Practical Tech SEO

Accelerating results with SEO A/B Testing & Edge SEO

brightonSEO April 2025

This talk is for experienced SEOs who are passionate about experimentation and strive to prove ROI while minimizing time and resource waste.

SEO is often seen as one of the hardest channels to measure, making it difficult to win over stakeholders. Koen Leemans explains the concept of SEO A/B testing and how it empowers SEOs to find the best answers through controlled experimentation.

By proving SEO ROI and reducing resource waste, this approach ensures only proven optimizations are implemented while enabling teams to test and learn more than they can typically optimize.

Koen also highlights the role of Edge SEO in quickly deploying tested changes, making it an invaluable solution for organizations facing (temporary) capacity constraints.

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Syndicate 1&2, Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton, BN1 2GR, United Kingdom

Thu 10 Apr, 2025 | 09:30 AM

Advanced SEO techniques with .htaccess

brightonSEO April 2025

This talk is aimed at technical SEOs and/or developers who have a basic understanding of web development.


This talk will share advanced use cases of the infamous .htaccess file, for and beyond SEO, in a very practical way.

29% of websites today use Apache webservers. Apache's infamous .htaccess file is quite popular with both SEOs and developers. The use cases for SEO are numerous, including URL redirects, pattern redirects, web performance optimization (such as compression and caching), setting HTTP headers (eg. canonicals, noindex), etc.

Jan noticed over the years that .htaccess files are often used incorrectly or inefficiently. Even worse, some IT teams have a lack of knowledge about what .htaccess can (and can't) do. As a result, sometimes developers needlessly build complex solutions elsewhere in the codebase. This is significant for technical SEO, because the priority of a dev ticket is influenced by its estimated workload. Tickets with high workload (story points) are often placed later ("the next sprint") in the planning. Or, in extreme cases, never planned at all. The aim of this talk is to prevent this from happening.

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Syndicate 1&2, Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton, BN1 2GR, United Kingdom

Thu 10 Apr, 2025 | 09:30 AM