Technical SEO for Developers | 17 Tips to Rank Higher!

What if you had the best website in the world, but no one could see it?
This is where technical SEO comes in. By implementing best practices on your website, you can ensure that Google indexes it properly and doesn't penalize it.
Join Alex Trost, Lead Developer Experience Engineer at Prismic, in this comprehensive checklist that you can apply to all of your websites.
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⚒️ Useful tools mentionned in this video:
pagespeed.web.dev
schema.org
letsencrypt.org
www.woorank.com/en/extension
www.semrush.com
ahrefs.com
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As a developer, you should build websites using your favorite Jamstack framework.
Prismic allows you to build website sections, that you can connect to a website builder for your client or team. They will create pages from there and you get that content back to your code through our fast API.
► [Tutorial] Build a full website with Next.js 13, Prismic, Tailwind and Typescript:
• Next.js Full Website T...
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• Nuxt 3 Crash Course - ...
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📍Chapters:
00:00 Intro - What is technical SEO?
01:38 Why is User Experience important for SEO?
02:09 Tip #1 - Core Web Vitals
03:21 Tip #2 - Optimize images
06:12 Tip #3 - Accessibility
07:41 Tip #4 - Mobile Responsiveness
08:36 Tip #5 - Reduce JavaScript
09:45 Tip #6 - Don't Require JavaScript
10:24 Tip #7 - URL Structure
11:25 Tip #8 - Unique Titles & Descriptions
12:02 Tip #9 - XML Sitemap
12:39 Tip #10 - Structured Data
13:47 Tip #11 - Canonical Tags
14:13 Tip #12 - Open Graph Metatags
15:48 Tip #13 - SSL/HTTPS
16:44 Tip #14 - Manage Redirects
17:22 Tip #15 - Create a useful 404 page
17:59 Tip #16 - Robots.txt
18:39 Tip #17 - Site Audits
21:07 Recap for Technical SEO
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#seo

[@ShahzainAli-tl8sk]

Thanks for the new video! I’m looking forward to seeing what other content you post! Always good to learn as much as you can!

[@MrDelliSanti]

That was probably the most useful breakdown I've watched so far. Also made me feel better that I've done the majority of what I need to do. Thanks.

[@Prismic]

Thanks! Glad it helped you!

[@TrostCodes]

Ah that's wonderful to hear, and well done already having most of it set!

[@shimmy1244]

VERY underrated SEO video. Thank you a lot for this

[@Prismic]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adamtechnology3204]

This man is talking with knowledge

[@sarahdulat3613]

This is THE SEO video for devs thank you

[@RYDERSEC]

Great video!

[@hamada8684]

Great content !! You are going places

[@ioannisme7495]

amazing, thank you very much, great explanation.

[@PeterGibson-cf7sl]

You explain it very well!

[@tjkohli]

Amazing as always, Alex!

[@TrostCodes]

Thanks so much, TJ! You're the man.

[@b1mind]

Great breakdown!

[@Minako9888]

Awesome content

[@SilenceKillsDesign]

This was an excellent video.

[@serispeaks]

Excellent tips 🎉❤

[@hudagamal5935]

We use Prismic at work, and this video is soooo helpful. It's also so simple and u, Alex, are a great presenter; u're so cool :D

[@Prismic]

Thank you! 😃

[@TrostCodes]

Thanks, Huda! So glad you found it helpful!

[@rezafirouzabadi176]

thank you it was great

[@ahmed.welhezi]

I think I speak for all junior SEOs when I say this: the video is great, the concepts are well explained but we want to know what to give the client/employer ? Is a good old google sheet with notes enough? Does it have to be a presentation? ... That's something that needs clarification in my opinion.

[@Minako9888]

I totally get you! I believe with new clients presentations are a better option because they are more engaging and easier to sell and impress than plain google sheets. Presentations seem to be used for portraying a good image than providing data. I prefer to provide both presentations and google sheets. I think once you are confident with your client, you can just provide them a google sheet.

[@lambo-ca]

SEO in 2024 and so on is basically dead. Google killed it last year in GHC update September 2023.