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title: "Category: SEO"
url: https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/seo/
description: "Entries filed under the SEO category on The Modern Web."
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# Category: SEO

Entries filed under SEO.

## [March 2017](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/03/)

### [Top 5 Technical SEO basics for Web Developers](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/03/top-5-technical-seo-basics-web-developers/)

Search visibility starts with a page a crawler can reach and read. Before anyone argues about keywords, it is worth confirming that the routes you have built are actually linked from somewhere, that robots.txt is not quietly excluding a whole directory, and that the sitemap you generate matches the pages that really exist.

Filed under: [SEO](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/seo/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/03/top-5-technical-seo-basics-web-developers/)

## [February 2017](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/)

### [Essential WordPress plugins for your website](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/essential-wordpress-plugins/)

Plugin recommendations date badly, but the categories do not. A content site generally needs help in four places: search metadata, security hardening, caching and performance, and backups. Everything else is specific to the project.

Filed under: [Resources](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/resources/), [Security](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/security/), [SEO](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/seo/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/), [WordPress](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/wordpress/), [WordPress Plugins](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/essential-wordpress-plugins/)

### [5-minute guide to Structured Data](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/5-minute-guide-to-structured-data/)

A search engine reading a page sees text. It can infer a great deal, but it is inferring. Structured data lets the page state directly that this string is a publication date, that one is an author, and the page as a whole describes an article.

Filed under: [SEO](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/seo/), [Tips](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/tips/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/5-minute-guide-to-structured-data/)

## [January 2017](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/01/)

### [Google Chrome 56 arrives with a warning to non-secure HTTP web pages](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/01/google-chrome-56-arrives-warning-non-secure-http-web-pages/)

The release began marking HTTP pages that collect passwords or card details as not secure, directly in the address bar. Previously the absence of encryption was communicated by the absence of a padlock, which almost nobody notices.

Filed under: [Security](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/security/), [SEO](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/seo/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/01/google-chrome-56-arrives-warning-non-secure-http-web-pages/)