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Technical SEO articles: indexing, canonicals, redirects and robots rules, each explained with the evidence an audit actually reads from the page.
Technical SEO
robots.txt in the wild: what the top 10,000 domains actually serve
Original data: only 1,837 of 10,000 popular domains served a robots.txt a crawler could read as one.
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noindex vs robots.txt disallow: which one removes a page from Google?
Disallow stops crawling. noindex stops indexing. Using both at once means Google never reads the noindex.
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Canonical tags: why Google treats rel=canonical as a hint, and the mistakes that make it ignore yours
A canonical tag is a hint Google weighs against redirects, links and sitemaps. Make every signal agree.
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Redirect chains and loops: 301 vs 302 vs 308, and how many hops is too many
Use 301 or 308 for permanent moves, redirect straight to the final URL, and keep any chain under five hops.
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