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- Structured data11 min read
Recipe schema: the fields that earn the rich result
The Recipe JSON-LD Google needs for a recipe card in search, with durations, ingredients, HowToStep instructions, nutrition, ratings and video, the rules that get sites flagged, and the plugin notes.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Security14 min read
Recovering a hacked WordPress site, step by step
Contain, preserve, find the entry, reinstall clean, verify with a Googlebot comparison, harden, request review. The order that keeps the spam from coming back, with the wp-cli commands for each step.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO13 min read
Redirect chains after a migration: finding every hop
Migrations leave redirects stacked on redirects. Learn why chains appear, how to find every hop with the redirect checker and the bulk URL checker, and how to collapse each chain into one 301 on nginx, Apache and WordPress.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO12 min read
Redirects without chains: 301, 302, 307, 308 and one hop
Which redirect status to use when, why http → https → www → slash chains happen, and how to collapse them into one hop on nginx, Apache, Caddy, Cloudflare and WordPress, with a free redirect checker.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Security12 min read
Referrer-Policy: what leaks in the Referer header and how to stop it
The Referer header tells every site, script and image on your page which URL a visitor came from, query string included. Pick the right Referrer-Policy value, set it on any server and verify it.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Speed12 min read
Render-blocking resources: the CSS and JS that delay the first paint
Find the stylesheets and scripts that keep your page blank, then defer, inline, split or remove them in the right order, with fixes for HTML, WordPress and Shopify.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Speed13 min read
Responsive images: srcset and sizes explained with real numbers
Stop sending a 2000-pixel photo to a 400-pixel slot. How the browser picks from srcset, why sizes is required, and a three-breakpoint example with the real pixel counts, on any CMS.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO7 min read
robots.txt — test it before it hides your site
One Disallow line can remove a whole site from Google, and it happens every week when staging rules reach production. This guide explains what robots.txt can and cannot do, how to test a URL against it the way Googlebot does, what to put in it for a typical site, and how to handle AI crawlers.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO11 min read
robots.txt patterns: wildcards, Allow, crawl-delay and the AI bots
How Google actually parses robots.txt (RFC 9309), with working patterns for parameters, file types and one-file exceptions, why crawl-delay does nothing for Google, and a clean policy for AI crawlers.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Structured data12 min read
Schema for multilingual sites: inLanguage, entities and shared ids
How to write structured data for a site in several languages so each version describes its own page, the brand stays one entity, prices match the market and Google never sees two organisations.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Structured data7 min read
Schema markup validation — JSON-LD that earns rich results
Structured data tells Google what a page is about in a form it can trust: a product with a price, an article with an author, a business with opening hours. This guide validates what is on the page, explains required and recommended properties per type, and shows the JSON-LD that qualifies for rich results.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Checklists11 min read
Search Console vs getReport: what each shows and how to use both
Search Console shows what Google saw and how people found you; getReport shows what is broken on a page right now and how to fix it. Which to open for each question, and the workflows that use both.Updated 25 Sept 2026
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