Robots.txt for SEO: what to block, what to allow and how to test it
What robots.txt can and cannot do for SEO, the syntax Google follows, what to block and never block, how errors are handled, and ready-to-copy files for a clini...
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Step-by-step guides you can follow yourself. Every claim links to its source, and each guide ends with a checklist and answers to common questions.
What robots.txt can and cannot do for SEO, the syntax Google follows, what to block and never block, how errors are handled, and ready-to-copy files for a clini...
How to find the searches nearby customers make, from "near me" and city terms to Hindi and Hinglish queries, and decide which deserve a page, a profile field or...
How to optimise product pages for Google Search, Shopping and AI shopping answers: titles, descriptions, merchant listing markup, shipping, returns, feeds and a...
A beginner's method for server logs: get the file, find Googlebot and AI crawlers, verify them, and turn what they fetch into fixes, with tested commands.
What Google has actually said about topical authority, plus a cluster worksheet, a "worth writing" test and linking rules that avoid thin pages and scaled conte...
Which topics deserve a video, and how to write titles, chapters and transcripts, embed videos on your site and measure citations in AI Overviews and ChatGPT.
Mentions now matter more than links for AI answers. Find the sources ChatGPT and AI Overviews cite in your niche, earn a place on them honestly and skip the tac...
Told to "improve E-E-A-T" after a ranking drop? What Google actually says, plus a page-by-page audit to prove real experience, expertise and trust on a small bu...
A step-by-step entity SEO guide: define your brand on one page, mark it up with sameAs, make every listing match, and correct what Google and AI assistants get...
Which business listings still matter in 2026, from Google, Apple Business and Bing Places to Justdial and IndiaMART, how to fix wrong details, and when to stop...
How to decide which towns and branches deserve a page, what to put on each one, and how to stay clear of Google's doorway and scaled content policies.
A free, repeatable method to collect the questions customers ask ChatGPT, AI Mode and Perplexity, sort them by intent and stage, and decide what to build first.
A simple internal linking system for 20–500 page sites: Google's link rules, a hub-and-service page model, a free orphan-page audit, a spreadsheet template and...
A Search Console method to tell real keyword cannibalisation from harmless overlap, with thresholds you set and a merge, differentiate, canonical or leave decis...
A free-first workflow to see who outranks you on Google, who AI answers cite instead of you, and which gaps are worth closing.
A before, during and after checklist for moving domain, platform or URLs without losing rankings, with a redirect map template, Change of Address rules and a 30...
How Google's AI Mode splits one question into many searches, what Google says you can ignore, and a free method to map sub-questions and decide between one page...
What Google will and won't remove, how to report and appeal a fake review, what to do about review bombing and extortion, and how US, UK and Indian review laws...
Most Google searches now end without a click. Score keywords by click potential, intent and visibility value, then decide what to build for each one.
A plain-English checklist for AI agents that book, buy and fill in forms: what is live in October 2026, what is still experimental, and what to fix first.
Why ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity may miss JavaScript content that Google indexes, how to see what each bot gets in five minutes, and which rendering fix to pi...
What Google's 2026 spam policies and AI-content guidance actually say, with a human-in-the-loop workflow for drafting with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini safely.
Set up GA4 to show visits and leads from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Claude with a tested regex, and learn which AI clicks GA4 cannot see.
A free-data method to find pages losing clicks or AI citations, decide whether to refresh, merge, redirect or remove each one, and make updates that count.
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