A website that is technically optimized may count on higher positions in Google’s search results. The technology of your website is comparable to the foundation of a house.
Technical SEO is the basis from which you start an SEO project and has a major impact on the results of all subsequent SEO work. Do you not have your technical SEO in order? Be prepared to notice this in your results.
Every SEO project should start with technical optimization. Technical problems with your website, such as 404 messages, long loading times or a redirect chain, ruin the user experience of your website.
Google punishes this by ranking your website lower. You are already down 1-0, even before you have started with content optimization or link building.
Google’s algorithm determines the position of your website in the search results. This algorithm pays attention to all kinds of things, including numerous technical aspects.
Technical SEO refers to improving the technology behind your website. This ensures a user-friendly and fast website, which is rewarded by Google with a higher ranking.
It is often thought that technical SEO is only about improving the loading speed, note that crawl budget optimization, improving the user experience, combating duplicate content and indexing problems are also considered when we speak about technical SEO.
The most important reason for many companies to start with technical SEO is because you want to rise in the Google search results. But just as important, and perhaps even more important, is the fact that you are doing your visitors a favor.
A technically optimized website ensures that you do not lose any visitors, for example due to a slow website or 404 reports. Moreover, a technically optimized website ensures that your visitors enjoy using your website.
This ensures that the relevance of your website increases, which in turn is rewarded with a higher ranking by Google.
Technical SEO is about optimizing various technical points of your website and includes more than just the loading speed. The complete list of technical issues that influence your rankings consists of more than 50 factors.
Components of a technical SEO process include:
With so many things to consider, technical SEO is a profession in itself. By optimizing the technique of your website alone, you will see your search positions increase.
Many marketers, at large and small companies, quickly lose the overview when it comes to SEO and specifically technical SEO. This may cost you positions in Google because when your competitor has everything in order, there is a good chance that your competitor will rank above you in the SERPs.
In addition to a comprehensive SEO audit, it is also possible to carry out a technical SEO audit. This is where we focus on all the issues that are important for the technical SEO of your website.
A technical SEO audit is a report with issues and concrete action points, prioritized from 1 to 5 (from important to less important), where we consider the time versus impact of the optimizations.
Issues that we examine within a technical SEO audit are:
Due to present technical SEO issues, you may receive a (real-time) penalty by Google. Think of the situation where dozens of variants of duplicate content are created unknowingly, which are punished with a penalty. Or missing canonical URLs, causing Google to view pages with parameters as duplicate content.
By optimizing the technique, if this is the cause of the penalty, you will recover quickly and regain your traffic and positions.
On average, Google performs a major algorithm update approximately 4 times a year: the Google Core Update. This Core Update should improve the search results, which benefits the Google users.
Within a Core Update, significant changes to the algorithm take place, which can have a major impact on your SEO performance. One part of these algorithm changes is the technique. When loading speed becomes more important and your loading speed is disappointing, you will see this reflected in your positions.
In the Google Core Update of May 2020, a correlation is also visible between websites with many pages that perform poorly and drops in positions. These pages can be caused by technical errors, whereby many pages are unconsciously created in the background.
Have you been affected by a Google Core Update? Then, the technology of your website is often an important starting point for recovery.
Our technical SEO specialists are ready to help you optimize your website. Whether this is a one-off SEO audit or ongoing optimizations. Please contact us to see what we can do for you.