SEO from Simon Cox

I mostly work on Technical SEO projects but am interested in all aspects of SEO and SEO testing. You will find a lot of my comments and perceived wisdom on Mastodon, Bluesky and at regular webinars.

Posts about SEO from Simon Cox

• Creating a modular approach to json schema in an eleventy website

  on Tue, Oct 28, 2025 ~ Post | SEO | Eleventy
  I wanted a modular and automated way to add json schema to my personal website so built a set of templates and some simple logic to populate the schema.

• What to do with keywords that have dropped out of the rankings

  on Thu, May 1, 2025 ~ Post | SEO
  Losing keyword rankings? Maybe it's not a penalty. Learn why tracking irrelevant terms is a trap—and what to do when your rankings drop.

• Recovery from a Bing de-indexing

  on Mon, Apr 7, 2025 ~ Post | Web | SEO
  My personal site vanished from Bings index and it took quite a while to get it back in - here is what I found and did.

• Marketing URLs - when and how to use them

  on Fri, Feb 7, 2025 ~ Post | SEO | Web
  Discover why URL shorteners like Bitly may not be ideal for SEO and how to implement your own memorable, branded redirects for better marketing results.

• Do invisible characters in your code cause issues with search?

  on Wed, Nov 8, 2023 ~ Post | SEO
  Can hidden HTML characters can impact SEO. I explore how they affect rankings and share ways to identify and remove them.

• GSC Page with redirect issue

  on Wed, Feb 22, 2023 ~ Shorticles | SEO
  Are you getting a GSC alert 'Page with redirect' where you added a redirect?

• Shorts are back

  on Thu, Feb 2, 2023 ~ Shorticles | SEO
  I have decided to bring back my small blog posts that I previously called Shorts.

• Creating a Cloudflare Worker to lazy load images

  on Wed, Aug 28, 2019 ~ Post | SEO
  Workers are available from Cloudflare and Google Chrome has native lazy loading, so I tested both together.

• Pludgebanging words into Google

  on Sun, Jul 28, 2019 ~ Post | SEO
  I was testing out different made up words to see what Google returned because we should all be testing all of the time to ensuer we understand what is going on.

• Using Google Looker Studio to review your http to https migration

  on Wed, Jan 2, 2019 ~ Post | SEO | Featured
  Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS? I used Google Looker Studio to track issues and gain insights for a smooth transition.

• A first look at Safecont content quality analysis SEO tool

  on Thu, Aug 2, 2018 ~ Post | SEO
  Review of a new tool from Data elasticity S.L in Spain that analyses the quality of your websites content.

• rel nofollow suits commerce users of Google

  on Fri, Jan 21, 2005 ~ Shorticles | SEO
  Commercial users of Google have finally been given a way to reduce the amount of Blogs clogging up their search results.

• wma189

  on Tue, May 6, 2003 ~ Shorticles | SEO | Web
  I was getting a lot of traffic due to some spammers