Technical Writing Blog

Imagine that you are looking for reliable information in a trusty search engine. You type in your query and hit enter, expecting a treasure trove of knowledge to appear before your eyes. Instead, what you see is a digital wasteland littered with misinformation, outdated sources, and irrelevant clickbait. This blog will help you tailor your…

Broken links are one of the reasons why SEO optimization may not be effective, leading to a website having a low ranking in search results. Links play a crucial role in SEO optimization as they aid search engines in understanding the relevance and authority of a website. Links from relevant websites and content are important…

It’s not enough just to write helpful content. Since people use search engines to find information, every website owner should know how search algorithms work. Otherwise, all your great articles can be lost somewhere on the Internet. This blog will explain how to optimize your posts to improve SEO rankings. What Is SEO? Search engine…

What are the SEO peculiarities of online technical content creation? Of course, if you write password-protected user manuals covering sensitive information, SEO is the last thing you’ll care about. But what if you write public user manuals and knowledge bases, and your aim is to make them available to as many people as possible? Right,…

Things like DevOps and Agile create more opportunities for cross-team collaboration. And, that’s what is required of any business now – smoother seamless product delivery. Technical writers are a huge part of this puzzle, and, finally, some real merge is happening due to technical documentation being available online. The same rules apply to online docs…

It’s not a secret for anyone that mobile Internet can be quite slow. The page loading speed is very important for mobile-oriented pages. And it’s not a secret either that Google is using the site speed as a SEO factor. Also, it is well-known that people tend to leave a web site if it does…

Typically, each web site has directories and pages that should not be indexed by search engines. For example, printed versions of web site pages, pages of the security system (registration, authentication). There may also be directories like administrator resources folder, various technical folders. In addition, webmasters may want to give additional information about indexing to…

The order of words in a text is used by search engines in ranking. It is a known fact, which should be paid attention to. First of all, the beginning of text is very important for search engines. Therefore, this part of any text must contain keywords and basic information about the content.

When readers are browsing online documentation, they click cross-topic links a lot, and use the Table of Contents navigation quite often. With these use cases, if the entire page re-loads on every navigation, this may harm the documentation usability. To improve online documentation responsiveness, technical writers often use AJAX navigation. The idea is simple –…

This is a continuation of a blog post series on the SEO aspect of technical writing. And now we want to talk briefly about Google Analytics – the powerful and free statistical tool by Google.