SEO
4 articles on SEO.
Core Web Vitals for Backend Engineers: TTFB, Caching & Server-Side Wins (2026)
Most Core Web Vitals advice targets frontend developers, but LCP and INP problems usually start at the server. This guide covers the backend half: TTFB budgets, connection pooling, cache strategy, streaming SSR, CDN headers, and compression — with the production numbers behind each fix.
June 10, 2026·7 min readGoogle's June 2026 Search Shake-Up: AI Mode, Gen-AI Reports in Search Console & What Developers Must Do
In two weeks Google completed the May 2026 core update, made Gemini 3.5 Flash the default AI Mode model, launched AI agents in Search at I/O 2026, and shipped the first-ever Generative AI performance reports in Search Console. Here's what changed, what it means for your traffic, and the exact developer checklist to respond.
June 10, 2026·5 min readllms.txt, GEO and AI Search: How Developers Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Mode (2026)
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is how your content gets cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. This developer-focused guide covers llms.txt and llms-full.txt, AI crawler policies, IndexNow, answer-first content structure, and the entity signals that drive AI citations in 2026 — with working code.
June 10, 2026·8 min readTechnical SEO for Next.js Developers: The Complete 2026 Guide
Technical SEO in 2026 is a engineering problem: metadata APIs, JSON-LD entities, honest sitemaps, AI crawler policies, and Core Web Vitals. This guide shows the exact Next.js App Router implementation I run in production — the same setup that got a portfolio site indexed by Google, Bing, and AI search engines.
June 10, 2026·8 min read