A recent Google SEO Office Hours featured a question about whether a security header conferred a ranking influence. It’s not as far out a question as it first appears because a security header like the HSTS header plays an important role in assuring a secure HTTPS connection and HTTPS is a light-weight Google ranking signal. … Read more
Google’s John Mueller suggests placing JavaScript code below the HTML header tag to ensure search crawlers can fully understand your website. Mueller shares this advice in a Reddit thread, where a user asks whether HTML code placement could cause SEO issues. The answer is yes; the placement of HTML code could adversely impact your SEO … Read more
Security headers are easily overlooked in website audits. While some may say that website security is not an SEO-related concern, it does become SEO-related when a site becomes hacked and search traffic dwindles to zero. Security headers should be a top concern of everyone who publishes anything on the Internet. The good news is that … Read more
