging noindexstaging parity checkssubdomainthin index

๐Ÿ› ๏ธPenalty Recovery

Also known as: Google penalty recovery

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: pagination best practicesparameter handlingpermissions policyplatform migration

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSite Migration

Also known as: website migration

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: serverside renderingsite architecturesite searchsitemap

๐Ÿ› ๏ธLatent Semantic Indexing

Also known as: LSI

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: javascript seolast modifiedlink headerlog field bytes sent

๐Ÿ› ๏ธGooglebot

Also known as: Google crawler

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: google dancegoogle penaltyhealth checkshreflang in sitemap

๐Ÿ› ๏ธGoogle Penalty

Also known as: search penalty

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: google algorithmgoogle dancegooglebothealth checks

๐Ÿ› ๏ธNegative SEO

Also known as: SEO sabotage

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: max snippetmax video previewnews sitemapnoarchive

๐Ÿ› ๏ธNoindex Tag

Also known as: noindex directive

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: noimageindexnoindexnosnippetnotranslate

๐Ÿ› ๏ธQuery Deserves Freshness

Also known as: QDF

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: pre launch seo qaprerenderingranking factorsrate limiting

๐Ÿ› ๏ธReconsideration Request

Also known as: Google reconsideration

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: ranking factorsrate limitingredirect chainredirect mapping

๐Ÿ› ๏ธRedirect Chain

Also known as: multiple redirects

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: rate limitingreconsideration requestredirect mappingreferrer policy

๐Ÿ› ๏ธRobots Meta Tag

Also known as: robots directive

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: referrer policyrich snippetsrobots txtrobots vs noindex

๐Ÿ› ๏ธScraping

Also known as: web scraping

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: robotstxt user agentschema markupsemantic searchserver timing

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSite Search

Also known as: internal search

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: site architecturesite migrationsitemapsitemap index

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSSL Certificate

Also known as: HTTPS certificate

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: sitemap indexsoft 404staging noindexstaging parity checks

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSubdomain

Also known as: website subdomain

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: staging parity checksstructured datathin indextiming allow origin

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL Parameters

Also known as: query parameters

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url normalizationurl pagination parametersurl pathurl protocol

๐Ÿ› ๏ธWebmaster Guidelines

Also known as: Google Webmaster Guidelines

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: video sitemapwaf ruleswebpage indexingx content type options

๐Ÿ› ๏ธWebpage Indexing

Also known as: page indexing

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: waf ruleswebmaster guidelinesx content type optionsx frame options

๐Ÿ› ๏ธXML Sitemap

Also known as: sitemap.xml

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: x frame optionsx robots tagaccessible nameacquirelicense pagealt attribute

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ404 Error

Also known as: not found error

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: 301 redirect302 redirect410 erroraccept encoding

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ410 Error

Also known as: gone error

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: 302 redirect404 erroraccept encodingaccept language

๐Ÿ› ๏ธGoogle Dance

Also known as: SERP fluctuations

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: geo routinggoogle algorithmgoogle penaltygooglebot

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCache-Control

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: cachecache bustingcanonical tagscanonical vs noindex

๐Ÿ› ๏ธExpires

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: entity seoetagfirebase app indexinggeo routing

๐Ÿ› ๏ธETag

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: edge workersentity seoexpiresfirebase app indexing

๐Ÿ› ๏ธVary

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url url encodingurl utm parametersvideo sitemapwaf rules

๐Ÿ› ๏ธX-Robots-Tag

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: x content type optionsx frame optionsxml sitemap

๐Ÿ› ๏ธReferrer-Policy

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: redirect chainredirect mappingrich snippetsrobots meta tag

๐Ÿ› ๏ธAccept-Encoding

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: 404 error410 erroraccept languageamp

๐Ÿ› ๏ธAccept-Language

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: 410 erroraccept encodingampandroid app links

๐Ÿ› ๏ธServer-Timing

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: scrapingsemantic searchserverside renderingsite architecture

๐Ÿ› ๏ธTiming-Allow-Origin

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: subdomainthin indexurl cctldurl domain

๐Ÿ› ๏ธnoindex

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: nofollownoimageindexnoindex tagnosnippet

๐Ÿ› ๏ธnofollow

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: news sitemapnoarchivenoimageindexnoindex

๐Ÿ› ๏ธnoarchive

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: negative seonews sitemapnofollownoimageindex

๐Ÿ› ๏ธnosnippet

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: noindexnoindex tagnotranslateorigin failover

๐Ÿ› ๏ธnotranslate

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: noindex tagnosnippetorigin failoverorigin fetch

