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From Industrial Fasteners to Digital Innovation: My Journey with SRK Bolt
rs to Digital Innovation: My Journey with SRK Bolt Hello DEV Community! 👋 This is my first post here, and I'm excited to introduce myself, share a l…
Hash Routing and SEO: Give Each Public Answer a Real Route
For SEO, give each distinct public page a URL that works when opened directly. Use a fragment to point to a section within a page, not as the only a…
WordPress to Next.js migration SEO: keep your traffic through the move
If you are planning a WordPress to Next.js migration and your main fear is losing the organic traffic you spent years earning, that fear is reasonab…
robots.txt patterns that let search crawlers in and keep AI training crawlers out (without wrecking indexing)
Every few months this request lands in my inbox: "can we block the AI crawlers but stay in Google?" The answer is yes, and it takes about 20 lines o…
Coding Agent Harnesses Compared for SEO and GEO Work
A coding agent harness is the runtime wrapped around a language model: the loop, tools, permissions, context management and extension points that le…
6 of 40 sites were pointing Google at a sitemap URL that returns HTML
A robots.txt Sitemap line that resolves to 200 is not the same thing as a readable sitemap. I found out the expensive way, on six sites at once, and…
I built SiteScope, a free technical SEO audit tool that ranks what to fix first
For my college course I built SiteScope ( vikramyadav.me ), a free technical SEO audit tool. You enter a site, it crawls every page it can reach, an…
How I Built a GSC Diagnostic Micro-SaaS with Next.js and Vercel in a Weekend
Hey Devs, As an indie hacker, I got tired of manually digging through Google Search Console every week to find "striking distance" keywords (ranking…
GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot vs ChatGPT-User: What to Block (and Keep)
I almost broke my own site's AI discoverability with a copy-paste. Last week I grabbed one of those "block all AI training bots" robots.txt gists, d…
The Google Indexing API: what it's for, its quotas, and a working Python client
Search for "fast Google indexing" and you'll find tutorials telling you to push every new blog post through the Google Indexing API. Google's own do…
ทราฟฟิกจาก ChatGPT หายจาก GA4: บั๊ก UTM สอนอะไรเราเรื่องการวัดผล AI?
ทราฟฟิกจาก ChatGPT หายจาก GA4: บั๊ก UTM สอนอะไรเราเรื่องการวัดผล AI? โดย Nokka (นก-กา) | นักเขียนอิสระสาย AI และระบบเปิด | ตรวจสอบข้อมูล ณ 21 ต.ค. 2…
DeepSeek เปิด Search API ให้ AI แล้วกรอง SEO โกงกับ GEO ปั่นอย่างไร?
DeepSeek เปิด Search API ให้ AI แล้วกรอง SEO โกงกับ GEO ปั่นอย่างไร? โดย Nokka (นก-กา) | นักเขียนอิสระสาย AI และ Content SEO | ตรวจสอบข้อมูล ณ 20 ต.…
Extract every URL from a sitemap.xml in Python (indexes, .gz, robots.txt) and spot competitors' new pages
A site's sitemap is the cheapest full list of its pages you will ever get: the site publishes it for search engines, it usually carries a lastmod da…
Build the engine, not the posts
Update (Oct 2026): CryptoCardCompass now lists 54 cards. Around twenty of our own sites, one person deciding what they say. You can keep writing eve…
Two URL spaces render from one type, and the ternary that tells them apart returns the same thing twice
The long form pages on notifio.app live in two URL spaces. /guides is for someone describing a task, like how fast rental listings go . /for/ is for…
Core Web Vitals in Practice: Fix LCP, INP, and CLS Without Guessing
Core Web Vitals is one of the most searched topics in technical SEO, and one of the most misunderstood. Teams run a Lighthouse test, see a red score…
I built ~2,200 pages with AI agents. The hard part was my own analytics.
I run a small Korean information site (guides on labor rules, taxes, game-store sales) and I let AI agents generate most of the pages. As of 2026-10…
Your zero is not evidence: run the control query
Nine weeks of zero clicks usually means the instrument is broken, not that nobody came. I learned that from the other side this week, and it cost me…
Say no to AI training, not to AI search: robots.txt per bot
This note has an interactive demo. Try it in the original "Block the AI bots" sounds like one switch, but it isn't. Anthropic uses three different c…
카테고리 페이지끼리 검색 의도가 겹칠 때 바꾼 것들
카테고리형 사이트를 운영하다 보면 처음에는 페이지를 세분화하는 게 무조건 좋다고 생각하기 쉽습니다. 저도 처음에는 각 주제별로 페이지를 많이 만들고, 중요한 키워드를 여러 페이지에 반복해서 넣으면 검색 노출에 도움이 될 거라고 생각했습니다. 그런데 실제로 운영하면서…
My SEO Agent Found Good Keywords. That Didn't Mean They Were Good Recommendations.
A keyword can have high search volume, low competition, and still be a bad choice for your website. That's one problem I want to solve when building…
We Ran 8 Texts Through an AI Detector. It Called a Human Wikipedia Paragraph 99% AI.
AI detectors are everywhere now — in classrooms, in hiring, and in freelance contracts that let clients reject work when a tool flags it. The pitch…
How to Optimize Heading Tags for Better Content Structure
Introduction Creating high-quality content is an important part of building a successful website. However, even useful content can become difficult…
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…
Do Not Refresh Declining Content Until You Diagnose the Loss
Do Not Refresh Declining Content Until You Diagnose the Loss A page loses clicks. The instinctive response is to update the introduction, add a few…
My first web project: 95 pages, 49 indexed, 0 visitors. What would you do (for free)?
This is my first web project, so please assume I know nothing. I'm learning in public and I'd love your recommendations. I built a solar savings cal…
SEO Health Basics for Personal Websites and Portfolios
A personal website does a specific job. When a recruiter, client, conference organiser or potential collaborator searches your name, it should come…
HTTP 304 and SEO: Check the Validator When a Page Changes
A 304 response is appropriate when a conditional request shows that the client's stored representation is still valid. When a public page changes, v…
Two Agencies Wrote "Top Agencies" Lists — One Put Itself at #1
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…