On-Page SEO
Search Engine Optimization can be done via a few tried and tested methods. Let's discuss them here.
Introduction
On-page SEO techniques can be applied directly to your content. These are factors that you have direct control over, such as the words you use in the website’s content. Let’s discuss a few important on-page SEO techniques.
📝 Note: Since this course is geared toward front-end interviews, we’ll be focusing on optimizing website content (such as blog posts) in this lesson.
If you’d like a course on optimizing other sorts of content on different platforms, drop us an email and we’ll make one!
Easy to crawl and index
Before you can start optimizing, you need to make sure Google can crawl your page in the first place. Simply put, if Google spiders can’t access your page, it can’t rank.
Here are a few common culprits that mitigate page indexability and crawlability:
Robots.txt
files are often a culprit. Google provides testing facilities to see if yourRobots.txt
is preventing crawling.noindex
tags also stop indexing.- Pages buried deep in the website’s architecture prevent them from getting indexed.
📝: In general, your page shouldn’t be more than 3 ...