Technical SEO Guides & Tips

Here’s a lightweight Worker script that auto-adds loading="lazy" to images further down the page. It leaves the first couple untouched (default is 2) so hero or header images load immediately, then lazies the rest...

 

I put this together while prepping for my BrightonSEO 2025 presentation but ended up leaving it out of the final deck. It’s a lightweight Cloudflare Workers script that does one thing well: it checks your HTML...

 

.htaccess might look like a mess of syntax at first glance, but it gives you a ridiculous amount of control over how your site behaves. From managing status codes to forcing redirects, cleaning up URLs...

 

If you're using Nginx for SEO and care about how your site performs in search, it makes sense to go beyond just serving pages fast. Nginx gives you loads of control at the edge, but most of the good SEO bits...

 

Looking for a quick and effortless way to generate meta descriptions for pages missing them? If so, this lightweight Cloudflare Workers script might be exactly what you’re looking for. It ensures every page on your...

 

Want a fast, simple, and no-fuss way to automatically fix missing or empty image alt tags? This Cloudflare Workers script might be just what you’re looking for.

It scans your HTML for <img> tags and checks if...

 

Would you like a fast, cheap, and simple way to deploy hreflang tags without developer support? If so, I have a Cloudflare Workers script that might be just what you need!

This approach is perfect if all your...

 

Understanding HTTP status codes isn’t just for developers. If you care about how your website performs in search, you need to know what these codes are telling you. They reveal how your server responds to users...

 

If you’re honing your technical SEO skills and finding that tools such as Screaming Frog are taking too long to complete the crawl. Or the resource requirement is hogging down your computer! Why don’t you invest in a...

 

function generateHreflangTags() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
  var lastRow = sheet.getLastRow();
  
  for (var i = 2; i <= lastRow; i++) {
    var hreflang =...

 

Improve your Google Pagespeed Insights score by delaying the execution of below-the-fold third-party functionality such as commenting scripts, help bots, reCAPTCHA, Share This, Cookie Scripts, and more.

Async and...

 

With the recent release of Screaming Frog version 17 they have included a new issues summary report and summary export. This will become a very useful tool for up and coming SEOs to quickly obtain a snapshot of a...

 

Some of you performing speed and performance audits using the Google pagespeed API hooked up to Screaming Frog may find this table useful. I find it useful for Vlookups against metrics and diagnostics when reporting...

 

If you have a website that have multiple international territories hosted in subfolder. Use the formula below to exclude the subfolders. This will give you cleaner data to isolate and sort. An example usage URL...

 

Free open-source tools that integrate Google Lighthouse libraries as part of their main tool offering. To begin with I have posted this set of tools for my own usage. But, if like me, you find value in the...

 

• Go to File Manager in cPanel and open .htaccess inside the public_html folder.
• To force all web traffic to use HTTPS, insert the following lines of code in the .htaccess file...

 

Increase speed and performance by using DNS Prefetch and Preconnect. Below is a common list of websites where you would typically use Prefetching & Preconnects. For websites that request open connections to many...

 

To redirect all www. requests to non-www, add the following directive early on in your .htaccess file. This will force any www. requests to use non-www. using SEO-friendly 301 redirects.

RewriteEngine On...

 

Preload, dns-prefetch, prerender, preconnect, and prefetch are commonly known as Resource Hints (by W3C). They are used for informing the web browser that your website intends to establish connections to assets and...

 

This tutorial will show you how to extract the Core Web Vitals scores and Lighthouse insights in a convenient way that will save you time on collecting the data to help inform your technical SEO auditing and...