Guides
Practical guides on websites, email, security and AI automation, picked for bloggers & publishers.
Safari blocks identity resolution services that turn visitors' email addresses into tracking IDs, WebKit said on October 19, 2026. What it means for your site.
Bing AI training and grounding preferences replace NoArchive and NoCache from February 1, 2027. The new tags, the March 1 deadline and what to do now.
Google and Microsoft said on October 30, 2026 they will honor a shared AI training robots.txt signal, __usage_ai-training. What it does and how to prepare.
Google updated its user-generated spam guidance on October 26, 2026: keep share links and new users' pages out of the index and watch Search Console for abuse.
A step-by-step editorial workflow for publishers and creators: ideas, calendar, brief, draft, edit, fact-check, metadata, scheduling and post-publish checks.
How to write title tags and meta descriptions people click, why Google rewrites them, and the template mistakes that make your search snippets worse.
Cut image weight without losing quality: when to use WebP or AVIF, how to write srcset and sizes, when to lazy load, and how to compress sensibly.
Cloudflare and OpenAI shared results of a pilot that fed network signals to ChatGPT search on October 15, 2026, plus new checks on bot behavior. What to do.
Chrome added four experimental ad metrics to CrUX on 15 September 2026. What ad count, density and weight mean for your site, and whether they affect rankings.
How long should a blog post be? Google says it has no preferred word count. Here's how to judge length by search intent, with practical ranges by post type.
Google ran two core updates in 2026, in March and May. What changed, what Google said and how UK businesses should review search traffic before the next one.
How to convert video to MP3 without uploading your files, which bitrate to pick, MP3 vs AAC and other formats, and why you should only convert videos you own.
What Crawled and Discovered - currently not indexed mean in Search Console, how to tell which pages matter, and the fixes that get the right pages indexed.
Write alt text that describes each image in context, use descriptive filenames, compress to WebP or AVIF and use img tags so Google indexes images.
Find broken internal links, soft 404s and redirect chains, then fix them with copy-paste Apache and Nginx rules that send users and Googlebot in one hop.
Free checklist (PDF)
31 practical checks for bloggers & publishers: website speed and mobile, Google Business Profile and reviews, email security, booking and enquiry handling, and AI search visibility. Each one says why it matters, and many link to a free tool that checks it.
Readers follow a publication because of the judgement and character behind it. When the scaffolding around the work runs more reliably, that voice has more room to be heard.
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