Definition
Optimizing the technical aspects of your website (site speed, indexing, crawlability) to help search engines understand and rank it. It's the unglamorous foundation that everyone ignores until their traffic mysteriously tanks.
Example Usage
Our site speed improved from 4 seconds to 2 seconds after fixing technical SEO issues, and our rankings jumped within three weeks.
Origin
Search engine optimization discipline, evolved with algorithm sophistication
Fun Fact
Google announced that Core Web Vitals (page speed, responsiveness, visual stability) are ranking factors, making technical SEO finally visible to non-technical stakeholders.
Source: SEO and web performance best practices
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