Blog
Notes on SEO, written while learning
Short articles about the parts of SEO I am actually practising: title tags, technical audits, canonical tags and content structure. Each one is written after I have tried the method on this site.
All articles
Four published so far. Newest first.
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Technical SEO
Canonical Tags in SEO: A Beginner's Guide
What a canonical tag does, how search engines treat it, and the mistakes that make it useless.
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On-page SEO
An on-page SEO checklist for beginners
A repeatable order for reviewing any page: search intent, title tag, headings, content depth, internal links, images and canonical.
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Technical SEO
How to run a basic technical SEO audit
Crawl a site, compare what you found with what is indexed, check rendering, then prioritise. Written for small sites without enterprise tooling.
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Content optimization
How to write title tags and meta descriptions
Why pixel width matters more than character counts, how Google rewrites titles, and a simple before-and-after test you can run on your own pages.
Where to start
If you are reviewing your first website, read the on-page checklist before anything else. It is ordered so you do not waste time polishing metadata on a page that does not answer the query.