https://christopherabraham.com/guides/ Guides to indexing, audits, schema, redirects, site speed, and AI search en-us Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://christopherabraham.com/guides/page-indexing-report/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/page-indexing-report/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/ai-search-checklist/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/ai-search-checklist/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A practical checklist for AI search: crawler access, server rendered content, entity schema, answer shaped pages, llms.txt, outside evidence, and measurement. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/seo-audit-deliverables/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/seo-audit-deliverables/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/small-business-schema/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/small-business-schema/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Which schema types a small business needs, which to skip, and example structured data for local businesses, services, FAQs, and breadcrumbs, kept accurate. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/redirect-rules/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/redirect-rules/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/core-web-vitals/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/core-web-vitals/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/correct-ai-answers/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/correct-ai-answers/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/two-names-one-entity/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/two-names-one-entity/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/third-party-proof/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/third-party-proof/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/about-page-ai/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/about-page-ai/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A recipe for an About page that Google and AI assistants quote correctly: current work first, verifiable facts, outside sources, schema, and no guesswork. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/parked-domain-launch/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/parked-domain-launch/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/non-sending-domain/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/non-sending-domain/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/lapsed-domains/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/lapsed-domains/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/llms-txt/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/llms-txt/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/meta-keywords/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/meta-keywords/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/accessible-websites/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/accessible-websites/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Build accessibility into a small business website instead of bolting on an overlay: contrast, headings, links, images, keyboard use, forms, and testing it. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/accessibility-seo-dividends/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/accessibility-seo-dividends/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/lynx-test/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/lynx-test/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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. https://christopherabraham.com/guides/glossary/ https://christopherabraham.com/guides/glossary/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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.