How to Find Popular Keywords for Your Website
Start with the searches that already bring you visitors, then widen the list with autocomplete, Google Trends and a keyword tool, and give each keyword one page.
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How to Speed Up Font Loading on Your Website
Fonts can hide your text and shift your layout. Here is how to load them fast: fewer files, WOFF2, subsets, font-display, preconnect and careful preload, or plain system fonts.
How to Get Backlinks for My Website
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.
How to Find Meta Tags on a Website
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.
How to Add Meta Tag Headers to a URL
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.
Free Web Directory Submission: Pick Safe Sites
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.
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.
How to Create a 301 Redirect in .htaccess
Copy-ready .htaccess lines for single pages, folders, HTTP to HTTPS and www to non-www, plus how to test them and the mistakes that cause redirect loops.
Conservative Search Engines: A Neutral List
A neutral look at search engines sold as unbiased or private: which ones still work, whose index they use, and how to get your site into them.
How to Choose an SSL Certificate
DV, OV or EV? Free or paid? Single, wildcard or multi-domain? A plain guide to picking the SSL certificate your site actually needs, without paying for extras it doesn't.
Bookmarking and Classified Sites for SEO
Social bookmarking and classified ads won't lift your rankings much today. Here is what they still do well, where they fail, and how to use them without spam.
Best SEO Tools for Small Businesses
A free-first SEO toolkit for small businesses: what Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Keyword Planner and PageSpeed Insights do, and when a paid suite is worth it.