๐Ÿ› ๏ธnoimageindex

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: noarchivenofollownoindexnoindex tag

๐Ÿ› ๏ธmax-snippet

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: log file analysismax image previewmax video previewnegative seo

๐Ÿ› ๏ธmax-video-preview

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: max image previewmax snippetnegative seonews sitemap

๐Ÿ› ๏ธindexifembedded

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: image sitemapindex bloatindexingindexing api for jobposting

๐Ÿ› ๏ธrobots.txt User-agent

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: robotstxt hostrobotstxt sitemapschema markupscraping

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSitemap Index

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: site searchsitemapsoft 404ssl certificate

๐Ÿ› ๏ธImage Sitemap

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: http to https migrationhydrationindex bloatindexifembedded

๐Ÿ› ๏ธVideo Sitemap

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url utm parametersvarywaf ruleswebmaster guidelines

๐Ÿ› ๏ธNews Sitemap

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: max video previewnegative seonoarchivenofollow

๐Ÿ› ๏ธHreflang in Sitemap

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: googlebothealth checkshttp 103 early hintshttp 200 ok

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCrawl Stats

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: crawl errorscrawl rate limitcrawl trapscrawling

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCrawl Traps

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: crawl rate limitcrawl statscrawlingdeferred deep linking

๐Ÿ› ๏ธSoft 404

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: sitemapsitemap indexssl certificatestaging noindex

๐Ÿ› ๏ธThin Index

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: structured datasubdomaintiming allow originurl cctld

๐Ÿ› ๏ธIndex Bloat

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: hydrationimage sitemapindexifembeddedindexing

๐Ÿ› ๏ธStaging Noindex

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: soft 404ssl certificatestaging parity checksstructured data

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCrawl Rate Limit

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: crawl budgetcrawl errorscrawl statscrawl traps

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: Protocol

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url parametersurl pathurl query stringurl referral parameters

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: Subdomain

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url session idsurl sort parametersurl tldurl url encoding

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: Domain

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: timing allow originurl cctldurl filter parametersurl fragment

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: TLD

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url sort parametersurl subdomainurl url encodingurl utm parameters

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: ccTLD

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: thin indextiming allow originurl domainurl filter parameters

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: Query String

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url pathurl protocolurl referral parametersurl session ids

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: URL Encoding

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url subdomainurl tldurl utm parametersvary

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: UTM Parameters

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url tldurl url encodingvaryvideo sitemap

๐Ÿ› ๏ธURL: Filter Parameters

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: url cctldurl domainurl fragmenturl normalization

๐Ÿ› ๏ธEdge Caching

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: domain migrationduplicate contentedge redirectsedge workers

๐Ÿ› ๏ธOrigin Fetch

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: notranslateorigin failoverorphan pagespagination best practices

๐Ÿ› ๏ธOrigin Failover

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: nosnippetnotranslateorigin fetchorphan pages

๐Ÿ› ๏ธHealth Checks

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: google penaltygooglebothreflang in sitemaphttp 103 early hints

๐Ÿ› ๏ธCache Busting

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: bypass cache on cookiecachecache controlcanonical tags

๐Ÿ› ๏ธBypass Cache on Cookie

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: app indexingbreadcrumbscachecache busting

๐Ÿ› ๏ธEdge Redirects

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: duplicate contentedge cachingedge workersentity seo

๐Ÿ› ๏ธEdge Workers

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: edge cachingedge redirectsentity seoetag

๐Ÿ› ๏ธGeo Routing

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: expiresfirebase app indexinggoogle algorithmgoogle dance

๐Ÿ› ๏ธWAF Rules

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: varyvideo sitemapwebmaster guidelineswebpage indexing

๐Ÿ› ๏ธAndroid App Links

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: accept languageampapiapp content parity

๐Ÿ› ๏ธApp Indexing

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: apiapp content paritybreadcrumbsbypass cache on cookie

๐Ÿ› ๏ธFirebase App Indexing

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: etagexpiresgeo routinggoogle algorithm

๐Ÿ› ๏ธDeferred Deep Linking

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: crawl trapscrawlingdomain migrationduplicate content

๐Ÿ› ๏ธApp Content Parity

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: android app linksapiapp indexingbreadcrumbs

๐Ÿ› ๏ธDomain Migration

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: crawlingdeferred deep linkingduplicate contentedge caching

๐Ÿ› ๏ธStaging Parity Checks

Difficulty: Intermediate

Related: ssl certificatestaging noindexstructured datasubdomain