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How to fix what an audit finds, written plainly and kept up to date. Each guide links the free tool that checks your own site.

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The technical SEO checklist for 2026

A practical technical SEO checklist in the order that matters. Crawling, indexing, on-page signals, structured data, speed, AI search and security, with a way to check each item.

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Technical SEO

Why your page is not on Google

A step by step diagnosis for pages that do not appear in Google search. Status codes, robots.txt, noindex, canonical links, rendering, quality and how to ask Google to look again.

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AI search

robots.txt for AI crawlers

Which AI crawlers exist, what each one does, and how to write robots.txt rules that block model training while keeping your site visible in ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity answers.

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AI search

AI search readiness

The technical side of generative engine optimization. How ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI features find and read pages, and the checks that make sure they can read yours.

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AI search

llms.txt explained

What the llms.txt proposal is, the exact format, the difference with llms-full.txt, who reads it today and how to write and validate one for your site.

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Structured data

Structured data guide

What structured data does, which schema.org types to use on which pages, how to write valid JSON-LD, and the mistakes that cost rich results.

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Performance

Core Web Vitals explained

What Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift and Interaction to Next Paint measure, the thresholds, the difference between lab and field data, and the fixes that move each metric.

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Security

Security headers guide

The HTTP security headers every website should send, what each one protects against, safe values to start with, and how to roll out a Content-Security-Policy without breaking the site.

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Technical SEO

Website launch checklist

A launch checklist for new sites and redesigns. Remove the staging blockers, set up redirects, verify indexing, sharing, speed, accessibility and security, then monitor the first weeks.

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Monitoring

Website health monitoring

Why technical SEO and site health regress, what to monitor, how often, and how to set up alerts that are useful rather than noisy.

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