We've arrived at one of the meatiest SEO topics in our series: technical SEO. In this fifth part of the One-Hour Guide to SEO, Rand covers essential technical topics from crawlability to internal link structure to subfolders and far more. Watch on for a firmer grasp of technical SEO fundamentals!
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Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome back to our special One-Hour Guide to SEO Whiteboard Friday series. This is Part V - Technical SEO. I want to be totally upfront. Technical SEO is a vast and deep discipline like any of the things we've been talking about in this One-Hour Guide.
There is no way in the next 10 minutes that I can give you everything that you'll ever need to know about technical SEO, but we can cover many of the big, important, structural fundamentals. So that's what we're going to tackle today. You will come out of this having at least a good idea of what you need to be thinking about, and then you can go explore more resources from Moz and many other wonderful websites in the SEO world that can help you along these paths.
1. Every page on the website is unique & uniquely valuable
First off, every page on a website should be two things — unique, unique from all the other pages on that website, and uniquely valuable, meaning it provides some value that a user, a searcher would actually desire and want. Sometimes the degree to which it's uniquely valuable may not be enough, and we'll need to do some intelligent things.
So, for example, if we've got a