Miami Technical SEO: 11 Things Most Sites Get Wrong

Technical SEO is the foundation. Without it, content and links don\'t rank. Here are the 11 technical issues that turn up most often on Miami small business sites.

The 11 things

1. Missing or broken hreflang. 2. No XML sitemap or stale sitemap. 3. robots.txt blocking important pages. 4. Multiple H1s per page. 5. Missing schema markup. 6. Duplicate content (parameters, www vs non-www). 7. Broken internal links. 8. Slow mobile (Core Web Vitals failing). 9. Mixed content (HTTP on HTTPS pages). 10. Missing canonical tags. 11. Poor URL structure.

Why these matter in Miami specifically

Miami sites with bilingual content + slow load + no hreflang = Google can\'t figure out which language to serve to which user. Result: neither EN nor ES ranks. Fix hreflang and rankings often jump within weeks. Our Miami SEO service includes full technical audits.

Sitemap + Search Console

Dynamic XML sitemap (auto-updates as pages added). Submitted to Google Search Console. Monitor coverage report. Our sitemap example shows how this should look.

HTTPS + redirects

HTTPS everywhere. HTTP → HTTPS 301 redirect. www → non-www (or vice versa) 301 redirect. No redirect chains (3+ hops). Most Miami WP sites have at least one of these broken.

URL structure for SEO

Short, descriptive, hyphenated URLs. Keywords near the front. /miami-restaurant-website-design instead of /post?id=4523. Doesn\'t directly affect rankings but affects CTR.

Frequently asked questions

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