SEO

7 articles on SEO — programs, tooling, and delivery on Petralian.

Getting to Lighthouse 100 on Next.js 16: Every Fix That Actually Mattered
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Getting to Lighthouse 100 on Next.js 16: Every Fix That Actually Mattered

Best forDevelopers chasing Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores on a Next.js site

A complete walkthrough of every Lighthouse bottleneck on a Next.js 16 Vercel site — TBT from 3,020ms to 20ms, LCP from 3.0s to 1.7s — including the config options that don't exist in Next.js 16 and will silently break your build.

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Building petralian.com: The Technical Reality
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Building petralian.com: The Technical Reality

Best forBuilders curious how this site is wired — Obsidian, sync, and Next.js in practice

The why was clean. The how had corners. A ground-level account of building petralian.com — the masonry layout that fought back, a 404 page with a working Asteroids game, the TinaCMS newline problem nobody warns you about, and how AI wrote most of it.

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CSS Masonry Grids and Reading Order: What column-count Gets Wrong, and How to Fix It
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CSS Masonry Grids and Reading Order: What column-count Gets Wrong, and How to Fix It

Best forFront-end developers fixing masonry layout and screen-reader reading order

CSS column-count creates a masonry layout in one line. It also silently breaks left-to-right reading order. Here is what is actually happening in the DOM, and a reliable fix that holds up under variable card heights.

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Why I Rebuilt Petralian on Next.js (And Open Sourced It)
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Why I Rebuilt Petralian on Next.js (And Open Sourced It)

Best forDevelopers weighing a Next.js rebuild for content, SEO, and shipping speed

WordPress was slowing down the actual writing. Here's why I rebuilt petralian.com on Next.js, how Obsidian now sits at the center of my publishing workflow, and why I decided to open source the whole thing.

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The AI Revolution: How LLMs Are Reshaping Search and the Future of SEO
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The AI Revolution: How LLMs Are Reshaping Search and the Future of SEO

Best forMarketers and SEO practitioners planning for LLM-shaped discovery

How large language models are reshaping search discovery—and what still matters in technical SEO for answer engines and classic rankings.

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Mastering AI Prompting Frameworks for Marketers: Transforming Campaigns with Precision and the Right AI Tools
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Mastering AI Prompting Frameworks for Marketers: Transforming Campaigns with Precision and the Right AI Tools

Best forMarketers moving from ad-hoc prompts to repeatable campaign frameworks

TL;DR What Mastering AI Prompting Frameworks for Marketers: Transforming Campaigns with Pre covers. Who it is for and when to use it. Practical next steps…

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Best Practices for Founders: Integrating AI and SEO for Effective Digital Campaign Management
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Best Practices for Founders: Integrating AI and SEO for Effective Digital Campaign Management

Best forFounders and marketers balancing AI-assisted content with durable search visibility

Unlock the potential of AI and SEO integration to elevate your digital campaigns. Discover how combining these innovative strategies can enhance search engine rankings, personalize content, and automate tasks, driving substantial growth for your business.

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