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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Content and on-page

Write unique, descriptive title tags

The title is the headline people see in search results and browser tabs. Give every page a unique, specific title of a sensible length.

Beginner · 20 min

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