Tame the Bots - Technical SEO & Web Development.
Hi! I'm Dave Smart, I am a technical SEO consultant and developer from Manchester in the United Kingdom. I have been building sites for 25 years. I love working out what makes sites perform how they do in Google and other search engines.
The challenges facing larger-scale sites, e-commerce, and JavaScript framework-based sites are a big focus area for me. JavaScript SEO is rapidly becoming one of the most popular services I offer.
Sometimes sites just don't perform as well as the business behind them. This can be down to how the site presents itself to the search engines. It is important to look at which parts of your site aren't getting crawled and indexed, and which parts are that perhaps shouldn't.
That's where I come in.
I offer technical SEO consulting and can audit your site to make sure it's presenting itself in the best way possible for the search engines. An audit can discover opportunities for you to enable Google, and other search engines to find, and index your content in the best way. It can help chase down specific issues and problems you might be having with your websites too.
I'm happy to work with sites small or large, and directly with site owners or with your agency or developers.
Although I'm based in Manchester, most audits can be done remotely, without the need to visit your premises.
I can help with:
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JavaScript SEO:
Are your pages being rendered? -
Crawling Issues:
Are your pages being found? -
Indexing:
Pages not showing up? -
Canonical / Duplication Issues:
Same or similar content across your site? -
General Site Health
Can't quite put your finger on it? I can take a look!
Other places to get help:
There is a wealth of information and help out there available, a lot of it free! You might like to visit some of these resources before getting in touch.
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Google Search Central Help Forums
The official google help forum for issues with your site in search, where I am a Diamond Product Expert . There's some great advice given, and an amazing gang of other Product Experts and other regular posters, who between them have a formidable range of skills and experience, that even the best agency could only dream of retaining. -
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide
Google's guide to getting started in SEO, full of great advice and information. -
Google Search Essentials
Learn the fundamental things you should do and keep in mind for success in Google search.
Latest blog posts:
- Web Vitals, World Wide. - 7th January 2025
Core Web Vitals can be affected by where your users are, and what language they speak. This article explores how a website's Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) can be impacted by the browser translating the page into another language, and offers potential solutions. - View the Original Version of A Wayback Machine Page - 20th September 2024
View the original, un-rewritten version of a wayback machine page, get the html they saved without the changes to links etc. - Geo-Visualisation of Googlebot Crawling - 5th July 2024
A time-series visualisation of where Google crawled tamethebots.com from.