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How a simple hosting migration improved crawl behaviour and site speed

Every so often, you make a change to your own site that reminds you how important the basics are. Recently, I moved my personal website...

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AI Search is moving fast, but the foundations still decide who gets seen

AI is reshaping organic search at a pace most of us have never seen before. New formats, new behaviours, new layers of visibility. Every week...

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The Confidence in Search Systems Framework

TL;DR Search has changed. It is no longer about rankings or clicks but about whether systems understand and trust your information. The Confidence in Search...

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Stable Numbers: a new website I have built and published

I have been working quietly on something new and it is finally ready to share. It is called Stable Numbers. This idea has been in...

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Introducing OAPP: An Open Protocol for Agentic Commerce

The rise of agentic commerce is one of the biggest shifts happening across digital marketing and eCommerce. AI agents are already discovering, comparing, and in...

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Agentic Commerce: How AI-Powered buying will reshape eCommerce

A new wave is forming across retail, and this one is not about another channel or marketplace. It is about AI buying for people, quite...

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Speaking at The Magento Smackdown

Last night I spoke at The Magento Smackdown in Manchester. My first time presenting at a developer event. I’m used to standing in front of...

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Do LLMs / AI Assistants respect the X-Robots-Tag?

I asked this recently on LinkedIn and got silence. So let’s dig into it properly here. The question is simple: do LLMs and AI assistants...

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Do Backlinks still matter if the source Page isn’t Indexed?

Backlinks still sit at the heart of SEO. That much we can all agree on. They remain one of the strongest signals in Google’s ranking...

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How to fix Shopify crawl issues in Screaming Frog and Sitebulb using Web Bot Auth

If you’ve ever tried crawling a Shopify site at scale, you’ll know how quickly those dreaded 429 Too Many Requests errors can derail your audit....

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