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Shopify sets up a sitemap and canonical tags for you, but plenty is still yours: titles, redirects, product markup, apps and Merchant Center. Here's the audit, screen by screen.
Is your website ready for AI agents? Probably more than you think. Five checks that matter, which new AI files are worth your time, and how to test your site for free.
Meta's updated business terms let it crawl sites linked to your page. Nothing changes until November 20. If AI training doesn't bother you, do nothing. If it does, here's the robots.txt fix for WordPress, Squarespace and Wix.
Bots keep filling your WordPress contact form with junk. Here's how to layer a honeypot, a CAPTCHA and Cloudflare, set them up in WPForms and Forminator, and what no tool will stop.
Products added, but Google shows a competitor instead? Twelve WooCommerce checks, each with where to look, what good looks like, how to fix it and how to confirm, that you can run in an afternoon.
Your website traffic fell off a cliff and you don't know why. Here's how to tell a real drop from a tracking glitch, and the checks that find the cause, cheapest first.
Your WordPress site is sending visitors to spam, or Google says it may be hacked. Here's the cleanup order that keeps the attacker from walking straight back in, and how to get Google's warning removed.
Someone says your website needs an llms.txt file for AI tools. What it is, what Google says about it, and how to add one yourself in a few steps.
Your host or Cloudflare offers a "block AI bots" switch. What each kind of AI bot does, what blocking costs you, and how to check what your site does now.
Google measures how fast and stable your site feels to real visitors. Here's what those Core Web Vitals scores mean, what to do when PageSpeed says 'no data', and the fixes that matter on Wix, Squarespace and WordPress.
Your site isn't on Google, or it's buried on page four. Here's how to find out which problem you have, using a site: search and Google's free Search Console, and what to do about each.
Told your site needs schema markup? Here's what it does and doesn't do, the settings that add it on WordPress, Wix and Squarespace, and how to test it with Google's free tools.
Good content won't rank if Google can't crawl, load or trust your pages. Seven technical SEO checks a small business can run in an hour with free Google tools, and what to fix first.
Your page is live but Google can't find it, or won't show it. Here's how to see what Googlebot sees in Search Console and fix the robots.txt, noindex, linking and sitemap problems behind it.
Pages dropping out of Google with no content changes can be a DNS problem. How to check DNS errors in Search Console, put your records right, and lock your domain down so it doesn't happen again.
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