Redirect a Default Vercel Subdomain to Your Custom Domain
When you set up a custom domain in Vercel, the default `vercel.app` subdomain still serves your site, which can lead to duplicate content. Here's how to fix it.
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Everyone reading this will know who Google is. In software engineering, my main interest in Google is how it discovers, understands, and ranks the websites and applications we build. That work is usually described as Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, and while it spans content, architecture, performance, and technical governance, much of its practical implementation is driven by front‑end development.
Below you will find a subset of articles from my blog specifically about Google and technical SEO for JavaScript applications. This is a topic I have worked with for many years, although it has not been one I have written about often. There are seven articles collected here so far, which you can see and read below.
Redirect a Default Vercel Subdomain to Your Custom Domain. How to Improve Your Time to First Byte (TTFB). How to Improve Your Time to First Byte (TTFB)
Time To First Byte (TTFB) is a crucial influence on website performance. The easy answer is increasing server resources, but there are other considerations too.
10 Essential SEO Tips for Front‑End Developers. 10 Essential SEO Tips for Front‑End Developers
Ten practical SEO areas front‑end developers can influence, from site speed and semantics to metadata, mobile UX, internal links, and structured data.
Has Google Killed AMP? Has Google Killed AMP?
AMP has long split opinion: Google's preferential treatment of sites using AMP has long been a contentious point. Is it worth implementing AMP any longer?
Creating a Discernible Name for Icon Links. Creating a Discernible Name for Icon Links
A common issue I come across when auditing sites with Lighthouse is the "Links do not have a discernible name" error where links don't contain text.
Redirect a Default Netlify Subdomain to Your Custom Domain. Redirect a Default Netlify Subdomain to Your Custom Domain
When you set up a custom domain in Netlify, the default `netlify.com` subdomain still returns your app, which can lead to duplicate content. It is an easy fix.
Automatically Generate urllist.txt from sitemap.xml. Automatically Generate
urllist.txtfromsitemap.xmlUsing PHP it is quick and easy to automatically generate your urllist.txt sitemap from your sitemap.xml file (for example, using gatsby‑plugin‑sitemap).
