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- SEO13 min read
'Discovered – currently not indexed': what it means and what to do
Google knows the URL and has not fetched it. How that differs from "Crawled – currently not indexed", the real causes on small sites in order of likelihood, and a 20-minute triage with three checks.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO12 min read
404 vs 410 vs redirect: what to do with removed pages
When a page goes, choose per URL between a 301 to its equivalent, a 410 for pages gone for good, or a plain 404. This guide gives the decision rules, the server snippets and the bulk workflow for a whole list of removed URLs.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO8 min read
A one-page SEO audit, the getReport way
Forty checks on one URL in about a minute: title, description, headings, canonical, robots, indexability, links, images, structured data. This guide explains what the audit covers, how to read the score, which findings to fix first and which to ignore for a given kind of page.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO14 min read
AI crawlers and robots.txt: who fetches your site and how to decide
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and 15 more read your robots.txt. See which ones train models and which send visitors, copy a robots.txt that matches your site, and add a valid llms.txt.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO10 min read
AMP in 2026: keep it or remove it, and how to remove it safely
AMP no longer earns a place in Top Stories or a ranking boost, and it doubles the pages you maintain. Who still benefits, what it costs, and the order of steps that removes it without losing traffic.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO10 min read
Breadcrumbs: navigation and structured data together
A breadcrumb trail tells visitors where they are and lets Google print a readable path in your listing. Build the visible trail and the BreadcrumbList JSON-LD once, with HTML and WordPress settings.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO14 min read
Bulk URL checker: 1,000 status codes and redirects at once
Paste an old sitemap or a redirect map into a free bulk URL checker and see the final status, hops, noindex and canonical of every URL, then fix a migration in the right order.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO8 min read
Canonical tags explained, with every mistake we see
The canonical tag decides which URL Google ranks when the same content lives at several addresses. This guide covers what it should say, how redirects and www variants interact with it, and the six mistakes that quietly give your rankings away.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO12 min read
Canonicals across domains: syndication, mirrors and republishing
When one article lives on two domains, learn which case needs a cross-domain canonical, which needs noindex and which needs a redirect, with Google's current syndication advice and code.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO14 min read
Crawl budget for sites under 10,000 pages (usually not your problem)
Google says crawl budget only matters for very large or fast-changing sites. Prove whether yours is limited, see what wastes Googlebot's visits on a small site, and fix it in the right order.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO12 min read
Duplicate titles and descriptions across a site
Two pages with the same title look like one page to Google and like two identical options to a searcher. Find every duplicate on your site in an afternoon and fix the templates for good.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO12 min read
Faceted navigation and parameter URLs: keeping filters out of the index
Filters and sort options turn one category into thousands of URLs. Learn which parameter URLs to index, which to canonicalise, noindex or block in robots.txt, and how to see what Googlebot actually crawls on your shop.Updated 25 Sept 2026
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