SEO

Technical SEO Mistakes Most Small Business Sites Make

Technical foundations have to be right before content or backlinks can do their job — a site can have excellent content and still underperform because of issues invisible to a visitor.

Missing or incorrect canonical tags

Without a canonical tag, duplicate URL variants split ranking signals across versions of the same page instead of consolidating them.

Broken or missing schema markup

Structured data helps search engines understand and display your content richly — its absence is a free visibility opportunity left unused.

Poor crawlability

Pages accidentally blocked in robots.txt, or buried too many clicks deep in site structure, may never get properly indexed at all.

Slow server response time

Distinct from front-end page speed, slow server response affects both user experience and how much of your site search engines can crawl in a given period.

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