I run a small bilingual tutoring site, Intellix Tutoring . It is static HTML built with Jekyll on GitHub Pages: 68 pages, half in English and half in Italian, on a domain registered at the end of May.

This week, I went through Google Search Console and a third-party SEO audit, which between them reported dozens of problems. Almost none of them needed fixing. One "fix" would have made things worse, and the only real issue took a one-line regex.

Here are the five, and how I checked each one.

1. "Page with redirect: Validation failed"

Search Console listed four URLs under "Page with redirect", and the validation I had started in September said Failed :

http://www.intellixtutoring.com/ http://intellixtutoring.com/ https://www.intellixtutoring.com/ https://intellixtutoring.com/it

First check: does each one go straight to the final URL?

for u in http://www.intellixtutoring.com/ http://intellixtutoring.com/ \ https://www.intellixtutoring.com/ https://intellixtutoring.com/it; do echo "== $u" curl -sIL "$u" |…