Nine newsletter platforms compared, cost to ownership.
Newsletter platforms split into thin email senders and full publishing systems with archives and memberships. That split decides hosting, SEO, and migration more than any editor does.
Push URL updates to search engines after deploy.
Static sites and blogs change whenever you deploy. Search engines that support IndexNow can learn about those changes without waiting for the next blind crawl.
Publish, deploy, index, and run mail on your domain.
Web infrastructure here means the systems that make publishing work on the open web. Static builds, object storage, CDN behavior, DNS for mail and verification, and indexing signals (sitemaps plus push protocols like IndexNow) sit in one cluster so you can ship fast, stay correct, and avoid reinventing SMTP or search engine plumbing.
Boost SEO with breadcrumb schema and structured data
Breadcrumb navigation combined with proper schema markup is one of the most effective yet underutilized SEO techniques that can significantly improve your website’s search visibility and user experience.
Optimize developing and running Hugo sites
Hugo caching strategies are essential for maximizing the performance of your static site generator. While Hugo generates static files that are inherently fast, implementing proper caching at multiple layers can dramatically improve build times, reduce server load, and enhance user experience.
Own your content and control your identity
The web was originally designed as a decentralized network where anyone could publish and connect. Over time, corporate platforms consolidated control, creating walled gardens where users are products and content is locked in. The Indie Web movement aims to restore the original promise of the web: personal ownership, creative freedom, and genuine connection.
Approximate hosting cost estimations vs subscription.
Here’s a quick info on Write.as / WriteFreely - how it fits into the fediverse, where to get managed hosting, what the usage trend looks like, and how to self-host (plus rough costings).
What to do with `canonical`, `lang` and `hreflang`
Translating your Hugo website can improve your Google and Bing ranking - but only if the translated content is high quality, localized, and properly structured for multilingual SEO.
Howto add opengraph metadata to hugo?
Opengraph image metadata
is the meta property og:image.
Basically, we want correctly generated tag <meta property="og:image" content="https://....jpg"> for each page in our hugo-based website.
Which web analytics systems to use on your website?
Let’s have a quick look at Matomo, Plausible, google and other web analytics providers and systems available for self-hosting and compare them.
