SEO Blog Posts - SEO From a Developer's Desk

When you render content from a CMS like WordPress, the images might arrive as bare <img src="..." alt="..."> tags - no srcset, no lazy loading, no WebP. Next.js cannot touch them automatically because they live inside a raw HTML string, not a React component tree. This post shows how to use Next.js's getImageProps to inject proper srcset, WebP conversion, lazy loading, and responsive sizing into every image before it ever reaches the browser.

IndexNow is a free, open protocol that lets you push URL changes directly to participating search engines - no waiting for crawlers. In this post I walk through what it is, which engines actually support it, when it's worth using, and how to submit pages via the API. I'll also share a script that parses your sitemap and submits everything in one bulk request, plus the tools I reach for to keep submissions running automatically.