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`Most developers treat sitemaps as a "set it and forget it" thing. Generate once, submit to Google,...

The Problem We Were Actually Solving It started with a single Slack alert on a Tuesday at 3:47 PM....

Deep dive into index bloat - a critical SEO challenge affecting medium to large websites. Learn how to identify URLs consuming your index quota without delivering traffic, understand the difference between crawl budget and index bloat, and discover…

A static site I maintain had three URLs for the same intent per city: /balma/,...

Google is testing short URLs with @handles for the Google Discover publisher profile pages. Instead of those long URLs that go on forever, Google is testing a format that uses the publisher's handle.

Multi-tenant applications can now generate unique preview URLs for each tenant and encode metadata and routing context directly into the URL

Click URLs directly in build logs to navigate to internal and external resources instantly. No more manual copying and pasting required.

How I built a 6-hourly worker that submits sitemap diffs from 30 sites to IndexNow and Google Indexing API. Real code, real numbers, lessons from production.

Three APIs, three different jobs. Learn when to use Scrape, Crawl, or Map so you stop over-engineering simple tasks and under-engineering complex ones.

Understanding how Googlebot is spending its time on your site requires more than a gut check. You...

"Audit my site" almost never means one URL. It means the homepage, the pricing page, the top twenty...

From Dev.to - tutorial: How I Got 98 Pages Indexed by Google in 24 Hours (Without Waiting for Crawlers)

Redirects are easy to ignore until a launch goes wrong. A page may look fine in the browser, but the...

This post is a continuation of a microservice I've been building. You can check out my last post in...

From Dev.to - javascript: Image Harvest v1.0.2: Internationalization, Free Pro Trial & Quality-of-Life Improvements

Every resource on the web has a URL. How that URL is constructed affects caching, routing, SEO, and...

How 3 Astro + Cloudflare Pages sites spent 15 days with 404 sitemaps, why @astrojs/sitemap does this, and the two-line _redirects fix.

On assetvs.com we run a programmatic SEO site comparing investment returns across 16 countries and 5...

TL;DR: A 30-line Python script that does HEAD requests on every LIVE asset URL, verifies HTTP 200,...

Ever had to manually ping 50+ APIs every day to check if they're up? I did. It's a nightmare of...