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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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Bringing Back Windows XP, MSN Messenger and Even Windows 3.1

Every now and again I take a break from the serious side of technical SEO and dive headfirst into side projects that are more about...

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TechSEO North – Sheffield Meetup: November 2025

We’re heading to Sheffield for the final TechSEO North of 2025, and it’s shaping up to be a brilliant evening of technical SEO talks, networking,...

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Hack the Planet -30 year anniversary of Hackers movie

2025 marks the 30 year anniversary of the cult classic film Hackers – the very movie that first got me into tech. I’m looking at...

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How I Integrated Google NLP with Screaming Frog Using a PHP Proxy

Google’s Natural Language API is seriously underrated in SEO. It gives you insight into how Google might interpret a piece of content beyond just keywords,...

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llms.txt: AI-First Optimisation or a SEO Distraction?

There’s a growing discussion in SEO and AI circles about a small but potentially important text file: llms.txt. On the surface, it looks familiar. Like...

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Technical SEO for Digital PR – Webinar

Join us for the next TechSEO North webinar as we dig into the technical side of digital PR. 📅 Thursday 17th July, 4pm (UK time) We’re...

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