Website migration checklist: how not to lose traffic
Moving to a new CMS, domain or URL structure. I break down what actually breaks, how to build the redirect map and what to check in the first two weeks after the switch.
Moving to a new CMS, domain or URL structure. I break down what actually breaks, how to build the redirect map and what to check in the first two weeks after the switch.
Crawl budget is not most websites' problem. Here is how to tell whether Googlebot really cannot keep up with your site, and what actually fixes it.
The SEO process stages in order: audit, keyword research, site structure, technical fixes, content and links, measurement. What each stage does and what the client actually gets.
Sitemap.xml and robots.txt solve different problems and get confused constantly. What belongs in your sitemap, what to block in robots.txt and which mistakes cost you indexing.
An orphan page has no internal links pointing to it. Here is why that hurts SEO, how to find orphan pages with a crawler, sitemap and Search Console, and what to do with them.
Keyword cannibalization is when several pages compete for one query. How to spot it in Search Console, tell it apart from a false alarm, and what to do next.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is optimizing to be cited in AI answers: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini. I break down how GEO differs from SEO mechanically and which metrics to track.
How long until SEO results: first shifts in 2–3 months, visible traffic in 4–6, a steady flow of leads in 6–12. I break down what happens month by month and what the timeline depends on.
I took apart 10 sites in the niche: 96 pages, 27 page types, 197 sections, 1,288 elements. What the leaders share, where they fail, and what nobody has.