Viewport Meta Tag: Make Your Site Mobile Friendly
What the viewport meta tag does, the exact line to paste into your page head, why blocking zoom hurts visitors, and quick fixes for media queries, lang, charset and old tags.
Tag: Technical SEO
Soft 404 Errors, Noindex and Blocked Pages
What a soft 404 error is, how a stray noindex tag or robots.txt rule hides pages from Google, and the exact fixes for Apache, WordPress and simple PHP sites.
www vs non-www: Pick One and Redirect
Google ranks www and non-www the same. What hurts is when both open your site. Pick one, redirect the other in one jump with .htaccess, and check HTTP/2.
How to Create an XML Sitemap
Learn how to create an XML sitemap step by step: what goes in the file, which pages to leave out, size limits, and how to add it to robots.txt and Search Console.
Schema Markup for Beginners
What schema markup is in plain words, which JSON-LD types a small site needs, how to add them to WordPress or a PHP site, and how to test them for errors.
Why You Need an SSL Certificate for a Blog
No shop, no logins, so why bother with HTTPS? Here is what an SSL certificate does for a small blog: no Not secure label, safe comment forms, and a small but real SEO plus.
Whitelabel Error Page: What It Is and How to Fix It
Why Spring Boot shows the plain Whitelabel Error Page, how to replace it with your own error pages or an ErrorController, and how to avoid soft 404s.
Website Loading Slow but Internet Fast? Here's Why
Fast internet, slow site? The bottleneck is usually the website: server response time, heavy images, too many scripts. How to find the real cause and fix it, without buying hype.
Search Engine Listing Optimization
Your listing is the small ad Google writes for your page. Learn how to shape the title link, snippet, URL and rich results so more searchers choose you.
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 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.
