Coding for SEO Blog

If an unknown app named 'Nightly' asks for Mac notification settings, here's how to find it.

Here are some quick basics about the difference between .mjs, .cjs, and .js file extensions in Node.js.

How to send bulk 301/308 redirects and other headers in NGINX.

It's easy to add a delay to a JavaScript loop using modern JS techniques.

It's easy to scrape Web pages with Node.js and Cheerio. In this tutorial, we'll scrape the latest news headlines from the NY Times.

It's easy to download entire websites with a free tool called Wget.

Here's a quick tutorial on how to use the Keywords Everywhere API with Python.

Cloudflare Pages makes it easy to redirect entire domains in an SEO-friendly way. This tutorial shows how.

Google sent out an email that recommends using Bard to generate AI content for blog posts.

You don't need to learn how to code to do SEO, but it will make you a much better SEO.

There's an easy way to check backlink data for free, using Bing's Webmaster Tools. It's free and only takes a few minutes to sign up.

Here's an easy way to only show filenames when using the git diff command. You can use a special flag that allows you to display the output differently.

Vim has commands that let you open multiple files in splits and tabs.

How to fix an SEO problem with WordPress's comment settings.

Here's an easy way to evaluate the quality of your website's content.

I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about the upcoming demise of Google Analytics' Universal Analytics.

Here's a quick way to list all of the plugin outlets in Discourse (forum software).

Oh SEO, how doth thy algorithms sway The fates of websites in their endless play For ranking high doth bring both fame and wealth But failing to adapt brings certain stealth...

Installing Node.js is easy to install when you use nvm. Don't use sudo with npm!

You don't need a Google Sheets Cheatsheet

The strike element has been deprecated, but there are two other options.

How to search multiple files for text and edit them in Vim.

How to use the ping command on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

The dig command can be used to look up information about the Domain Name System.

Learn how to install Python on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

This tutorial explains how to install the Ruby programming language on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

For an ideal work experience in Web development and SEO, be sure to change your browser settings to show full URLs.

This post describes how to use a free program called curl for testing headers for web development and SEO purposes.

This tutorial shows how you can use the Lynx browser in a quick shell script to check for broken links.

There is an easy way to print out an ISO-formatted date in a Linux, Mac, or WSL (Windows) terminal.

This is how I set up most of my coding projects.

Lynx browser can be used to extract all the text and links from a webpage.

Here's a simple trick for quickly scraping web pages from the browser console.

Here's an easy way to redirect WWW to no-WWW (or vice versa) in Next.js.

This post explains how to add canonical tags to your Next.js site for better SEO.

WordPress: How to Add a Trailing Slash to the Homepage's Canonical URL

Watch Udacity's CS 253 Web Application Engineering course, taught by Steve Huffman, on YouTube.

How to handle build secrets on Fly.io when you get an error about 'Environment variable not found: DATABASE_URL.'

It's easy to remove Hebrew vowel symbols (nekudot) from Hebrew text using JavaScript, Python, or any programming language.

How to send desktop notifications in GNU/Linux.

Here's a technique to quickly scrape HTML tables with Pandas and Python.

An experiment with using ex to edit files.

Experimenting with ed and ex to edit text.

Here's an easy way to delete all blank lines from a file in Vim.

Here's an easy way to reindent all lines in the current directory using Vim.

How to Generate Gravatar Images with JavaScript/Node

How to extract the content out of a WordPress database using SQL queries.

Here's how to fix the 'Alpine Expression Error' problem that sometimes appears when using Alpine.js.