Raw HTML vs Rendered: A Quick Check of What Crawlers Actually Read on Your Homepage
Owners often ask why a search engine or an AI assistant describes their business strangely, or not at all. One common, boring cause: the words on th…
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My first web project: 95 pages, 49 indexed, 0 visitors. What would you do (for free)?
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HTTP 304 and SEO: Check the Validator When a Page Changes
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A reader question sent us down a rabbit hole worth sharing: when agencies write their own "top agencies in the UK" listicles — which, as we found ea…
CrUX Now Counts SPA Soft Navigations. 5 Things I'd Check Before Search Console Switches
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How to Compare More Than 5 Keywords in Google Trends on One 0-100 Scale
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Every navigation bar is an argument about what matters. Most of them are made by accident. I worked on a site where one section — a genuinely useful…
I built a forex-education site with zero frameworks — here's 5 weeks of real SEO data
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Adding JSON‑LD Structured Data to My Small‑Business Site: A Hands‑On Walkthrough
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How to track your brand in Google AI Mode
Google AI Mode is a separate tab in Google Search that answers questions in a conversation. It writes a long answer, links sources, and lets the use…
How to Use Bing’s AI Citation Reports to Find Content Gaps
Imagine maintaining documentation for a webhook API. Your quick-start guide covers authentication, payloads, and a successful request. It looks comp…
The Unglamorous Maintenance Work That Keeps a Site Indexed
Nobody writes launch posts about maintenance. But in our experience running a production site, the work that protects your search visibility is most…
A pytrends alternative in 2026: Google Trends data in Python without 429 errors
For years, pytrends was the default way to get Google Trends data in Python. Today its GitHub repository is archived (read-only), and its last relea…
카테고리형 사이트의 색인과 크롤링 구조를 다시 설계한 이유
페이지를 만들었다고 자동으로 색인되는 건 아니었습니다 카테고리형 웹사이트를 운영하면서 처음에는 페이지를 만들고 사이트맵에 넣으면 검색엔진이 자연스럽게 크롤링하고 색인할 거라고 생각했습니다. 실제로는 그렇지 않았습니다. 페이지는 정상적으로 열리고 내부 링크도 존재했지…
A bilingual site needs a route model, not just a language switch
A language switch changes what a visitor sees. A route model decides what a visitor can share, where navigation leads and which language is present…
Website Redesign: 7 Signs Your Business Website Needs a Refresh
A website redesign is one of the best investments a growing business can make, but knowing when the time has come is not always easy. Your website m…
Pineprompt AI search visibility benchmark 2026
Pineprompt analyzed 18,792 responses to 200 non-branded buyer prompts across 10 categories, run daily on seven AI search engines from September 30 t…
Your rebuild will drop URLs. Google will tell you in six weeks.
A rebuild changes how pages are made. The old addresses stop existing without anyone deciding they should, and Google notices before you do. Here is…
Running a 56,000-game browser portal: what breaks at scale (and what doesn't)
I run Gameziko, a free browser-games portal with more than 56,000 HTML5 games — no downloads, no sign-ups, just click and play. People hear "56,000…
We published that Google never recorded our only sale. Google had recorded it — we read the window too early.
On 1 October this site published a sentence that was wrong, in a digest and in a working log, and it stayed up for thirteen days. This is the correc…
Technical SEO for Developers: From URL Architecture to Rendering and Indexing
A sitemap points to one URL. The page declares another as canonical. Internal links keep reinforcing a third version. You can change the SEO plugin…
Our comparison pages have a required field for where the competitor wins, and 13 of 49 rows say it is them
Notifio is a £20 desktop app that watches rental search pages and alerts you when a new listing appears. It competes with several subscription servi…
How to Discover New Websites That Are Quietly Exploding
How to Discover New Websites That Are Quietly Exploding Every "best new websites of 2026" listicle has the same problem: by the time a site makes th…
Google Trends for 100 keywords without failed runs: a pipeline for SEO and e-commerce teams
If you run SEO or an online shop, you probably check Google Trends for a list of keywords every week: which products are rising, which queries are a…
Finding the 302 Hiding in Your Redirect Chain, With curl
A redirect chain is a redirect that points at another redirect. Browsers follow the whole sequence without showing it, so a chain can sit on a site…
How to check a sitemap for broken links (with a short Python script)
Your XML sitemap is a list of pages you want search engines to crawl. If it contains pages that no longer exist, pages that redirect, or pages you h…
The word influencer is allowed in nine fields and banned in the body, and one test knows which is which
Nobody who sponsors creators calls them creators when they go looking. They type "influencer". The people being sponsored, in my experience of readi…
How I Took ~1,000 Pages From Hundreds of Rich Results Warnings to Zero
The DJ Calendar has about 1,000 pages of structured data: artist pages, tour dates, venues and FAQs. For a while, Google flagged hundreds of Rich Re…