SEO

I have generally been very happy about moving my blog to Hugo, except that I have struggled with getting it properly indexed with Google, Bing, etc. One of the benefits of using standard WordPress is that it comes with a lot of automatic functions for such things. In theory, that should also happen with Hugo. However, for some reason, my blog did not work. After various trials and errors, I think I am getting on the right track. However, one things was missing: content in the meta description part of the blog. I have added a generic meta description for the whole blog, but all SEO (Search Engine Optimization) pages say that you need hand-crafted 155-long descriptions for a page. I can do that moving forward, but not with the 1500+ previous blog posts. ...

I am still in the process of transitioning my blog from WordPress to Hugo. The content has been moved, but I see that WordPress has created quite a mess of files. Here’s a simple way to identify and remove unused images using a few command-line tools. 1. Find All Used Images in Your Content First, extract all image references from your Markdown files. This command searches for Markdown image links and outputs a sorted, unique list: ...