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Accessibility and mobile

Add alt text and dimensions to images

Describe meaningful images for screen readers and search engines, mark decorative ones correctly, and set width and height so the layout does not jump.

Beginner · 20 min

Security and performance

Add basic HTTP security headers

Strict-Transport-Security, X-Content-Type-Options and a frame policy protect visitors from common attacks with a few lines of configuration.

Intermediate · 30 min

Answer engines and AI visibility

Answer customer questions clearly (FAQ content and markup)

Publish the questions customers actually ask, each followed by a short, direct answer, and mark them up so answer engines can read them.

Beginner · 45 min

Technical SEO

Build an XML sitemap that only lists the right pages

A clean sitemap lists every page you want found: live, final and indexable. This guide covers creating one, keeping it accurate and fixing orphan pages.

Beginner · 20 min

Technical SEO

Control indexing with noindex, and avoid excluding important pages

Understand robots meta tags and the X-Robots-Tag header, find pages you excluded by accident, and control how much search and AI features may quote.

Beginner · 15 min

Technical SEO

Create and check your robots.txt file

robots.txt tells crawlers which parts of your site they may fetch and where your sitemap is. Here is how to publish a safe one and avoid blocking important pages by accident.

Beginner · 15 min

Answer engines and AI visibility

Decide how AI crawlers may access your site

Check which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows, make sure your content is readable without JavaScript, and understand llms.txt.

Intermediate · 25 min

Technical SEO

Fix broken links and pages that return errors

Find and repair links to missing pages, restore or redirect dead URLs, and deal with server errors and unreachable pages.

Beginner · 30 min

Experience and conversion

Give visitors a clear next step: CTAs, navigation and breadcrumbs

Make it obvious what visitors should do next, and how to find their way around, from the homepage down to deep pages.

Beginner · 30 min

Answer engines and AI visibility

Identify your business with Organization structured data

Describe your business (name, logo, contact details, official profiles) in JSON-LD so search and AI systems can connect your site to the right entity.

Intermediate · 30 min

Accessibility and mobile

Label form fields, name icon links and declare the page language

Three quick accessibility fixes: every form field needs a label, every link needs readable text, and every page should declare its language.

Beginner · 20 min

Accessibility and mobile

Make pages display properly on phones (viewport meta tag)

Without a viewport tag, phones show your desktop layout zoomed out. One line in the page head fixes it, provided your layout is responsive.

Beginner · 10 min

Technical SEO

Plan clean, readable URLs and site depth

Use short, lowercase, hyphenated URLs and keep important pages within a few clicks of the homepage, without breaking existing links.

Intermediate · 20 min

E-commerce

Product pages: price, availability, shipping and returns

Answer the questions every shopper has before buying, on the page and in Product structured data.

Intermediate · 40 min

Technical SEO

Remove redirect chains and update links to redirected URLs

Redirect old URLs straight to their final destination in one hop, and point your own links at final URLs.

Intermediate · 25 min

Security and performance

Serve everything over HTTPS and fix mixed content

Redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS with a permanent redirect, and make sure HTTPS pages do not load any http:// resources.

Intermediate · 30 min

Experience and conversion

Set social sharing previews and a favicon

Control how your pages look when shared in messaging apps and social networks, and how your brand appears in browser tabs and search results.

Beginner · 15 min

Technical SEO

Set up hreflang for multilingual and multi-regional sites

Tell search engines which language or regional version of a page to show, with valid codes, self-references and reciprocal links.

Advanced · 45 min

Answer engines and AI visibility

Show who you are: About, contact, authors, dates and sources

Visible information about the people behind the site, how to reach them and where facts come from builds trust with visitors, and makes content more reliable to quote.

Beginner · 30 min

Security and performance

Speed up slow server responses and heavy pages

Reduce time to first byte with caching and better hosting, slim down oversized HTML, and measure real performance properly.

Intermediate · 45 min

Content and on-page

Structure pages with one H1 and logical subheadings

Use one clear H1 for the page topic and H2–H3 for sections, without skipping levels, so people and machines can follow the page.

Beginner · 15 min

Content and on-page

Turn thin pages into useful, readable content

Expand pages that say too little, and make long pages easier to read, without padding them with filler.

Intermediate · 40 min

Technical SEO

Use canonical tags and fix duplicate content

Tell search engines which URL is the preferred version of a page, and consolidate pages that repeat the same content.

Intermediate · 30 min

Content and on-page

Write meta descriptions that earn the click

A meta description is your pitch under the title in search results. Write a unique, accurate summary for each important page.

Beginner · 20 min

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