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technical SEO

Meaning in digital marketing & SEO, with examples

nounCommon term

In digital marketing & SEO, technical SEO means: SEO work on how a site is built, so that search engines can crawl, render and index it; it covers things like speed, redirects and sitemaps.

In Turkish: teknik SEO

How it is used

Usually shared between SEO specialists and developers. A technical SEO audit finds issues such as broken links, slow pages, duplicate URLs or pages blocked from indexing.

Example sentences

  1. The technical SEO audit found 4,000 pages blocked by a single line in robots.txt.

  2. We need a developer who understands technical SEO for the site migration.

Common collocations

  • technical SEO audit
  • technical SEO issues
  • fix technical SEO
  • site speed
  • crawlTo visit web pages automatically and follow their links, which is how search engine bots discover and read content.
  • indexTo add a web page to a search engine's database so that it can appear in search results. As a noun, 'index' is that database itself.
  • sitemapA file, usually in XML format, that lists the important pages of a website so that search engines can find and crawl them more easily.
  • 301 redirectA redirect that permanently sends users and search engines from an old URL to a new one, so the new page can take over the old page's rankings.

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