Practical guides for sitemaps, meta tags, robots.txt, Domain Rating, and free site audits.
Robots · 2026-07-15
Learn where robots.txt lives, how to read User-agent, Allow, and Disallow rules, and how to confirm Sitemap directives — without accidentally blocking crawl access.
5 min read
Metadata · 2026-07-15
Learn how to check title tags, meta descriptions, and Open Graph social previews before you publish so Google and social snippets look right — with a free meta tags checker.
5 min read
Sitemap · 2026-07-15
Learn how to validate sitemap.xml and sitemap indexes, expand nested child sitemaps, spot missing URLs, and copy every page URL with a free XML sitemap checker.
6 min read
Domain Rating · 2026-07-15
Domain Rating (DR) explained in plain language: what the Ahrefs score measures, why it matters for SEO, and how to look up DR for any domain free without a paid subscription.
6 min read
Site Audit · 2026-07-15
Learn what a free technical SEO audit should check — robots.txt, XML sitemaps, meta tags, security headers, and Ahrefs Domain Rating — plus how to prioritize and fix issues fast.
7 min read