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Font Subsetting for Web Performance: 4 Tools to Reduce Font File Size and Improve LCP
In web development, every millisecond on the critical path matters. Typography is part of your visual identity, yet a single self-hosted family can ad…
From Reactive to Proactive: How Smart Alerts Change Performance Monitoring
An account manager forwarded us a Search Console screenshot at 4:47 p.m. on a Friday. LCP on the homepage had been in the red for eleven days. Enginee…
Google changed the way it crawls our site - and exposed several Azure Front Door misconfigurations
Originally published at https://rnye.tech Hi all, today's post details an interesting problem that faced a website thanks to undocumented Google crawl…
From SEO to SEO + AEO + GEO — Web marketing as Context Ops in the AI search era
📌 The full version (with 4 SVG figures and a related-article network) lives on my blog: 👉 https://okikusan-public.dev/seo-aeo-geo-context-ops.en This …
How I Built 15 SEO Tool Sites Solo: My GEO Content Factory SOP
I started building English tool sites in early 2026. The goal was simple: build sites that get indexed by both Google AND AI Overviews, with minimum c…
How I Built a Free Backlink Intelligence Tool on Common Crawl + DuckDB
The problem Backlink data is a $1.5B/year SaaS category. Ahrefs is $129/month, SEMrush is $140/month, Moz is $99/month. As an indie I needed competito…
I Tested 7 SERP APIs in 2026 — Here's Who's Overpriced and Who's Actually Worth It
The search results data market is booming, but most APIs are still charging enterprise prices for what should be a commodity.** If you've ever built a…
TRM Grew ChatGPT Referrals 8,337% in 90 Days. I Copied Their 4 LLMO Pillars Onto 3 Indie Sites. Only 1 Moved the Needle.
When a US SEO agency called The Rank Masters published their 90-day case study showing an 8,337% lift in ChatGPT referrals , the headline did exactly …
GEO for e-commerce: how I optimized a product page to appear in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity answers
A step-by-step case study with before/after measurements Reading time: 20 min Last updated: February 2026 You invest time and money in SEO for your Pr…
A Developer's Must-Read for 2026: SERP API Industry Trends & A Practical Selection Guide
In today's landscape where AI applications (especially RAG architectures and AI Agents) are exploding, getting real-time, accurate web search data has…
I Cloned My Dog-Name Site to Build a Cat-Name Site. The Routing Layer Bit Back.
I run a dog-name site. A few weeks ago a reader emailed asking the obvious question: "Do you have one for cats?" I didn't. But I had a fully built PHP…
I Vibe-Coded a Stock Screener Into Production. Then My 2GB Server OOMed and Google De-Indexed Me.
Series intro. I'm a non-CS solo dev who built and shipped a production stock screener almost entirely by "vibe coding" with an AI agent. The site work…
Building an indexable verification page for a freshly-launched small business
Building an indexable verification page for a freshly-launched small business site When a small business launches a new website, Google treats it as u…
FinancialService schema for a real merchant services brokerage: a case study
FinancialService schema for a real merchant services brokerage: a case study Schema.org gives you FinancialService as a type. Most sites that use it s…
How I Built a Programmatic SEO Site with 16,750 Pages Using FastAPI and PostgreSQL
A deep dive into building BSBFinder.com — a free Australian BSB number lookup tool — from data pipeline to deployment. Every Australian bank transfer …
Building a Printable Library with Next.js and Cloudflare: Practical Notes
I have been working on Funboxie , a small library of printable coloring pages, worksheets, templates, and kids' activities. It sounds like a simple co…
What is AEO? How to Get ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Search Engines to Cite Your Website — 2026 Guide
Your Website Is Invisible to AI Open ChatGPT. Ask it: "What's a good Threads automation tool?" It gives you an answer. But whose website does it cite?…
How I Built an AI News Brief with Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, and GPT-4o-mini
Over the past few months, I have been building a small AI news brief called DeepSignal . The idea started from a simple personal frustration: I was re…
Building an agent-ready website: how to make your site readable for ChatGPT, Perplexity and autonomous agents
A couple of months ago I was on a Zoom call with the founder of FollowNow.io , a social-growth platform we'd just been hired to rebuild. We covered th…
Framework: Link Building
Framework: Link Building Earned Backlinks, Digital PR Coordination, Resource Page Outreach, Anchor Text Discipline, Toxic Link Audit, AI Crawler Visib…
Topical Authority Architecture
Originally published at thatdevpro.com . This framework reference is part of the 14-tier Engine Optimization stack from ThatDevPro , an SDVOSB-certifi…
TIL a PowerPoint file is just a zip — so I converted .pptx to Word entirely in the browser
Most file converters upload your files to a server. I wanted to see how far I could get without one. Turns out: all the way. The trick is that Office …
The Multilingual SEO Trap: When Your Meta Description Speaks the Wrong Language
If you run a store that targets more than one country, here is a small bug that quietly costs you clicks: a category page written in one language, wit…
Your Vercel Redirect Is Backwards and Google Is Ignoring Your Site
A week after launching this blog I had one page indexed — the homepage. Every post showed "URL is unknown to Google." No crawl attempts, no impression…
Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS): the page experience playbook
Originally published at thatdevpro.com . Part of ThatDevPro's open SEO + AI framework library. ThatDevPro is an SDVOSB-certified veteran-owned web + A…
How LLMs Decide Which Brands to Mention: A Technical Look at GEO
When you ask ChatGPT "what's a good project management tool?", it doesn't randomly pick Asana or Linear. There's a pipeline behind every brand mention…
Building an AI Vedic Astrology App in 25 Days — What Actually Worked (and What Didn't)
25 days ago I had an idea. Today KundliAI is live, indexed by Google, and getting organic traffic. Here's the honest story — no fluff. The Idea India …
I've audited dozens of estate agency websites. The same 5 problems show up every single time.
Estate agency websites sit in an interesting category from a technical standpoint — high commercial intent traffic, predominantly mobile, long decisio…
Why Google Can't See Your React Breadcrumbs (And the 4-Line Fix)
I wasted an entire afternoon wondering why Google Search Console kept showing zero rich results for my React app. The breadcrumbs looked perfect in th…