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Website launch guides

Clear explanations for technical checks that often fail just before a site goes live. Written to help you understand the fix, not just chase a score.

Website Launch Checklist: 25 Checks Before You Publish

A practical pre-launch checklist covering technical SEO, social previews, indexing, security headers, mobile setup and final quality checks.

Understand what title tags and meta descriptions do, common launch mistakes, practical length guidance and how to review them page by page.

A practical guide to robots.txt, crawl directives, sitemap references and mistakes that can accidentally hide a site from search crawlers.

Learn what belongs in an XML sitemap, what to leave out, how to validate it and how sitemaps fit into a launch and indexing workflow.

A focused guide to canonical tags, self-referencing canonicals, migrations, common implementation mistakes and pre-launch testing.

Learn the Open Graph basics, recommended preview fields, image considerations, debugging steps and launch mistakes that produce broken social cards.

Understand HSTS, MIME sniffing protection, referrer policy, permissions policy, framing controls and why headers are only one layer of security.

A practical introduction to CSP, common directives, report-only rollout, third-party scripts and why copying a strict policy can break production.

Learn how JSON-LD describes page entities, how to keep structured data aligned with visible content and how to avoid markup that adds no value.

Check HTTPS properly before a site launch: certificate validity, redirects, mixed content, canonical consistency and HSTS considerations.