Twenty-four of my tags file exactly one post
Across 219 posts I had 88 distinct tags and 24 appeared exactly once. A tag that gathers one item is a label, and labels do not help anybody find things.
seo
10 posts
One of the two links is always missing
A syndicated copy links home immediately; the original links out only after a rebuild. The asymmetry means one direction is reliably broken for a while.
The two fields that only exist in the interface
Two SEO fields have no API path on the platform I syndicate to. That single gap is the reason the pipeline stops at a draft instead of going live.
Syndicate to a 404 and you donate the SEO
A canonical that 404s when the syndicating platform fetches it does not transfer authority. Their copy becomes the original, and the order is the whole fix.
Your meta description is cut mid-sentence
A description clipped to a character limit is severed mid-clause. Writing to fit whole is the fix, and the field you edit may not be the one that ships.
A tag feed is not a list of your posts
A feed returns what it decided to include, not everything that exists. Reading a lower bound as a complete list produces duplicates and false gaps.
The numbers worth watching, and the ones that flatter
Vanity metrics are the easy half. The harder problem is a count whose derivation is wrong, because it reports confidently and nothing contradicts it.
One social card for every post is one card nobody shares
A single site-wide social card passes validation and makes every shared link identical. Per-post cards need generating, verifying, and a scan for the fallback.
An app store is a discovery surface. A website is a building.
A store bundles search, ranking, category and the install action into one surface. On the open web each of those is a thing you build separately.
Your sitemap ping has a daily budget
Search submission APIs meter per day. Submit only what changed, and when the quota runs out, name the URLs that were dropped instead of passing green.