Winning the search engine optimization (SEO) game in the age of “Penguin,” “Panda,” “Hummingbird,” and other major Google algorithm entails publishing high-quality content that gets links. However, no amount of high-quality content can assist your site’s search rankings if it has structural or other technical issues. We polled the SEO community to find out what the most prevalent technical issues are nowadays that can hurt your site’s search rankings. Many of these technical issues, such as duplicate content, have existed for quite some time. However, as the SEO game matures and evolves, it’s becoming increasingly necessary to clean out site clutter. After all, successful SEO includes one-third on-page optimization, one-third off-page optimization (such as backlinks), and one third clean, error-free website structure. Technical SEO is the part of the process that takes place behind the scenes. It goes on the finer points of SEO, such as crawling, indexing, site structure, migrations,...
