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SynthID for Gemini Images – How does it impact SEO?

geoff — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:44:14 +0000

How much do you know about Google’s invisible watermarking they put on images, text, video, and audio files that Gemini / Vertex AI generates? It’s called SynthID. If you’re using AI in your content / asset generation process, this is probably helpful to understand SynthID (and inherently how invisible watermarking works). Think about this: Why is […]

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How to Setup Hreflang Tags for International SEO

geoff — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:01:49 +0000

What are Hreflang Tags? Hreflang tags are an explicit signal for Google to indicate the location and language of a URL’s intended audience. They can be implemented as a link in the HTML <head>, XML sitemaps, or HTTP header. Google introduced hreflang tags in 2011 to help search engines understand the internationalization of a page – specifically […]

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SEO Bookmarklets

geoff — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:55:49 +0000

There are a lot of SEO tools out there that don’t do anything you couldn’t do on your own, but help you do something more efficiently. This is the category that bookmarklets fall into. Sure, they aren’t giving you added insight, but they make you more efficient! If you want to know what the canonical […]

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Google Analytics Default Channel Definitions for UTM Tagging

geoff — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:08:49 +0000

Google Analytics has predefined “default channel” definitions. You can adjust these definitions to better match your individual situation. For example if you are active on a niche industry site, such as Moz for the SEO industry, you might want this traffic classified as Social rather than referral traffic. You could do this by including a […]

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How to Remove PDFs From Google Search

geoff — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:49:51 +0000

Typically when you want to remove a webpage from Google, you can just add the meta robots noindex tag to the <head> section of the webpage. Once this is done you want to get Google to recrawl the webpage in order to pick up the noindex tag and then remove the page from the index. […]

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How to do Keyword Research

geoff — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:55:16 +0000

What is Keyword Research Keyword research is the process of determining which keywords you should use to rank well. This consists of figuring out the words people type in to Google and consequently what words you need to use. In this post, I’m going to share the process I’ve been using for years to create […]

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What is Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)?

geoff — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:09:53 +0000

Update 2026: AMP was a bad product that only really had an SEO benefit for a few industries, collectively consumed a massive amount of engineering resources. Like many Google products, it was a partial product that was shipped, did not get enough traction or provide enough ROI to Google and was ultimately (rightfully) killed off. […]

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How to Use Wildcards in Robots.txt

geoff — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:02:07 +0000

The robots.txt file is used to control what content search engines are allowed to access on your site. This is great for controlling duplicate content and for directing your crawl budget to your most important pages. It is important to understand that if you you have content that you want to remove from Google’s index, […]

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How to Add the Canonical Tag to HTTP Headers

geoff — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:17:50 +0000

Typically the canonical tag is deployed to the <head> section of a website, ex: <link rel="canonical" href="https://geoffkenyon.com/how-to-add-canonical-tag-to-http-headers"> This works fine for most use cases and there are many plugins for popular CMS platforms to help you do this so that you don’t even need to request any support from your development team to implement the […]

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Framer SEO – For Founders

geoff — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:48:02 +0000

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