I Built Hundreds of Pages With Templates. Here's Why It Didn't Work
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Who sells the book when the customer asks an AI? Romania's book market across 5 AI engines
When someone asks ChatGPT "which online bookstore should I use for children's books?" , they get one answer , not ten blue links. So we measured who i…
Next.js vs WordPress for SEO: an honest decision guide
Originally published at intentioninfoservice.com . The short version: both Next.js and WordPress can rank at the top of Google. SEO is won by what you…
A 200 Response Does Not Prove an AI Crawler Can Read Your Site
A crawlability check often begins with a comforting result: request the homepage, receive HTTP 200, and declare the site open. That conclusion is too …
How I Built a Free AI Prompt Library With Node.js and PostgreSQL — From Zero to Live in 30 Days
If you have been following my Dev.to articles, you know I built Chatzyo — a real-time video chat platform using WebRTC. That project taught me a lot a…
Half the web already hands you clean product data. You just have to ask.
I once spent an afternoon writing selectors to pull a price off a product page. Wrote the CSS path, handled the currency symbol, dealt with the sale-p…
Building Profitable Niche Lifestyle Stores: A Developer's Guide to E-Commerce Essentials
Building Profitable Niche Lifestyle Stores: A Developer's Guide to E-Commerce Essentials Launching a niche lifestyle e-commerce store is more than jus…
SEO for Developers: Stop Focusing on Keywords and Start Fixing the DOM
Most developer guides on SEO are written by marketers. They tell you to find the right keywords or write better meta descriptions. While that matters …
How to Migrate WordPress to Next.js Without Losing Your SEO
Most “WordPress to Next.js” tutorials show you how to fetch posts from the WP REST API and render them in the App Router. That’s the easy 20%. The 80%…
Everything we got wrong caching a multi-tenant SaaS on one domain
Every page we serve falls into one of four buckets, and they want opposite things from a cache: Marketing pages never change between deploys. Blog art…
Google Trends ties its data tokens to your IP and it broke my scraper in a way I didn't expect
I just shipped a Google Trends scraper as an Apify Actor ( https://apify.com/swiftscrape/google-trends-fast-scraper ), and the most interesting part w…
CMS apps explained: what marketing and product teams actually get
If you're researching CMS apps for your team and finding yourself buried in feature matrices and pricing pages, this is the post to read first. Before…
Engineering for Speed: Lessons from ReBALKAN’s Four-Platform Performance Tests
A multilingual marketplace has a performance problem before it has traffic. Every additional language can introduce new templates, fonts, assets, rout…
You Deleted It. The Crawler Still Sees It.
I removed two listings from a directory site I run. Not for a small reason — they failed the one promise the directory exists to make. The kind of rem…
Building High-Performance Martial Arts E-Commerce Stores: A Developer's Guide
Why Martial Arts Retailers Need Technical Excellence Martial arts equipment stores represent a niche but growing e-commerce segment. From specialty do…
I Built a 44-Page Calculator Site With Next.js ISR — Here's the Architecture That Actually Ranks
Most calculator sites are a graveyard of orphan pages: 50 tools, no structure, everything competing against everything. I rebuilt mine — seecalc.com —…
How to Automate SEO Content Publishing Without Breaking Your Workflow
How to Automate SEO Content Publishing Without Breaking Your Workflow Managing SEO content at scale is one of those problems that looks simple until y…
I built a tool that checks whether ChatGPT recommends your brand (Python + Apify)
Your customers have stopped Googling "best note-taking app." They're asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini instead — and getting back a short list of…
I Built a Developer Tools Website Without a Backend — Here’s Why
How I built CodeKitHub with Astro, static architecture, and SEO-first thinking — without a backend. Most modern web projects usually start with: A dat…
I got tired of paying $139/month for SEO data that costs $4 wholesale, so I built my own
Last year Ahrefs raised prices on small teams by 81% ( SpendHound tracked it ). Semrush Pro sits at $139.95 a month. And here's what those subscriptio…
Your AI Quotas Reset Tonight. What Will You Do With Them?
Evening. My Claude subscription refills its quotas. Most days they evaporate the way everyone's do — autocomplete, small refactors, a summary here and…
AEO Isn't SEO: Why You Should Let Bots Crawl Your Site in 2026
For twenty years, robots.txt existed to keep bandwidth-hungry crawlers off your server. In 2026, for anyone who wants their work to actually be found …
SEO Is Not Dead: Why AI Search Still Depends on Search-Ready Websites
Over the past two years, people have loved saying the same thing: "SEO is dead.. "Everyone asks ChatGPT now. Who still searches on Google?. "AI gives …
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Why It Matters in the Digital Age
As a builder, you've spent weeks, maybe even months designing and developing your website. Every page is polished, the user interface is intuitive, yo…
We ran an AI-agent-readiness scan on 19 AI-native brands. Here is what breaks.
If any group of companies should have their site ready for AI agents in 2026, it is the ones building AI. So we ran a real scan on 19 of them: Anthrop…
Why I’m Thinking of Switching My Portfolio to Astro.js ..
Why I'm Thinking of Switching My Portfolio to Astro.js Lately I have been spending most of my time building auditing dashboards. Working on data-highl…
How I Built a 6,000-Game Web Portal with Next.js 14 (and Kept Hosting Nearly Free)
I recently launched OYNAVA , a free HTML5 game portal with 6,000+ games. Here's the architecture, the cost traps I hit in production, and how I fixed …
How I Optimized My Portfolio Website: Fast Loading, SEO-Friendly, and Easy to Maintain published: true tags: webdev, portfolio, seo, performance
Your portfolio is often the first impression a recruiter, client, or fellow developer gets of you. If it loads slowly, ranks nowhere on Google, or is …
How I Built a Multilingual Prop Firm Comparison Engine with TanStack Start and Programmatic SEO
As a developer and algorithmic trader, I got tired of wading through biased affiliate blogs and outdated Google Sheets just to compare Forex prop firm…
I Generated 7,681 Static Pages From 78 Units of Data — Here's the Architecture
Most unit converter websites are React SPAs with a single page. Google indexes one URL and calls it a day. I wanted to see what happens when you treat…