AlexHarford-TechSEO

#TechSEO, mentor, & former web dev. UX/accessibility/sustainability.
12+ years' SEO experience & always learning.
Loves outdoors, travel, writes, runs.

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

Is the content you're viewing trustworthy?

I enjoyed discussing how we can interpret content with @seoMindsetPod, with a focus on cognitive biases - shortcuts our brains take to try and make our lives easier.

It's my first podcast chat to go public!

https://t.co/BGKKDWMEui

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

"Inside Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process"
https://t.co/sgqlbuCTtS

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

Autonomous cars suddenly stop mid-traffic...
https://t.co/65OCvGh1w9

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

An over-reliance on technology (not the AI aspect) will be the death/decline of the human race.

Examples from history include Angkor in Cambodia, which had a very advanced hydraulic system for the time.

"What's behind big tech's outages?"
https://t.co/0gPaYOs6oX

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

As if Jaguar Land Rover have been unable to manufacture cars for a month.

Crazy times.

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[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

@AndyBeard @ViperChill @Rhea Same here - I feel I've been fighting a lone battle on the acronym, even seeing experienced SEOs who I have loads of respect for use it without clarification about what a ridiculous acronym is. I don't use Twitter much now though - prefer Bluesky.

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

@AndyBeard @ViperChill @Rhea My biggest issue is I don't think any good SEO would've come up with the term "GEO," at least one who understands disambiguation.

What were your other issues?

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

@jakezward For a second, I thought the below might be a human review...

For every page, we ask two simple questions:
“Would this still be useful if search engines didn’t exist?”
“If someone bookmarked the page and came back later, would it still provide value?”

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

@RyanJones @DavidGQuaid What's the context behind "most sitemaps are completely ignored"?

That's not my experience with Google, even for bad sitemaps and websites of varying scale (up to millions of pages).

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

Server response codes made memorable as bus numbers and their destinations in this tech SEO analogies post from Jaz Hall @Moz:
https://t.co/9Bzi3UJaxZ

[Moz @Moz]

Is Googlebot properly crawling and indexing your website properly? 🤔

If you're running technical SEO audits, relying on standard browser settings isn't enough. Googlebot is stateless, doesn't scroll, and handles JavaScript differently than a standard user.

This popular guide shows you how to turn Chrome or Canary into a dedicated Googlebot emulator in four simple steps!
https://t.co/mBaWlBpGU8

[Sitebulb @sitebulb]

How to Use Chrome to View a Website as Googlebot - via @Moz & @AlexHarfordSEO #seo https://t.co/PMxIBeM5CE

[Nate Hake @natejhake]

@googlesearchc I'd like to report a spammer called "AI Overviews"

It's coming up #1 for a ton of queries & violates all these Google policies:

-No first-hand experience
-Uses extensive automation
-No expertise
-Primarily summarizes what others have written

[Dawn Anderson @dawnieando]

Or just “How can we help our customers?”

[Moz @Moz]

🤯 Technical SEO confusing you? Think of websites like houses, server codes like bus journeys, and canonical tags like the Mona Lisa!

Jasmin Hall has broken down 18 complex SEO concepts into real-life analogies to make them click 🧠 #techseo #learnseo
https://t.co/3K3FlTYsGN

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

I just found this long guide to optimising SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) for SEO, speed, and the critical rendering path I wrote a while ago, before SEO me joined social media: https://t.co/B7DZc3XqAH

Most of it seems relevant. A couple of things here and there I'd update.

[Cyrus SEO @CyrusShepard]

SEO Twitter is great because while 70% don't post here anymore, the other 40% is completely inaccurate

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

Since Google Search changed to JavaScript-rendered, my Chrome browser freezes and crashes more frequently.

Coincidence?

Google Search has the biggest memory footprint of the tabs I have open. But I don't have a pre-JS comparison.

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

@dportney @AlexHarford Thanks! Have you tried NoJS in an incognito session without extensions to rule out those? I haven't used it recently, but I'll test it next week if you're still having problems.

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

@darth_na The former.

Although the latter can be fun depending on the platform - not Quora!

[AlexHarford-TechSEO @AlexHarfordSEO]

@nichepursuits That Stevie Wonder album is brilliant.

I recommend a couple of under-the-radar albums I love from the last 2 years:

Monika Roscher Bigband: Witchy Activities and the Maple Death
Sungaze: Sungaze

And my favourite from the 2010s:
Paul Steel: Carousel Kites