Posts tagged with "seo"

Three GitHub Actions workflows, Dependabot, and a Lighthouse config — here's the full CI/CD pipeline that builds, deploys, secures, and monitors this Jekyll blog. Including the bugs I shipped along the way.

GitHub Pages doesn't support tag or category pages out of the box. Here's how I built a custom Jekyll generator plugin that creates them automatically — and the SEO lessons learned along the way.

The invisible infrastructure behind a Jekyll blog — how permalink structure, reading time estimates, custom excerpt separators, pagination, and redirect handling all work together. These aren't glamorous features, but getting them wrong breaks SEO, confuses readers, and creates maintenance headaches.

After 130+ posts and two years of Jekyll customization, here's the complete feature set behind this blog — from Mermaid diagrams and KaTeX math to GDPR compliance, Pandoc exports, and the SEO pipeline. A look behind the curtain at what it takes to run a technical blog on GitHub Pages.

I've been writing about technology since 2004. This blog has lived on WordPress, Blogger, and now Jekyll on GitHub Pages. Here's how I set it up, what I added along the way, and what I'd do differently if I started over.

How to handle sitemap.xml generation when running multiple Jekyll sites under a single custom domain on GitHub Pages — and why it matters for AdSense approval.

Many Jekyll themes — especially minimal forks — ship without proper head and body tags. Browsers don't care. Bots do. Here's how to check and fix it in five minutes.

I audited my Jekyll sitemap and found that 262 of 434 URLs were auto-generated tag pages, category pages, and pagination — most with a single post. Here's how to clean it up without losing anything.

My GDPR implementation was too aggressive — it hid the AdSense script from Google's verification bot. Here's how I separated verification from ad serving while keeping GDPR compliance intact.

After another AdSense rejection, I shifted focus from technical fixes to E-E-A-T — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. Here's what I changed and why.

Another AdSense rejection with no specific details. Documenting the debugging process, fixes implemented, and the frustration of opaque rejection messages.

Building a comprehensive SEO health check system for Jekyll sites with GitHub Actions, Lighthouse CI, and automated link validation - Part 2 of the Jekyll SEO series.

How to resolve Google Search Console redirect warnings and canonical URL conflicts in Jekyll sites hosted on GitHub Pages.

Foundational optimizations for a Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages — the changes that made the biggest difference across 100+ posts over two years.