Is Page Depth A Ranking Factor? | Botify

Diagram showing subdomain cannibalisation, where news, sports and www hosts of one brand all rank for the same query at positions 6, 11 and 18, next to a consolidated version where a single owner URL ranks at position 3 after the other hosts are retargeted or redirected.

Your subdomain strategy could be seriously harming your SEO

A series of case studies that show the real-world danger of using subdomains.
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Diagram of faceted navigation crawl control: URL explosion, crawl drain, control rules and selective indexing.

Unleash your faceted navigation

A case study showing how optimising facet navigation can help boost your SEO traffic
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Three step diagram showing how a large site tests internal link changes by ranking pages by traffic, splitting them into control and variant buckets, and measuring the organic lift for statistical significance.

How Pinterest runs Traffic-based Interlinking experiments for SEO

Article that outlines the lessons learned from the Pinterest growth team internal link experiments
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Diagram of six lesser known SEO levers including log file mining, internal link equity, entity consistency, and crawl efficiency.

Esoteric SEO Tips I Hope You Don't Already Know

A talk by Oliver Mason identifies SEO tricks to do some very edge-case SEO things.
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Diagram comparing ecommerce pagination methods and how numbered links, load more, infinite scroll, and canonical choices affect crawling.

State of Pagination in eCommerce: Case Study & Analysis of the Top 150 UK Fashion Retailers

A case study and analysis of pagination within the top 150 UK fashion retailers
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Diagram of an SEO split test for internal linking, showing control and variant page groups and a cumulative sessions chart where the variant line rises above the no change forecast band.

SEO Split-Testing Lessons from SearchPilot: Increasing Internal Linking

A case study that shows the impact of adding cross-linking between lvl 2 and 3 category…
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