Fix the Technical SEO Problems That Google Hates (And Boost Rankings Fast)
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XML Sitemaps
AI Prompts
XML Sitemap Generation
Purpose: To create a basic XML sitemap file from a list of your website's important URLs.
Prompt Structure:
"Here are my list of important URLs for my site [Enter your Site_URL]. [Enter your list of important URLs or attach a CSV file containing that]. Can you create an XML sitemap based on this important URLs list for me to submit to Google search console?"
Tools & Applications
- Yoast SEO: A WordPress plugin that can automatically generate and update your XML sitemap. yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider: A desktop tool that can crawl your site and generate an XML sitemap (free for up to 500 URLs). screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
- XML-Sitemaps.com: A free online tool for generating sitemaps for smaller websites. xml-sitemaps.com
Robots.txt File
Tools & Applications
- Google Search Console: Use the Robots.txt Report to check for errors and see how Google is interpreting your file. search.google.com/search-console
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider: Can be configured to respect or ignore robots.txt, and can show you which URLs are being blocked. screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
- Online Robots.txt Testers: Third-party tools that can validate your file and simulate how search engines interpret it. Example: technicalseo.com/tools/robots-txt
Canonical Tags
Tools & Applications
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider: Essential for auditing canonical tags across your site to find missing tags, duplicates, and other errors. screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
Internal Linking
Tools & Applications
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider: Use this tool to conduct a full internal link audit, find orphaned pages, identify broken links (404s), and spot redirect chains. screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
URL Structure
Tools & Applications
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider: Audit your URL structure by filtering for issues like URLs that are too long, contain uppercase letters, underscores, parameters, or non-ASCII characters. screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
JavaScript Rendering & SEO
Tools & Applications
- Google Search Console (URL Inspection Tool): Allows you to see the rendered HTML of a page exactly as Google sees it, which is crucial for diagnosing JS rendering issues. search.google.com/search-console
- Chrome DevTools: Built-in browser tools to compare the initial HTML ("View Page Source") with the rendered HTML ("Inspect") to see what content is loaded by JavaScript. (Built into the Google Chrome browser)
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider: Can be configured to render JavaScript during a crawl, allowing you to compare the original and rendered HTML at scale. screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
- WP Rocket: A premium WordPress plugin with features to optimize JavaScript delivery, which can help with rendering issues. wp-rocket.me
- Prerender.io: A dynamic rendering service that serves fully rendered HTML pages to search engine bots, solving JS SEO issues for sites that can't implement server-side rendering. prerender.io
Hreflang Tags
Tools & Applications
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider: The go-to tool for auditing hreflang tags at scale, helping you find common errors like missing return links, incorrect codes, and non-canonical URLs. screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
Structured Data (Schema)
AI Prompts
Structured Data Generation
Purpose: To use AI to create the JSON-LD code for a specific schema type based on your page's details.
Prompt Structure:
"Generate JSON-LD structured data for a [Schema Type, e.g., coffee product] with these details: [Detail 1]: [Value 1], [Detail 2]: [Value 2], [Detail 3]: [Value 3]. I have also attached the documentation for this schema type, so create the structured data with all the required properties. Suggest me If I'm missing any optional properties that can increase my CTR on search results."
Tools & Applications
- Google's Rich Results Test: The official tool to validate your structured data code and see if your page is eligible for rich results in search. search.google.com/test/rich-results
- TechnicalSEO.com Schema Markup Generator: A free and easy-to-use tool to generate JSON-LD code for various schema types without writing code manually. technicalseo.com/tools/schema-markup-generator
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider: Helps you find which pages are missing structured data and identify validation errors across your entire site. screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
- Yoast SEO: A WordPress plugin that helps implement basic schema (like Article, Organization) automatically and allows for more specific schema on certain pages. yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo
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