I Analyzed 1,000 Keywords with Python to See How AI Overviews Relate to Google Rankings
Recently, I conducted a research project on the relationship between Google AI Overviews and organic search rankings, and published the findings on…
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What an engineering team actually ships so an LLM will cite the brand
Start with a test that takes ten seconds and settles most arguments in the room: curl -sI -A "GPTBot" https://example.com/ | head -n 1 On 7 August 2…
A Practical Core Web Vitals Checklist for Service Business Websites
Service websites often look simple but load like large applications. A hero video, several font files, tracking scripts, chat widgets, sliders, maps…
From 0 to Google's First Page: How We Scaled Our Web Traffic +266% in One Week 🚀
In software engineering and digital product development, we often get so focused on code quality, architecture, and best practices that we forget a…
I scored 100 businesses on whether AI actually recommends them. Big brands are losing to indies.
Classic SEO measures whether you rank on Google. But AI answers are quietly eating the ten blue links, and that raises a different question with dif…
When LCP Moves and Nobody Deployed: Browser Release Cadence and Your 28-Day Field Window
Field Largest Contentful Paint in PageSpeed Insights can move while your release calendar stays empty. Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) data is…
Is PageSpeed Insights a good reference for web page structure/performance?
PageSpeed Insights (PSI) answers a narrow question well and a broad one poorly. It is a good reference for how a URL performs under a controlled lab…
Building localized landing pages in Laravel: hreflang, pricing, and Product JSON-LD
International SEO looks simple until a product needs different language variants, currencies, payment providers, policies, and structured data for e…
I Ran a Real SEO Audit On My Own Live Site — Here's a Free SEO Audit Report Sample
I Ran a Real SEO Audit On My Own Live Site — Here's a Free SEO Audit Report Sample Four days ago, my site was invisible to Google. Not slow. Not pen…
Why Developers Should Care About SEO Before Launching a Website
I have worked in digital marketing for more than 16 years, and one thing I have learned is that many SEO problems are created before an SEO speciali…
Are websites still relevant today for the average person?
The average person does not wake up choosing between "website" and "no website." They choose between opening an app, asking ChatGPT, tapping a map r…
How I Optimize a Browser Gaming Website for Performance
Running a browser gaming platform comes with a different set of performance challenges compared with a traditional content website. On BunaGames , i…
How I Built an SEO-Optimized Portfolio with Next.js 16
A practical walkthrough of how I built this very portfolio — covering Static Site Generation, JSON-LD structured data, Open Graph images, and a 68-k…
How I Organized a WordPress Content Website for Better Readability and User Experience
How I Organized a WordPress Content Website for Better Readability and User Experience Building a content-heavy WordPress website is not only about…
I built a zero-dependency CLI to audit hreflang (international SEO)
If your site serves multiple languages, hreflang is where SEO quietly breaks: page A links B, B never links back; someone writes en_US instead of en…
Barcode Workflows: Choosing Between Manual, Spreadsheet, and Online Tooling
Most engineering teams hit barcode generation the same way: someone in operations asks for a hundred labels by Friday, the requested symbology is wr…
A Few Tips for Improving Your SEO
Over the years I’ve been tinkering with my blog, I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking into SEO. Just to understand why some pages rank high on Goo…
Clicks Rose 73%. I Shut the Site Down.
In June I fixed a real problem on a small editorial site I run. The site was a client-side app — the kind where the server sends a nearly empty HTML…
Green and Blind: When a Passing Check Means Nothing
I wrote a commit message that says SEO.tsx "sets documentElement.lang" and "emits hreflang links". I opened a Spanish post in the browser, looked at…
5 AI Infrastructure Layers That Decide Whether Your Shopify Store Gets Cited in 2026
"AI infrastructure" usually gets framed as a compute-and-model conversation which provider, which model, how much it costs to run. For a Shopify sto…
'Does ChatGPT Mention My Brand?' Is Three Different Questions
Originally published on the Merlonix blog . A growing share of buyers no longer type a query into Google and scan ten blue links. They ask ChatGPT,…
AI Slop Is Becoming a Search Infrastructure Problem
LinkedIn recently added a “Seems like AI slop” option to the menu attached to each post. According to the company’s chief product officer, users sel…
Generating 50+ SEO Landing Pages from a Static Site Build Script
I run TextTimeTools , a free site with speaking-time and reading-time calculators. It's a pure static site deployed to Cloudflare Pages — no backend…
Three Cloudflare defaults that silently broke my static site on launch day
I shipped a static Astro site to Cloudflare Pages this week. Build was green, every local check passed, the custom domain resolved. Three things wer…
Google indexed 428 of my 1,432 generated pages and none of my 2,290 handwritten ones
I spent yesterday planning to delete the best part of my site. I run a calculators-and-tools site, solo, five months old. About 5,800 pages across f…
One Knowledge Base, Four Surfaces: Pages, Graph, Search Index, and MCP
Originally published on michael-kaminski.io . The Genome of Games publishes the same 1,180 records four different ways, and one command writes all f…
INP Bukan Masalah Hosting: Cara Mengaudit dan Menjinakkan Script Pihak Ketiga di Situs Bisnis
Setiap kali skor Core Web Vitals memerah, percakapan di ruang rapat hampir selalu berbelok ke arah yang sama. Ganti hosting. Naikkan RAM. Pindah ke…
How to Find Which WordPress Plugin Actually Generated a Canonical Tag
Two canonical tags on the same page. WordPress settings look correct. So why is the live HTML different? If you manage WordPress sites for clients,…
What 166K Clicks Taught Me About Using AI for SEO
Over three months, my static website generated 166K Google clicks from 1.39M impressions , with an 11.9% CTR and 7.5 average position . The graph al…
Search Console found one 502. All 11 locales were broken, and no test could have caught it.
Search Console showed one URL in the "Server error (5xx)" bucket. One. On a site with about 1,700 pages, that reads like noise, and I nearly left it…