The stories about Site Architecture from this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
Google Search has just updated its favicon documentation to now specify that Googlebot must be able to follow redirects from the homepage to the page where the favicon is specified. The document also…
Crawling & Indexing Site Architecture
E-commerce SEO has problems most websites never face: thousands of similar product pages, manufacturer descriptions shared by every competitor, filters that generate millions of URLs, products that…
Site Architecture Structured Data E-commerce
Technical SEO is the foundation everything else sits on. The best content in your niche will not rank if search engines cannot crawl it, choose not to index it, cannot render it, or cannot work out…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing Site Architecture
There have been a number of reports recently of sites struggling to be properly indexed following a site migration. I have consulted with a few sites on this issue and have developed a theory. Please…
Crawling & Indexing Site Architecture
301 respondents shared what they’re using AI for, how it affects their productivity, their favorite tools, and more. AI use in content creation is almost ubiquitous, with 93% of respondents saying…
Content & Quality Site Architecture
Stay Visible is my monthly personal update for the SEO, GEO and SISTRIX community. In this edition I talk about the Deep Dive chat feature, the Google ‘goto’ redirection problem that has been solved,…
Site Architecture AI Search & Visibility
Another week, more volatility within the Google Search results. Google is also swapping out direct links to go-to URL redirect links in its search results to protect...
Ranking & Algorithms Site Architecture
The way a site's pages are organized and linked together — its information architecture — affects far more than whether a human visitor can find what they're looking for. It directly shapes how…
Site Architecture
Setting up redirects properly after acquiring an expired domain meaningfully affects how much of its residual value actually transfers to your intended destination.
Site Architecture
Your traffic dropped after a migration and nobody can explain why. Important pages sit in “discovered – currently not indexed” […]
Crawling & Indexing Site Architecture
Learn how OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.
Site Architecture
Psychological ownership can make you more effective, but you’ll struggle if it attaches to things you can’t control. Spot misplaced ownership and redirect it.
Site Architecture
Assembled from our own archive of 1,107 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
