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Technical SEO
Technical SEO is where Search Engine Optimisation meets the build. It is the work of making sure a site can be crawled, rendered, understood and trusted when the CMS, templates, JavaScript, redirects and platform architecture get in the way. General SEO can deal with demand, content and reputation. This category is for the problems caused by the website itself.
Below you will find a subset of articles from my blog specifically about technical SEO implementation and related technical SEO for JavaScript applications. This is an area I have worked with for many years, and it has been a regular subject in my writing. There are twenty‑three articles collected together for you below.
The Web Just Invented a Toll Booth for AI. 
Technical GEO for Websites: Entities, Structured Data, and Crawl Paths. Technical GEO for Websites: Entities, Structured Data, and Crawl Paths
Technical GEO for websites, covering indexing, renderability, entity clarity, structured data, and crawl paths without inventing an AI‑only markup layer.
Schema for Service Pages Without Overclaiming. Schema for Service Pages Without Overclaiming
Model service page schema without overclaiming by matching visible content, Service data, OfferCatalog, breadcrumbs, FAQs, entities, and proof clearly.
How Service Pages Become Answerable in AI Search. How Service Pages Become Answerable in AI Search
How service pages become easier for AI search to retrieve and summarise through clear problems, visible proof, internal links, schema, and answers.
Traffic Dropped After a Replatform: The Technical Checks I Run First. Traffic Dropped After a Replatform: The Technical Checks I Run First
Diagnose traffic drops after a redesign, migration, or replatform by checking route parity, rendered HTML, redirects, canonicals, sitemaps, and schema.
E‑Commerce SEO Migration: Product and Category Pages in Next.js. E‑Commerce SEO Migration: Product and Category Pages in Next.js
How to migrate e‑commerce product and category pages to Next.js without losing SEO value, including URLs, filters, schema, canonicals, and redirects.
Core Web Vitals Got Worse After a Redesign. Core Web Vitals Got Worse After a Redesign
How to isolate Core Web Vitals regressions after a redesign, covering LCP, INP, CLS, templates, scripts, images, fonts, data, and release evidence.
Headless CMS SEO Controls Checklist. Headless CMS SEO Controls Checklist
A headless CMS SEO checklist covering metadata, canonicals, schema, redirects, sitemaps, preview, internal links, image fields, and publishing controls.
Technical SEO Launch Criteria for a Next.js Migration. Technical SEO Launch Criteria for a Next.js Migration
Technical SEO launch criteria for Next.js migrations, covering URLs, redirects, canonicals, metadata, rendered HTML, schema, sitemaps, and recovery.
How to Compare Rendered HTML Before and After a Migration. How to Compare Rendered HTML Before and After a Migration
Compare rendered HTML before and after a migration, checking headings, metadata, links, schema, body copy, media, crawl signals, and launch risk.
Traffic Dropped After a WordPress to Next.js Migration: What to Check First. Traffic Dropped After a WordPress to Next.js Migration: What to Check First
How to diagnose traffic loss after a WordPress to Next.js migration by checking redirects, rendered HTML, metadata, canonicals and tracking noise.
WordPress to Next.js Migration Checklist for Content, Preview and SEO. WordPress to Next.js Migration Checklist for Content, Preview and SEO
A WordPress to Next.js migration checklist for URLs, content models, media, preview, redirects, metadata, schema, sitemaps, SEO, and launch checks.
Next.js Sitemap, Robots and Crawlability Debugging Checklist. Next.js Sitemap, Robots and Crawlability Debugging Checklist
A Next.js crawlability checklist for debugging sitemaps, robots.txt, canonicals, route generation, redirects, staging leaks, missing pages, and indexation.
Why JavaScript Pages are Crawled but Not Indexed. Why JavaScript Pages are Crawled but Not Indexed
Why JavaScript pages get crawled but not indexed, covering rendered content, metadata, canonicals, links, noindex rules, quality, and crawl signals.
React SPA to Next.js Migration Checklist for SEO and Indexing. React SPA to Next.js Migration Checklist for SEO and Indexing
A React SPA to Next.js SEO migration checklist for preserving indexing, redirects, metadata, rendered HTML, internal links, crawl paths, and launch confidence.
How View Source Stopped Being Enough. How View Source Stopped Being Enough
Why view source stopped being enough for modern web checks, and how rendered HTML, hydration, metadata, schema, crawl paths, and client output changed audits.
Build‑Time SEO Checks in Gatsby. Build‑Time SEO Checks in Gatsby
Run build‑time SEO checks in Gatsby across routes, metadata, canonicals, headings, sitemaps, schema, redirects, CMS content gaps, and release confidence.
Local SEO is a Technical Problem Too. Local SEO is a Technical Problem Too
Local SEO is a technical problem too, covering crawlable content, structured pages, performance, metadata, internal links, and reliable local signals.