A search result for brass diyas with a full title, shown under a title that is cut off On-page

Title tags and meta descriptions that earn the click

The title is the label in the search result. The description is the sentence that earns the click. Both need to be unique, and neither is a place for the same slogan on every page.

2 Oct 20264 min read

A speedometer with green, amber, and red zones on a teal background Performance

Core Web Vitals in plain language: LCP, INP, and CLS

Three measurements decide whether a page feels fast. One is about loading, one about responding to a tap, and one about the page jumping while it loads.

30 Sep 20264 min read

A preferred page and a duplicate joined by a canonical, beside a cart page marked noindex and left out of the sitemap Indexing

Canonicals, sitemaps, and the pages Google should skip

Three different instructions get mixed up. One picks the preferred URL, one asks to stay out of the index, and one is only a list of pages to discover.

28 Sep 20264 min read

A designed page beside the same words in plain text, with the map missing from what a crawler can read AI search

What ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google can see

Answer engines do not see your design. They see the HTML you returned, the robots.txt rules you published, and the schema that says who you are.

26 Sep 20264 min read

A small robot looking at a page beside the words llms.txt AI search

What llms.txt is, and what it will not do

llms.txt is a short Markdown file that points agents at your important pages. Google Search does not use it. It is still worth publishing for the agents that might.

24 Sep 20264 min read