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- Free Meta Tag Generator: SEO, Open Graph, and Twitter Card Tags
Compare meta tag generators (metatags.io, seoptimer, smallseotools) and position WebRecast as the best free alternative with no sign-up, no ads, and instant results.
- What Is SEO? The Basics Read From a Real Indexing Record
Most SEO explainers describe a machine nobody shows you running. This one walks through the crawl, index, and rank pipeline using dates and counts from our own Search Console account for webrecast.com. Every number below came out of a GSC API pull or a Lighthouse run we saved in this repository. Whe
- How to Do Keyword Research With 11 Impressions: The Method We Actually Use
Standard keyword research starts with search volume. On 2026-09-18 our Search Console record for the previous 30 days held 11 impressions and 1 click. There is no volume data to mine in that, and most new sites sit in the same position. This is the method we use instead, built from our own roadmap f
- Backlink Quality: What a Site With Zero Links Learns Earning Its First Twenty
Generic backlink advice is written by sites that already have links. We are writing from the other side: webrecast.com launched with zero external links, and our Search Console record shows exactly what that costs. This guide defines link quality through the plan we built to earn our first 20 to 30
- Local SEO on Google Maps: Measurement Discipline From a Site With No Storefront
We run a global tools site with no physical location, so we cannot hand you a local pack case study. What we can hand you is a fully documented measurement record from Search Console, plus the decisions it forced. Local SEO runs on the same machinery: one canonical profile, pages that earn their pla
- Meta Descriptions and Title Tags: The Length Rules Our Own Site Enforces
Most advice about meta descriptions and title tags quotes character limits that nobody can verify, because search engines rewrite snippets on their own schedule. This article takes the opposite approach. It documents the title and description rules enforced by our own static shell renderer, the code
- Email Marketing Strategies: What Our Own Distribution Numbers Force Us to Test
We published 180 articles. Search Console credited them with 11 impressions and 1 click over the 30 days measured on 2026-09-18. Most email marketing advice opens with a return-on-investment figure that we cannot verify from any log we own, so this article does not repeat it. What we can verify is t
- Social Media Algorithms Explained: What You Can Measure and What Nobody Can
Articles that explain a social feed read like they have seen the source code. They have not. No platform publishes its ranking weights, so every precise-sounding claim about them is reconstruction. We run a website with a 30-day distribution record we can show, and this article uses it to separate w
- Google Search Console Guide: What Four Weeks of API Audits Found
Between 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-24 we ran four scheduled Search Console checks. Each inspected 20 URLs through the URL Inspection API. Zero pages moved into the index across all four runs. This guide documents the workflow that produced those reports, the exact calls, the coverage states we observed,
- Content Marketing Mistakes Our Own Data Caught
We publish on a site that publishes a lot. The numbers above are ours, and they caught us making four content marketing mistakes that every guide warns about in the abstract. The data made them concrete. Here is each mistake with the measurement that exposed it, so you can run the same measurement o
- Google Analytics 4 Setup Guide: Understanding Key Metrics
Google Analytics 4 is the new standard for web measurement. This guide walks through creating a GA4 property, installing tracking, understanding key metrics, setting up conversions, and interpreting reports.
- How to Check Your Google Ranking Without Guesswork
Learn how to check Google rankings, avoid misleading rank checks, and track the keywords that actually matter for SEO decisions.
- Keyword Research vs Keyword Analysis: How to Build a Useful Keyword List
Understand the difference between keyword research and keyword analysis, then turn raw keyword ideas into a content plan that can rank.
- Website Audit Checklist: What to Check Before You Rewrite Content
Use this practical website audit checklist to find technical, on-page, content, and internal linking issues before making SEO changes.
- 11 Impressions and 1 Click in 30 Days: Checking Website Traffic With Numbers You Can Verify
Type "website traffic checker" into search and you get tools that claim to know any domain's visitors. We run a web tools site, we track our own traffic in Google Search Console, and our record for one 30 day window reads 11 impressions and 1 click. That number is exact, because it comes from a prop
- Free Google Rank Checker: Track Your Keyword Positions in 2026
Learn how to check your Google rank for free, avoid personalized-result traps, and track keyword positions with a repeatable process and WebRecast\u2019s free rank checker.
- How to Check Backlinks for Free: Complete Backlink Analysis Guide
Learn what backlinks are, how to check who links to your site for free, and how to judge link quality so you can grow authority without toxic links.
- Free Website SEO Audit: Complete Checklist for 2026
Run a free SEO audit with this complete checklist covering on-page, technical, and content factors, plus how to use a free SEO checker step by step.
- Sitemap lastmod: Why Google Stopped Downloading Ours for Two Months
Google does not promise to read your sitemap. It proved that to us with two months of silence: our sitemap said lastmod August 16, and Search Console still showed "last downloaded July 3". Every page we shipped in that window was invisible to the crawler, and nothing anywhere raised an alarm.
- 15 Languages, One Indexed: The noindex Strategy We Chose and When We Will Reverse It
WebRecast publishes in 15 languages. Google is allowed to index exactly one of them. Every non-English page ships a robots meta tag reading noindex,follow, while the sitemap lists only English URLs.
- Robots.txt Directives Explained: What Our Generator Writes and What It Silently Omits
We built a robots.txt generator and then read its output line by line before trusting it. That audit caught three behaviors that surprise people. The tool starts every new block with an empty Disallow path. It drops the Crawl-delay line whenever the value is 0. Its Block AI preset writes four separa
- Keyword Density Limits: The Reality Behind One Percentage Number
We opened our keyword density analyzer to check where its numbers come from, and the formula hides two decisions that change every result you see. The denominator counts every whitespace separated token in your text. The numerator counts matches after lowercasing, after stripping punctuation, and af
- Site Explorer Recon Workflow: 14 Checks in One Fixed Order
We built a site explorer that answers one question per click, and the useful part turned out to be the order of the clicks. The tool places 14 links on one page, grouped into search engines, archives and WHOIS, and performance. Run in the wrong order, the checks waste time, because a DNS or SSL prob
- Traffic Overview Snapshot Method: One Month, Seven Columns, One Honest Rule
We track our own traffic as monthly snapshots, and the recording method matters more than the dashboard. Our traffic overview tool stores one row per month with seven columns, refuses to show a trend when it has no valid baseline, and replaces a month on resubmission instead of keeping both. Each of
- AI Search Visibility Checks: What the 16 Item Score Measures
The score on our AI search visibility checker climbs when you tick boxes, and that is the whole mechanism. It never queries ChatGPT, never counts citations, and never sees your traffic. It is a self audit with fixed arithmetic, and it helps only when you know what the 16 checks weigh and what they i
