While you design your website keep SEO in mind. If you’re website is already running on the web, you need to improve the technicalities of your site. Slack in technical issues can affect Search Engine Optimization of your site. Here are some tips to improve technical side of your website.

Avoid too much features

Too much features in your site can affect search engine spiders. Adding extra features don’t mean that they will improve your search engine results page or SERPs. In fact it can affect your technical SEO. Google spots that features like Cookies, Session IDs, JavaScript, DHTML, Flash and Frames may affect while spiders crawl to your site.

If-Modified-Since HTTP header

If-Modified-Since HTTP header is a feature that tells Google whether your website content has changed since its last visit. Ensure that your web server supports If-Modified-Since HTTP header feature. It saves bandwidth as well.

Avoid Session IDs

Session ID is a unique number that a server assigns to a user during his web session. Session IDs may cause into incomplete indexing of your site. It would be better to let your site go without Session IDs.

Use Robots.txt

Robots.txt is a file that tells search engine which pages should be reviewed and what should be ignored. Google use Web Robots to index the web content. Robots.txt helps you improve your Search Engine Optimization.

Make your site compatible with different browsers

It is important to check compatibility of your website with different browsers. It may look good in one particular browser, but check out how it appears in different browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera etc.

Website speed optimization

Monitor your website’s load time. It can affect your Search Engine Optimization. The faster your website loads the better ranking it may achieve in Google. Decreased load time will result into customer satisfaction and great user experience. Google suggest WebPagetest, YSlow, Page Speed and WebMaster tools to monitor performance of your website.