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Articles about technical SEO, content strategy, analytics and development from the trenches.
HTML5 semantic tags: complete guide with examples
How semantic HTML clarifies page structure for people and machines, where it improves accessibility, and why it is not a ranking shortcut.
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SEO checklist for a website: 80+ items to audit
A practical SEO audit checklist for crawlability, indexing, content and measurement, with evidence to retain before changing a site.
On-page SEO: a complete guide to page optimisation
How to improve content, headings, links and metadata as a coherent system rather than a checklist of isolated ranking tricks.
Content audit: methodology and step-by-step process
How to inventory pages, choose keep, update, consolidate or remove, and turn crawl, search and analytics evidence into a content plan.
URL structure: principles of SEO-friendly URLs
How to design stable, crawlable URLs, normalise variants and manage changes as migrations instead of assuming a keyword-rich slug will rank.
Featured snippets: how to rank in position zero
How featured snippets work, which page formats can answer a query clearly, and why eligibility never guarantees a SERP placement.
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Image SEO: alt text, formats, compression, and lazy load
How image files, alt text, responsive markup and performance work together so images remain useful and discoverable to search.
Keyword cannibalization: how to find and fix it
How to detect pages competing for the same query, decide whether to differentiate, consolidate or redirect them, and measure the result.
Open Graph and Twitter Cards: complete guide
How Open Graph metadata controls link previews, how it differs from Google snippets, and how to validate titles, images and descriptions.
HTML heading structure H1–H6: complete guide for SEO
H1–H6 is the semantic hierarchy of a document, not just font size. How to build the right heading structure for SEO, readability and accessibility.
Meta Description: what it is and how to write it
What meta description is, how it affects CTR in search results, how to add the tag in HTML and popular CMS platforms — with templates and examples.
Canonical URL: what it is and how to configure it
What rel canonical is, why search engines need it, and how to add the canonical tag in HTML, HTTP headers, and popular CMS platforms.
H1 tag: how to write it right — complete guide
How to use one clear H1 to identify a page’s main topic, avoid template conflicts and keep it consistent with visible content.
Title tag: complete guide
How Google creates title links, how to spot duplicates, and how to write clear page titles without promising a CTR uplift.