Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Keyword research
- Target customer profile
- The purchase decision process
- The conversion funnel
- The customer journey
- SERP functionalities and result formats
- What is Keyword Research: areas of greatest influence
- Keyword identification and selection
- The importance of content marketing to meet all defined visibility objectives
- Map of visibility objectives
Chapter 2. Benchmarking and SEO strategic plan
- Gap analysis, identification of problems and opportunities for improvement
- SEO levers: indexability, content, architecture, authority.
- Strategic positioning plan
Chapter 3. Information architecture
- Navigation and internal linking systems
- Taxonomies, folksonomies and content hierarchies
- Information architecture in large websites
Chapter 4. Indexing control
- Tracking control
- Server log analysis
- Indexing control
- Types of redirections
- Crawl-budget optimization
- Render-budget and JavaScript indexing problems
- Difference between link and button
- Non-indexable technologies
Chapter 5. Structured data
- What are they for?
- Characteristics of the data model
- Applying the data model to a specific situation
- HTML semantic tags with equivalent structured data
- Common errors
Chapter 6. Technical basis for web performance optimization
- Importance of WPO
- Communication between client and web server
- Cache types, CDN’s and proxies
- Internal operation of the browser
- HTTP protocol versions
- Core Web Vitals and other metrics
- Measurement and monitoring tools
- Analysis tools
Chapter 7. WPO in depth
- HTTP: header parameters
- Critical and non-critical CSS
- Source optimization
- Image optimization
- Optimal use of videos
- Optimize animations
- Improve JavaScript download
- Avoid CLS due to JavaScript
Chapter 8. Advanced optimization techniques
- Optimizing FID and INP metrics
- Database
- Server code optimization
- SPAs, PWAs and the PRPL pattern
- Caching with Service Workers
- Optimize AMP pages
- Anti-patterns and obsolete techniques
Chapter 9. International SEO
- Deployment options
- Content customization
- hreflang markup and geo-targeting of content: scenarios
Chapter 10. Data integration, analysis and visualization
- KPIs
- Looker Studio
- Interpretation and presentation
Alphabetical index
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