Technical SEO

Practical technical seo notes from my own work, with the reasoning and checks behind the changes.

Practical notes from my development and SEO work. Arranged by when the work happened; this collection was published on 6 October 2026.

7 notes · newest work first

September 2026

Technical SEO

Why a crawl block can get in the way of removing a page from search, and how I check WordPress search visibility from the outside.

Work notes · 15 September 2026

Technical SEO

How I decide which URL variations deserve their own identity, and keep canonical links, navigation and sitemaps consistent.

Work notes · 10 September 2026

Technical SEO

Why I check sitemap entries, modification dates and their actual responses instead of treating a working XML page as the whole job.

Work notes · 27 July 2026

Technical SEO

How I organise schema output so the page, author, publisher and specialist content describe one coherent thing.

Work notes · 7 July 2026

Technical SEO

An anonymous debugging note on empty template values, disappearing social tags and testing beyond the homepage.

Work notes · 25 June 2026

Technical SEO

The checks I make around archive URL changes: routing, redirects, tracking links, pagination and the links a site generates itself.

Work notes · 10 April 2026

Technical SEO

Why I check who writes a page’s titles, social tags and structured data before adding another SEO plugin.

Work notes · 9 October 2025

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