Logo / Icon of the CraftCMS plugin "Archive.org Backups for Craft CMS" - a floppy disc with a building with pillars on the label.

I created a CraftCMS plugin to automatically backup your website to archive.org.

github.com/Abromeit/cra...

Still needs some testing, with multi-site for example, but will be in the CraftCMS store eventually. The idea + submission mechanic is based on an official WordPress plugin by @archive.org

Built something cool with HTML-in-canvas? Go add it to this list which gathers them all in one place.

(Only add the stuff **you** built though, not stuff by other folks)

Finally: Google is taking action against the unnerving Browser Back Button Hijacking. Website owners have time until June 15th to fix this.

www.seo-suedwest.de/10733-google...

10/ You can solve an enormous number of technical problems by taking a walk

Since Wayback Machine crashes my browser:

Here is Archive Accelerator.
A first rough release for macOS.

It lets you view and diff webpage versions from archive.org & live. Also provides a Google Search Console chart with annotated changes for title tag, headlines etc.

github.com/Abromeit/Arc...

Since Wayback Machine crashes my browser:

Here is Archive Accelerator.
A first rough release for macOS.

It lets you view and diff webpage versions from archive.org & live. Also provides a Google Search Console chart with annotated changes for title tag, headlines etc.

github.com/Abromeit/Arc...

Heads up:

The @sistrix.com API silently dropped the device type field from the response for the optimizer.keyword.serps endpoint. (Started somewhere between 2026-02-16 and 2026-02-24.)

Had a lot of fun today.
-> Check your scripts.

The AI SEO Playbook for Google Click Signals How click behavior drives search visibility for websites and brands

New post, and my first on Substack!

"The AI SEO Playbook for Google Click Signals"

How user click signals drive website visibility for both Google rankings and AI answers

What exactly are these click signals, and can marketers influence them?

Read & subscribe: signal.zyppy.com/p/google-cli...

Code snippet demonstrates CSS `@starting-style` for transitioning background color from transparent to green over 1.5 seconds.

🆕 Animate elements from display: none

CSS `@starting-style` lets you define the initial style for elements entering the page, enabling enter animations without JavaScript.

⋅ Combine with transition
⋅ Works with popover and dialog

Learn more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

Google GIST Algorithmus: Warum Unique Content jetzt noch wichtiger ist Mit dem GIST Algorithmus wählt Google Inhalte aus, die hilfreich sind und sich von anderen Inhalten unterscheiden. Reines Kopieren kann zum Ausschluss führen.

Google GIST algorithm: usefulness and uniqueness count. Pro tip: Do not just copy the top ranking pages.

www.seo-suedwest.de/10697-google...

Tool of the Day: "Discover pCTR Predictor"

"Predicts Google Discover click-through rates using a model calibrated against actual SDK telemetry"

Nicely done @metehan777.bsky.social 💪

pctr-discover.pages.dev

70% Proportion of respondents having used lazy loading, the most-used feature among those with the “Newly Available” Baseline status.

Chart of the largest increased features including: lazy loading, srcset and sizes, <details> and <summary>, Content-Security-Policy, <dialog>, Defining Custom Properties with <template>, Shadow DOM, <search>, fetchpriority, details name.

The 2025 State of HTML survey is out

2025.stateofhtml.com

And I love the opening stat — Lazy Loading FTW!

Built-in, simple to use, attributes and elements are HTML's super power. And you can see that reflect in other attributes with the largest increase (details/summary, dialog, fetchpriority!)

Technical SEO tidbit spotted by @rustybrick.com

If you change a robots "noindex" directive to "index" via JavaScript, good chance Google won't ever render the JavaScript after they see the "noindex" in your HTML 🚫

"noindex" in HTML remains noindex

searchengineland.com/google-says-...

Tech SEO Connect 2025: Summary & Takeaways - Lily Ray I had the pleasure of returning to the 2nd annual Tech SEO Connect conference this week in Raleigh, North Carolina.  This time was even more exciting for me because IContinue readingTech SEO Connect 2...

Wow, blown away by the talks at the amazing Tech SEO Connect conference this week.

I took lots of notes (10k words 😅) from all the talks and used AI to summarize the main takeaways, which you can see here:

lilyray.nyc/tech-seo-con...

As it was announced today that Adobe is acquiring Semrush for 1.9B, here are some of the companies that Semrush owns — presumably now owned by Adobe:

Backlinko
Kompyte
Prowly
Traffic Think Tank
Datos
Exploding Topics
Ryte
Search Engine Land
MarTech org
Search Marketing Expo (SMX)
MarTech Conference

Jetzt aber wirklich: Google KI-Modus ist da Der Google KI-Modus ist jetzt auch in Deutschland und dem Rest der EU ausgerollt.

Google AI Mode finally rolled out in EU.

www.seo-suedwest.de/10496-jetzt-...

#seo #google #aimode

New YouTube Brand Pulse report tracks every brand mention YouTube’s new AI-powered report helps advertisers measure their total brand impact across paid and organic videos for the first time.

Measuring brand mentions across YouTube (including logos and shout outs) is a super helpful metric; especially given how frequently YouTube is cited in LLMs

searchengineland.com/youtube-bran...

A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...

OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...

Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.

0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML

NONE

Shared hosting: IONOS is blocking requests to websites from some AI bots from OpenAI / ChatGPT and Anthropic / Claude:

www.seo-suedwest.de/9921-shared-...

#ai #chatgpt #geo #hosting #seo

I just made another small update here, even though it extends the execution time a bit: I added a couple of missing patterns that I pulled from my *.de web index. (Top sitemap paths from ~4 million robots.txt files.)

GitHub - Abromeit/sitemap-finder: XML sitemap discovery for websites in your terminal. XML sitemap discovery for websites in your terminal. - Abromeit/sitemap-finder

I have just released a new script from my archive: Abros Sitemap Finder

Discovers XML/TXT sitemap files on websites. Useful when the sitemap of a third-party site is not linked in the robots.txt file. Battle tested over years, works like a charm.

github.com/Abromeit/sit...

Google's Trust Ranking Patent Shows How User Behavior Is A Signal Google's trust patent describes a system that ranks websites based on user behavior and links from trusted websites.

Google's trust ranking patent shows how Google adopts user behavior as the basis for identifying trustworthy sites. Understanding this patent helps for achieving a better understanding of Google's ranking system priorities.

www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-trus...

Does anyone happen to have a recommendation for a large, straightforwardly formatted dataset of German, English words with frequencies and POS tagging? (wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de is somehow offline.) #NLP

Add link to manual for PHP & WP function hints - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio Code - 🔗📖 | Provides a link to the reference manual, when hovering over a function name or control structure. Knows all functions contained in PHP 8.4 and WordPress 6.8

My VS Code Extension has been updated for the latest PHP (8.4.10) and WordPress (6.8.2) versions.

It provides a link to the official documentation when hovering over function names.

For #VSCode:
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

For #Cursor, #Windsurf & Co:
open-vsx.org/extension/Ab...

Sooo looks like my public Twitter feed is broken forever. Not sure yet if i should switch. 🤔