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Guides.

Step by step, with the actual commands and configuration. Written so you can follow them at the terminal.

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Why Your Let’s Encrypt Certificate Expired With Auto-Renew On

A server-level redirect in nginx broke every certbot renewal for months, and the fix is four lines of config plus a two-line deploy hook.

· 11 min read Guide

Getting Past Search Console’s 16-Month Wall

Set up the Search Console bulk export and the GA4 link into BigQuery so search history survives past 16 months and query rows are no longer capped at 1,000.

· 13 min read Guide

Testing a Page the Way Googlebot Smartphone Does

DevTools emulation is a costume, not a phone. This is the test sequence that shows what the mobile crawler is actually served, using curl, a real device and Search Console.

· 5 min read Guide

Multi-Branch Schema Without Eight Separate Identities

How I replaced nine conflicting Organization blocks on a childcare group's site with one entity graph, declared once and referenced by @id everywhere else.

· 16 min read