•   Introduction
•   How does the Internet Work?
•   What do Web Servers Do?
•   How does a Domain Name Becomes a Website
•   A Patchy Server
•   Get Shit Done on the Server
•   What is the Shell?
•   Shell Navigation
•   Looking Around
•   A Guided Tour
•   Manipulating Files
•   Working with Commands
•   Input and Output Redirection
•   Expansion
•   Permissions
•   Job Control
•   Grep that data baby!
•   Shell Script
•   Poxy Proxies!
•   Virtual Private Network?
•   HTTP Status Codes for Beginners
•   When is A, a link?
•   From Little Papers, Google sized Companies Grow...
•   Hubs and Spokes
•   Are you a Reasonable Surfer?
•   Hilltop
•   URL Rewriting for Beginners
•   URL Redirecting Basics
•   Robots.txt
•   Canonicalization Best Practices
•   Advanced Googling
•   advanced_googling_cheatsheet_op_ref.pdf
•   What is a GTLD versus a CCTLD versus a NTLD or even an IDN?

Assignments

•   Build a Website
•   Mobile Compatability
•   Link Building
•   Speed, Speed, Speed
•   On Page Optimisation
•   Do You Rank?
•   Analyse Raw Log files (error and access) for your website
•   Data Storage
•   Shell Script - Bot Verification
•   Build a Search Engine
•   Data Extraction and Presentation
•   Technical SEO Presentation
•   Technical SEO

Are Links Just Tags?

Are links just a tags?

Yes and no.
A link can be many things from a tech SEO perspective we only care about them if Google can understand them.

• A link can be a plain text piece of html
• A data uri - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
• included within JavaScript
• A simple mention?
• delivered via a redirect? How about a meta redirect?
• Just in the headers?
• Within a CANVAS element?
• Within an SVG?
• In a PDF?