SEO documentation

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Online directory listings

An online directory listing is an entry for a business on a third-party website that catalogues businesses with the typical details: name, address, phone number, website, opening hours, category, and a description. Directories range from giants like [...] Read more

4 min

"Breadcrumb" schema

Breadcrumb schema (BreadcrumbList) defines the navigational hierarchy of a page — the trail showing where it sits within the site structure (e.g. Home › Services › SEO Audits). It helps search engines understand site architecture and replaces the [...] Read more

2 min

"Organic" traffic misattributed as "Direct" in Analytics

One of the most persistent frustrations in SEO and Organic reporting is watching the Direct channel grow with sessions that almost certainly began with a Google search, distorting channel reporting in the process. What "Direct" actually means Direct [...] Read more

5 min

robots.txt

robots.txt is a plain text file that sits at the root of a website and tells web crawlers which parts of the site they are allowed to request. If your domain is example.com, the file lives at example.com/robots.txt — and nowhere else. Crawlers check [...] Read more

4 min

Schema and structured data

Structured data is information added to a webpage in a standardised, machine-readable format so search engines, LLMs, and other AI systems can understand what the page is about — not just the words on it, but what those words mean. "Schema" is the [...] Read more

5 min

"noreferrer" attribute

"noreferrer" is a link attribute value used in an anchor tag () to instruct browsers not to pass the referrer information — the URL of the originating page — to the destination site when a user clicks the link. This means the linked-to site cannot [...] Read more

4 min

Cloudflare, AI Crawlers, and GEO

For years, the web ran on a simple understanding: search engines crawled your content and sent users back to you in return. AI crawlers broke that bargain. Many consume content to generate direct answers, often without sending a visit, a citation, [...] Read more

5 min

Cloudflare for SEO and security

Cloudflare sits between a website's visitors and its origin server, acting as a reverse proxy, CDN, DNS provider, and security layer. Because it intercepts every request before it reaches the server, it touches almost everything that matters to SEO [...] Read more

4 min

Conversion rate optimization (CRO)

Conversion Rate Optimization is the practice of increasing the percentage of visitors who complete a desired action: buying a product, submitting a form, signing up, or any other goal that matters to a business. It sits at the intersection of [...] Read more

5 min

UX optimization (user experience)

User experience (UX) refers to the whole of a person's interaction with a website or system — how easy it is to use, whether it's intuitive, whether there are points of frustration, and how well it facilitates what they came to do. This breadth is [...] Read more

4 min