Our notes on debugging INP on a blog. Read the field data, split a slow tap into its three phases, and find the cause in Chrome DevTools.
What structured data tells search engines about a blog post, which fields matter, and how to add it and test it without breaking anything.
Add your blog to Google Search Console, prove you own it, submit a sitemap and check your pages are indexed, in six short steps.
What the Core Web Vitals measure, the scores that count as good, and the habits that keep a writer's posts fast without help from a developer.
Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools are both free. Here is where each one wins, and which a small blog should set up first.
How to use hreflang to tell search engines which language each version of a post is in, with the tags from our English and German posts.
What XML sitemaps for a blog should list, what to keep out of them, the size limits, and how to point search engines at the file.
Internal linking for blogs: anchor text, clusters, click depth, orphan pages and a full audit, so readers and search engines find every page.
A step-by-step technical SEO audit for small sites. Check crawling, indexing, speed, structure and markup, then rank the fixes by impact and effort.
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