How to Fix Broken Links on Your Website
Find dead links with Search Console and a crawler, decide which 404s matter, and fix them the right way: update, redirect, replace or remove. Plus what Google really says about 404s.
Find dead links with Search Console and a crawler, decide which 404s matter, and fix them the right way: update, redirect, replace or remove. Plus what Google really says about 404s.
Not every free directory is worth your link. Learn the quick checks that separate a useful free directory from a link farm, and how to submit without risk.
Meta tags go in the HTML head; robots rules for PDFs and images go in the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header. Step-by-step code for HTML, .htaccess, NGINX and PHP.
Four ways to see any page's meta tags, from View Source to developer tools and curl, plus which tags Google uses and what to check on your own pages.
Backlinks still matter, but the easy tricks now count as spam. Here are practical, safe ways to earn links to a small website, and the shortcuts to skip.
Large studies agree: AI Overviews cut clicks on informational searches, and being cited softens the blow. Here is what the data says and how to adjust.
GA4 now has an AI Assistant channel, but it only catches visits with a referrer. Here is how to set up a fuller view with a custom channel group and regex.
Google says no special schema is needed for AI Overviews. Here is what structured data still does for you, which types to use, and the mistakes to avoid.
Being cited in an AI Overview is worth more than ranking under one. Here is what makes pages citable, what schema can and cannot do, and how to check.
Ads are the most common cause of layout shift on monetised blogs. Here is how to reserve ad space, lazy load lower slots and keep CLS and INP in the green.
Hub, lists, detail pages: a simple internal linking model for directory and resource-list sites, with rules for breadcrumbs, footers and automatic links.
Google crawled your post but left it out of the index. Here is how a small blog can triage those URLs, improve or merge thin pages and get the keepers indexed.
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