SEO guides

SEO guides for people who actually ship.

In-depth, no-fluff guides on technical SEO, on-page, performance and schema. Written by people who do this work.

Technical SEO

The complete technical SEO checklist for 2026

50 checks Google's crawler actually cares about — what they are, why they matter, and how to fix them.

📖 18 min⭐ All levels
Technical SEO

Canonical tags explained (with real examples)

When to use rel="canonical", when not to, and the four most common mistakes that suppress your pages.

📖 9 min⭐ Intermediate
Technical SEO

robots.txt — the practical guide

What goes in robots.txt, what doesn't, and the one mistake that wipes out a site's index overnight.

📖 11 min⭐ All levels
Technical SEO

XML sitemap best practices

Sitemaps that actually help Google find and index your important pages. Sizing, frequency, lastmod, and split strategies.

📖 12 min⭐ Intermediate
On-page

Writing title tags that rank (and convert)

The 60-character rule is wrong. Here's how Google actually rewrites titles — and how to write ones it keeps.

📖 8 min⭐ Beginner
On-page

Meta descriptions in 2026

Why meta descriptions still matter for CTR, what length to aim for, and the templates that consistently outperform.

📖 7 min⭐ Beginner
On-page

Heading hierarchy: H1, H2, H3 done right

When multiple H1s are fine, when they're not, and how to structure headings that both users and Google parse cleanly.

📖 6 min⭐ Beginner
Performance

Core Web Vitals: the 2026 update

LCP, INP, CLS — what's changed, what targets to hit, and the highest-leverage fixes for each metric.

📖 14 min⭐ Intermediate
Performance

Image optimization beyond compression

WebP vs AVIF, modern responsive image patterns, lazy-loading without breaking LCP, and CDN considerations.

📖 10 min⭐ Intermediate
Performance

HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and why your TTFB is slow

Why upgrading your protocol stack is the single biggest performance lever most sites haven't pulled yet.

📖 9 min⭐ Advanced
Schema

Schema markup — a practical introduction

Which schemas actually move the needle in 2026, how to validate them, and which ones Google quietly stopped caring about.

📖 13 min⭐ Beginner
Schema

FAQ & HowTo schema — what still works

Google de-emphasized FAQ rich results, but the schema is still worth implementing. Here's where it pays off and where it doesn't.

📖 7 min⭐ Intermediate
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