Publisher guides

Plain-English guides for static-site and publisher readiness.

Use these guides with the free checker to review common technical, content-depth, and trust-page issues on small educational publisher sites.

Guide library

Start with the topic that matches the problem you are reviewing.

The guides are educational only. They do not guarantee search indexing, rankings, AdSense approval, accessibility certification, security, or legal compliance.

Sitemap and Robots Basics

Learn how sitemap.xml and robots.txt support discovery and how broken or mixed URLs cause confusion.

Publisher Page Checklist

Use a practical pre-launch checklist for homepages, articles, tools, trust pages, and technical files.

Related publisher tools

The guide library supports the practical checkers on this site. Start with the complete tool library, then use the individual tools for sitemap checks, robots.txt and ads.txt review, canonical redirects, schema detection, broken links, and page-specific checklists.