Guides/Search & Discovery
Search & Discovery guides
What this platform actually emits for crawl and indexing: Search Console, sitemaps, photo pages for Google Images, IndexNow, noindex, and structured data — not a generic SEO checklist.
- GuideWhat Search Console is forVerification, sitemap.xml, Coverage, and the GSC vs GA4 confusion that wastes the most time.
- GuideGallery grids and photo pages in Google ImagesThe grid isn't the Image Search surface. The photo page is, and it has three conditions.
- ExplainIndexNow, honestlyThe one fact most "instant indexing" posts skip, and why it still earns a place on the margins.
- GuideHide from search, noindex, and privateThe setting still lets the page render a full preview card in Slack or iMessage. Here's why that's correct behavior, not a leak.
- GuideThe structured data this platform emitsMost schema advice is a yes/no checkbox. Structured data is a set of specific blocks for specific jobs, and a deliberate stopping point.
- ExplainLicensable badge vs. IPTCJSON-LD rights travel with the page. IPTC bytes travel with the file. This platform does one of those, on purpose.