by Stephen James Hall | May 25, 2026 | Organic SEO, SEO |
In modern SEO, performance is no longer just a technical concern hiding behind the scenes. It directly affects usability, accessibility, trust, engagement, and how people experience your website in the real world. That is where Core Web Vitals come in. Core Web Vitals...
by Stephen James Hall | May 23, 2026 | Organic SEO, SEO, WordPress SEO |
Originally rooted in older urlmd WordPress SEO notes and expanded for modern SEO, accessibility, internal linking, usability, and long-term content structure.In WordPress, pages are usually the long-term structural content of a website. Unlike blog posts, which are...
by Stephen James Hall | May 23, 2026 | Organic SEO, SEO |
Evergreen Content & SEO: Building Pages That Stay Useful Evergreen content is content designed to remain useful, relevant, and findable over a long period of time. Unlike news posts, temporary announcements, or trend-based articles, evergreen content addresses...
by Stephen James Hall | May 22, 2026 | Organic SEO, SEO |
Keywords still matter in SEO, but they do not work the way many people were taught years ago. A keyword is not magic text that forces a page to rank. A keyword is a signal of what someone is looking for. Modern SEO is less about repeating exact phrases and more about...
by Stephen James Hall | May 20, 2026 | Organic SEO, SEO |
I originally wrote the first version of this article in 2020, when Lighthouse and Google PageSpeed Insights were aggressively encouraging websites to “serve images in next-gen formats.” At the time, WebP support was still uneven across browsers and WordPress did not...
by Stephen James Hall | May 19, 2026 | Organic SEO, SEO |
I originally wrote the first version of this article in 2014. At the time, structured data was still early in mainstream SEO practice. The old examples used microdata, and the original Google Structured Data Testing Tool was still active. Today, I would usually...
