SEO notes

Short, practical notes on SEO — summaries of things worth remembering.

The pages you want Google to ignore (noindex, follow)

Beginners think every page needs index, follow. It doesn't — some pages should be deliberately kept out of Google with noindex, follow. Which ones, and why it protects your SEO.

Submit your site to search engines (don't just wait to be found)

Robots.txt and a sitemap are passive. Verifying your site in each engine's tool gets you found faster and gives you a dashboard. Where to submit, and how IndexNow fits.

A sample SEO-ready website: the right HTML for every page

A copy-paste example of a small brand's whole site — Home, Services, News, Contact — with the right HTML structure and the keyword each page should target.

Want your site to show up in AI answers?

More people get answers from ChatGPT and Google AI without clicking a link. There's no official AI-SEO standard yet — but here's how to prepare, honestly.

Image, video & short-story pages: too short for Google?

Have a page that's mostly an image, video, or short story? Short isn't the problem — low value is. How Google sees these pages, and how to improve them.

Every SEO tag: required, recommended, or optional

Every HTML tag that matters for SEO in one place — title, meta, headings, images, JSON-LD, Open Graph — each marked required, recommended or optional.

The basic steps to SEO your website: a 2026 checklist

A practical beginner's SEO checklist for 2026 — technical foundation, content, on-page and UX — with each step linked to the official Google guidance.

The best way to do multi-language SEO: /vi paths + hreflang

How to serve two languages for SEO without hurting rankings: one crawlable URL per language, reciprocal hreflang, and no cookie-based content swapping.