Colin McDermott articles - 21 total
Telegram Channel Developer Cheatsheet
Setting Up a Telegram Channel Start: Open Telegram and tap the hamburger menu (≡) or the...
REST API Key Concepts and Requirements
RESTful APIs are a type of web API, which can be understood as a gateway between clients and...
API Rate Limiting Cheat Sheet
Jump to a section: Gateway-level rate limiting Token bucket algorithm Leaky bucket...
RESTful API Design Cheatsheet
RESTful API design is a complex process that involves many factors, including scalability,...
The 9 Key Questions for Google's Helpful Content Update
Google's new AI powered Helpful Content Update is rolling out right now. SEO experts are predicting...
Introduction to Amazon Advertising
Amazon dominates the ecommerce market with over 300 million active users. Amazon has also become the...
How do you know if your ecommerce site is hit by a Google Core Update?
What are Core Updates? Several times a year, we make significant, broad changes to our...
What is Indexifembedded?
What is Indexifembedded? Indexifembedded is a new meta robots value announced by Google in...
Introduction to Sentence-BERT (SBERT)
An introduction to Sentence-BERT by Ozan Yılmaz, an NLP engineer from Germany. This article was...
What is a 308 Permanent Redirect?
What is a 308 Permanent Redirect HTTP response? A 308 Permanent Redirect is a server HTTP...
Ecommerce Navigation SEO Best Practice Guide
SEO is one of the most important channels in ecommerce, so it is vitally important you make your...
What to do if your Development Site gets Indexed in Google
We take a look at what to do if your development/staging/testing site has been indexed in Google,...
Can Google Index Content in CSS Pseudo Elements?
Traditionally when Google (or other search engines) look for text-based content to index - they...
Core Web Vitals Explained by DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert
Google first started incorporating site speed into its rankings back in 2010. A fast website isn't e...
307 Temporary Redirect
Status 307 Temporary Redirect What is a 307 Temporary Redirect HTTP Respons...
451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons
What is a 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons HTTP response? Usage of the 451 HTTP status re...
Google Job Search Developer's Cheat Sheet
Google Job Search, aka Google for Jobs, has been around a couple of years now as the fancy-pants AI p...
Dark Mode Hacks #1: Inverted Images
Building out a #darkmode for your website is actually a whole lot of fun. Along the way you often ha...
Y'all Got Anymore of That Dark Mode? Examples and Inspiration - Websites using Dark Mode Via Prefers-Color-Scheme: Dark
For those of us who value the health of our retinas during those 1am coding sessions (or 24 hours a d...
HREFLang Tags & The Eternal Wait for Implementation - How Devs & SEOs Can Help Each Other
How long should it take to get a relatively simple request "HREFLANG TAGS PLS" implemented via an ext...
Text Based Logo
This week on Search Candy we are testing a text/font based logo, not using an image. https://www.sea...