{"id":339,"date":"2017-11-28T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thejigsawseo.in\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:25:49","slug":"technical-seo-facts-you-should-know-as-a-beginner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejigsawseo.in\/blog\/technical-seo-facts-you-should-know-as-a-beginner\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Seo Facts You Should Know As A Beginner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The technical <\/span><\/span>S<\/b><\/span><\/span>earch <\/b><\/span><\/span>E<\/b><\/span><\/span>ngine <\/b><\/span><\/span>O<\/b><\/span><\/span>ptimization<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> is very interesting and awesome field. The person who handles the technical SEO is required to have excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills. There are few technical SEO facts that you need to know as a beginner. They might help you in making your <\/span><\/span>website<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> rank better in search results.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Are you a beginner in the field of <\/span><\/span>SEO<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a>? Looking for some guidance? If yes, do not worry we are here to guide you through some technical fact that will help you change from beginner to intermediate and then from intermediate to professional. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let us study the list of facts in detail<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Page speed matters<\/h3>\n

Most of the people think that a slow loading page is annoying but it has more consequences than that. Page speed has been a search ranking factor for a very long time, and Google also said that it may soon use mobile page speed as a factor in mobile search rankings.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Many people also use the Google\u2019s <\/span><\/span>PageSpeed Insights tool<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> to get an analysis of their site speed and recommendations for improvement. For all the people who are especially trying to improve mobile site performance, Google has a new <\/span><\/span>page speed tool<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> out that is mobile-focused. The page speed tool checks the page load time, tests your mobile site on the 3G connection, evaluate mobile usability and provides a detailed report to you on your provided email address.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Robots.txt files are case-sensitive and must be placed in a site\u2019s main directory<\/h3>\n

The <\/span><\/span>robots.txt<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> file should always be named in all lower case (robots.txt) in order to be recognized. Addition to this, crawlers only look in one place when they search for a robots.txt file that is the site\u2019s main directory. If the crawlers do not find the file in the main directory, they will continue to crawl assuming there is no such file.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Crawlers can\u2019t always access infinite scroll<\/h3>\n

If the crawlers cannot access the robot.txt, there are chances that your page might not rank. When you are using the infinite scroll for your site, make sure that there is<\/span><\/span> a paginated series of pages in addition to the one long scroll.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Google doesn\u2019t care how you structure your sitemap<\/h3>\n

As long as you are using XML, you can structure your sitemap the way you want. The category breakdown and the overall structure is totally up to you and it won\u2019t affect how <\/span><\/span>Google<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> crawls your site.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The noarchive tag will not hurt your Google rankings<\/h3>\n

If you use the noarchive tag then this tag will not display the cached version of your page in the Google search results and also it would not negatively affect your page\u2019s overall rankings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Google usually crawls your home page first<\/h3>\n

It is not necessary, but usually, Google finds the <\/span><\/span>home page<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> first. But if there are a large number of links to a specific page within your site then Google will crawl that page first instead of your homepage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Google scores internal and external links differently<\/h3>\n

This means that Google keeps a different score of the link to your content or website from a third-party site and a link from your own site.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can check the crawl budget of your site in Google Search Console<\/h3>\n

The crawl budget is the number of pages that search engines can and want to crawl in a given amount of time. You can get the idea of your crawl budget using the <\/span><\/span>Google Search Console<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> and you can also increase it from here if it is necessary.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Disallowing pages with no SEO value will improve your crawl budget<\/h3>\n

Pages that are less important to your <\/span><\/span>SEO<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> efforts often include the privacy policies, expired promotions or terms and conditions. If the page is not supposed to rank then it is fine if there is no 100 percent good-quality <\/span><\/span>content<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> on it and it is better to disallow the page or block it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is a lot to know about sitemaps<\/h3>\n