Platform SEO
SEO guides for specific website platforms and CMS systems.
PrestaShop SEO Settings That Actually Move Rankings
PrestaShop powers a huge slice of European ecommerce, and its SEO controls are better than its reputation suggests — if you know which of the SEO & URLs settings matter and how to keep product combinations from duplicating your catalog.
BigCommerce SEO: What It Gets Right and Where It Slips
BigCommerce ships with some of the best out-of-box SEO in the SaaS ecommerce world — customizable URLs, automatic canonicals, editable robots.txt. But faceted search can quietly multiply your indexable URLs by a factor of fifty. Here's the honest breakdown.
Webflow SEO Setup: Clean Code Isn't the Whole Story
Moving a site from a bloated WordPress build to Webflow can cut page weight dramatically overnight — but Webflow has its own ceilings. Where the platform's clean code genuinely helps, where CMS collection limits bite, and every SEO setting worth configuring.
Drupal SEO: The Modules You Can't Launch Without
Nobody picks Drupal casually — it's the CMS for governments, universities, and catalogs with fifty thousand nodes. Its SEO story is the same as everything else about it: enormously capable, nothing handed to you. The contrib modules that are effectively mandatory, and the caching layer that makes big Drupal sites fast.
Wix SEO in 2026: The Reputation Is Outdated
For years 'Wix can't rank' was received wisdom, and for years it was true — hashbang URLs, no server-side rendering, locked robots.txt. All of that is gone. What Wix fixed, what's still genuinely limited, and the settings that matter now.
Framer SEO: A Designer's Builder That Ranks Surprisingly Well
Framer looks like a design toy and ships like an engineering product: server-rendered HTML, fast global hosting, native redirects. Here's what the platform handles for you, where its young CMS runs out of road, and how to publish schema it won't write for you.
Shopify SEO Guide: Working Around a Locked URL Structure
Shopify forces /products/ and /collections/ into every URL and generates duplicate product pages you can't fully switch off. Here's how canonicals, theme edits, and app discipline keep a Shopify store ranking anyway.
Joomla SEO Checklist: From SEF URLs to sh404SEF
Fresh Joomla installs serve URLs like /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42 — and plenty of live sites still do, because the fix is buried in Global Configuration. The settings to change, the menu-structure quirks to understand, and where extensions earn their keep.
Squarespace SEO: Honest Limits and Smart Workarounds
Squarespace gets the SEO fundamentals right without you touching anything — SSL, sitemaps, clean templates. The catch is everything you can't do. A practical look at where the platform's ceiling sits and how to work within it.
Magento SEO Guide: Taming Adobe Commerce at Scale
Magento can outrank any SaaS platform — or bury itself under a million junk URLs, depending entirely on who configured it. This guide covers the settings, crawl traps, and caching decisions that separate the two outcomes.
Weebly SEO in 2026: Working Within Square's Limits
Weebly still works, still publishes clean pages, and still hasn't shipped a meaningful SEO feature in years. Here's how to squeeze the most from its per-page settings — and how to recognize the moment your site has outgrown the platform.
WordPress SEO: What Plugins Fix and What They Can't
WordPress powers roughly 43% of the web, but a fresh install ranks for nothing. Here's what Yoast and Rank Math actually do, which settings to check first, and why your page builder is probably your biggest SEO problem.
Ghost SEO Without Plugins: A Config-File Approach
Ghost has no plugin store, and that's a feature. SEO essentials — meta fields, sitemaps, canonical tags, clean markup — ship in core, while redirects and URL structure live in config files. How to run a well-optimized Ghost publication, YAML and all.
HubSpot SEO: An Honest Look at Content Hub for Search
HubSpot's Content Hub bundles genuinely useful SEO tooling with fast hosting and CRM integration — at a price that only makes sense for certain businesses. Here's who gets their money's worth and who's paying for features they'll never open.
GoDaddy SEO: How Far the Website Builder Can Take You
GoDaddy's Website Builder can put a clean five-page site online in an afternoon — and that's roughly where its SEO story ends. An honest map of what you can control, what's locked, and the signals that you've outgrown it.