#Urls

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

When a small WordPress site stalls in Google Search Console, people usually blame crawl budget or...

Most developers treat Bing as a rounding error. It's a small share of classic search, so "submit the...

Google clarifies why hyphens separate words in URLs better than underscores, while changing existing addresses still calls for a planned URL migration.

Google has made a minor change to its URL structure best practices for Google Search help document. Specifically, the "Use hyphens to separate words" section.…

Google's John Mueller says raw and percent-encoded brackets are different URLs and recommends using one form across links, canonical tags, and sitemaps.

Six registries, one readdirSync and fifteen hand-typed entries build one sitemap. The filesystem group works only because the file is prerendered, and the hand-written lastmod dates are contradicted by the pages they describe.

I sent the same link to three Slack channels last Tuesday and realized I had zero way of knowing...

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/,...

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...