Brain Dumps

Duplicate title tags come in two flavours — two elements on one page fighting each other, or the same title copied across dozens of pages. Both hurt rankings. Here's how to find them and fix them for good.

The real signs of AI writing — delve, em-dash clusters, rule-of-three, copula avoidance — plus the AI-code tells nobody talks about, and how to score and fix text.

Google's June 2026 update calls llms.txt 'fine' to use — but says it won't help (or hurt) Search. Ahrefs found 97% of llms.txt files get zero bot requests. The real story.

By mid-2025, ~35% of new websites were AI-generated. But the data on whether everything 'looks the same' is more surprising than the meme. Here's what's real and what isn't.

1200x630 px, 1.91:1 ratio — that's the baseline. But the safe zone, the file-size ceiling, and the width/height attributes crawlers need are what most guides skip. Here's all of it.

You updated your og:image, you reshared the link, and it still shows the old card. Here's what's actually happening — and the exact steps to fix it.

A practical checklist for spotting AI-generated websites — the visual tells, the dead giveaways in the code, and how to confirm it by measuring the page instead of guessing.

Open Graph tags are the four lines in your that control how your link looks when someone shares it. Here's what each one does, the mistakes that break previews, and the minimum block every page needs.

AI-built sites are purple because of one default color in Tailwind UI that saturated AI training data — then fed back on itself. Here's the full chain, and how to break it.

What AI design slop is, why AI tools keep defaulting to the same purple-gradient, glass-card, low-contrast UI, what the data actually says about web homogenization, and how to catch it before it ships.

The internal link audit is one of the most valuable SEO tasks nobody does — because doing it by hand on a 100-page site takes a day. Here's the 50-line Python script + Claude prompt combo that runs it in 4 minutes.

Most meta-tag advice is either a decade out of date or a copy-paste list with no opinions. Here's what actually moves rankings and link previews in 2026 — and what to stop wasting time on.