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Writing metadata for one page is a solved problem. These are about the other case — a catalogue or an archive nobody is going to hand-optimise — and about what the accessibility standard actually requires.
How to write meta descriptions at scale
Advice written for one page does not survive four thousand. Here is a triage order, a templating approach that avoids duplicates, and how to verify the result without opening every editor screen.
Read guide 8 min readImage alt text: where accessibility and SEO agree, and where they don't
Alt text has one normative definition and a lot of SEO folklore layered on top. The two mostly agree — except on decorative images, where the standard says to write nothing and SEO advice often says otherwise.
Read guide 10 min readYoast indexables: why an SEO title you changed still shows the old one
Yoast keeps a second copy of your SEO metadata and renders from that copy. Which writes keep it in sync, which ones leave it stale, why staging never shows the problem, and the commands that prove and fix it.
Read guide 10 min readRunning two SEO plugins at once: what breaks and which one wins
Two active SEO plugins rarely means one quietly wins. Usually both print their tags. What duplicates, how WordPress decides whose title ends up on the page, a two-minute check, and a clean way back to one plugin.
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