SEO guides by Christopher Abraham Guides to indexing, audits, schema, redirects, site speed, and AI search https://christopherabraham.com/guides/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Christopher Abrahamhttps://christopherabraham.com/about/ How to read the Page indexing report in Search Console https://christopherabraham.com/guides/page-indexing-report/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z A field guide to Search Console's Page indexing report: what each exclusion reason means, which ones need action, and how to find the template behind them. The AI search readiness checklist https://christopherabraham.com/guides/ai-search-checklist/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z A practical checklist for AI search: crawler access, server rendered content, entity schema, answer shaped pages, llms.txt, outside evidence, and measurement. What a technical SEO audit should give you https://christopherabraham.com/guides/seo-audit-deliverables/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z How to tell a useful technical SEO audit from a tool export: a clear question, evidence for each finding, a ranked plan, developer tickets, and a plain summary. The schema markup a small business actually needs https://christopherabraham.com/guides/small-business-schema/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Which schema types a small business needs, which to skip, and example structured data for local businesses, services, FAQs, and breadcrumbs, kept accurate. Ten rules for 301 redirects that keep your rankings https://christopherabraham.com/guides/redirect-rules/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Ten rules for 301 redirects in migrations and redesigns: map one to one, avoid chains, keep redirects for years, use 410 on purpose, and test in bulk. Core Web Vitals in plain English https://christopherabraham.com/guides/core-web-vitals/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Core Web Vitals explained without jargon: what LCP, INP, and CLS measure, why lab scores differ from field data, the usual causes, and the fixes that work. How to correct what AI search says about you https://christopherabraham.com/guides/correct-ai-answers/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z When ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google's AI Overviews get your facts wrong, here is how to find where the error came from and publish corrections that get picked up. One person, two names: entity SEO for pen names and nicknames https://christopherabraham.com/guides/two-names-one-entity/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z How to make Google and AI assistants see that Christopher and Chris, or a pen name and a legal name, are one person, using schema, sameAs, and consistency. Proving expertise with third-party sources https://christopherabraham.com/guides/third-party-proof/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Your own claims carry little weight with Google and AI assistants. University news, vendor case studies, old bios, and bylines do. How to find and use them. How to write an About page that search engines and AI trust https://christopherabraham.com/guides/about-page-ai/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z A recipe for an About page that Google and AI assistants quote correctly: current work first, verifiable facts, outside sources, schema, and no guesswork. Launch a site on a parked domain with Cloudflare and GitHub Pages https://christopherabraham.com/guides/parked-domain-launch/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Step by step: take a domain off a parking page, move DNS to Cloudflare, point it at GitHub Pages, get HTTPS, and avoid the caching traps on launch day. How to lock down a domain that never sends email https://christopherabraham.com/guides/non-sending-domain/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Four DNS records stop spammers from forging mail from a domain you never send from: a null MX, an SPF that allows nothing, strict DMARC, and an empty DKIM key. What happens to your old domains when they lapse https://christopherabraham.com/guides/lapsed-domains/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z When an old company or project domain expires, drop catchers buy it for its links and reputation. What they do with it, the harm, and how to protect yourself. How to write an llms.txt file https://christopherabraham.com/guides/llms-txt/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z What llms.txt is, who reads it, and how to write one: the format, the full text companion file, Markdown page copies, robots.txt rules, and common mistakes. Meta keywords in 2026: ignored, mostly harmless, used honestly https://christopherabraham.com/guides/meta-keywords/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Google ignores the meta keywords tag and Bing has called stuffing it a spam signal. Why some sites still use it, and how to write one that does no harm at all. Website accessibility without overlays https://christopherabraham.com/guides/accessible-websites/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Build accessibility into a small business website instead of bolting on an overlay: contrast, headings, links, images, keyboard use, forms, and testing it. Accessibility as SEO: the search, AI, and trust dividends https://christopherabraham.com/guides/accessibility-seo-dividends/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z WCAG fixes pay off more than once: alt text, headings, link text, labels, and captions lift rankings, AI answers, agent browsing, and trust, and cut legal risk. The Lynx test: see your website the way crawlers and AI read it https://christopherabraham.com/guides/lynx-test/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Lynx, a text browser, shows what search engines and AI crawlers that skip JavaScript receive. How to install it, what to check, and online alternatives. Glossary of SEO and AI search terms https://christopherabraham.com/guides/glossary/ 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z 2026-10-06T12:00:00Z Plain English definitions of SEO and AI search terms: AEO, GEO, canonical tags, crawl budget, entities, INP, IndexNow, llms.txt, soft 404s, and many more.