Intermediate to Advanced Technical SEO

Delivery to your team in house, 1 day or 2 half days £2,500/$4,500CAD
Pay per Seat from £400 / $750 CAD (Early Bird Price)
Add on-going coaching and support: £POA

Who it’s for: Agency SEO Teams (especially Managers & Technical Specialists )| In-House SEO Teams | In-House SEO Managers working with SEO & Dev Agencies, | Devs working alongside SEO, or developing SEO friendly websites


Many members of SEO teams, both in house and in agency have a basic understanding of technical issues and what needs to be looked for and can impact visibility: but not always:

  • Why these issues are a problem for search engines
  • How to spot these problems
  • How to fix issues
  • How to prioritise issues
  • How to explain issues

This course is designed to take SEOs from a basic understanding and working knowledge to being hardcore technical SEOs able to confidently explain issues and detailed solutions to non-SEOs and discuss them and agree steps and acceptance crtiteria with Dev teams.

The course covers:

  • How all major search engines work
  • Crawling and Indexing
    • Mobile Friendly Websites
    • Controlling Crawling and Indexing
    • Sitemaps
    • Response Codes
    • Soft 404s and Custom 404s
    • HTTP and HTTPS
    • HTTP 1.1, HTTP.2, HTTP/3
    • Source code, Initial DOM and DOM
    • JavaScript and CSS
    • Web APPs & SPAs
    • Cookies
    • Content behind logins
    • Common Platform specific Issues
    • Headless CMSs
  • Backlinks and Internal Linking
    • How and why backlinks are vital for SEO
    • Link Equity
    • Topical Authority
    • Link Types
    • Internal vs External
    • What makes a good backlink
    • Optimising link equity flow
    • If & when to disavow links
    • Buried Pages
    • Orphan Pages
    • Horizontal linking and breadcrumbs
    • Global & Vertical Navigation
    • Anchor Text
  • Cannibalisation & Duplicate Content
    • CannibalisationInternational CannibalisationNear Duplicate ContentCommon Causes of duplicatesCanonicalsHreflangURL ParametersMerging contentRewriting contentRedirecting duplicate content
    • Handling duplicate and similar products
  • Impacting search visibility
    • Introduction to Schema
    • Product Schema
    • Other ‘SEO relevant’ Schema Types
  • Page Experience
    • Introduction to Core Web Vitals & Page Speed
    • Intrusive Interstitials
    • Mobile Usability Issues

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