We've all agreed that technical SEO is integral, and many of us know at least a little bit about the subject if we're not already practitioners. But have you considered that the way you think about technical SEO could be hindering or helping your success? Today, Ben Estes from Distilled shares the agency's tried-and-true framework for tackling technical SEO quandaries strategically.
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Hi. Welcome to another Whiteboard Friday. My name is Ben, and I'm a principal consultant at a company called Distilled. Today I'd like to talk to you about how we think about technical SEO at Distilled. Now, technical SEO is something that a lot of people know a lot of stuff about.
You accumulate knowledge over time from a lot of different sources, and that's where a lot of the value that we deliver comes from. But not everyone can think about technical SEO from a strategic perspective, and that's the skill that I think we should talk more about.
Framing the problem
Let's start by framing the problem. So look at these charts. Now, I would argue that most people's mental model of technical SEO matches this first chart.
So in this chart, the solid black line is the actual traffic that you're getting, whereas the dotted line is the hypothetical traffic you could be getting if all of the technical problems on your site were resolved. So some people see this and say, "Well, you know, if I can just keep fixing technical things, I can keep getting more traffic to my site."
That's one way of looking at it, but I