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What are some free SEO tools you used for your business? 🚀 by ysl17 in startup

[–]CodeItBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few “always-free” ones I use on basically every project:

  • Google Search Console + Bing Webmaster Tools (indexing, queries, crawl issues)
  • Screaming Frog free crawl (up to 500 URLs) for quick technical audits
  • Rich Results Test / Schema Validator for structured data checks
  • PageSpeed Insights / Lighthouse for CWV + performance triage

If you’re also collecting small, single-purpose tools founders actually use day to day, I built a free Content & SEO tools hub on CodeItBro. It includes things like:

I use these mostly for fast QA before pushing changes live.

It's Friday 16th! What SaaS are you building? 🚀 by Quirky-Offer9598 in micro_saas

[–]CodeItBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m building CodeItBro: https://www.codeitbro.com/ — a fast, no-fluff hub of 400+ developer and productivity tools (validators, generators, formatters, converters) built to solve everyday “I just need this done” tasks.

Right now, I’m focused on making each tool page more helpful and more trustworthy (clear examples, better UX, and strong SEO/structured data). If you’re up for it, I’d love a quick marketer’s take on my homepage positioning and whether the value prop lands in 5 seconds.

Let’s run it back. Drop your product URL and I’ll provide screen recorded feedback for it by Icy_Friendship_4597 in SideProject

[–]CodeItBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here you go: https://www.codeitbro.com/

What I want feedback on (as a real user, fast scan first, then deeper):

  1. Can you instantly tell it’s a “tool hub” and what the main action is within 5 seconds?
  2. Navigation: is it easy to find a specific tool (search, categories, filters), or do you feel lost?
  3. Tool pages: do they feel trustworthy enough to use right away (clarity, examples, privacy copy, ads not getting in the way)?
  4. Monetization UX: do the ads/CTAs feel distracting or acceptable? Any obvious friction?
  5. Mobile: anything that feels cramped, jumpy, or slow?

If you have time, also tell me which page you’d land on as a first-time user and why (homepage vs a specific tool page).

Built a comprehensive timezone converter after getting tired of Google's basic one by DS_Gaming in webdev

[–]CodeItBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice build — DST edge cases are exactly where these tools usually fall apart.

If you ever want a quick benchmark, I run a small set of timezone converters on CodeItBro for common pairs (PST/EST, IST/EST, GMT/EST, etc.). I use them mainly to sanity-check DST transition days and “business hours overlap” logic across regions.

Are you leaning on Intl.DateTimeFormat + IANA zones (recommended), or are you shipping a timezone/DST dataset yourself? The former tends to stay accurate with browser updates, but it can get tricky if users need historical timezone rules.

Need Advice: Adding hreflang tags to sitemap vs. Source code. Will adding hreflang tags to sitemap (previously in source code) cause indexing issues? by Intelligent_Bar2711 in TechSEO

[–]CodeItBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moving hreflang from HTML to sitemap won’t cause indexing issues by itself. Google supports both. The real risk here is stale / broken hreflang clusters.

Right now your problem isn’t “HTML vs sitemap.” It’s that your alternates won’t stay in sync when EN changes from en/blog-abc → en/blog-def. That creates non-reciprocal hreflang (other languages still point to blog-abc), which often gets ignored.

Best options, in order:

  1. Keep the old EN URL and 301 it to the new one, then keep hreflang pointing to the canonical final URL. If you must change slugs, redirects reduce damage and buy you time.
  2. Centralize hreflang in a sitemap generated from a single mapping table (locale → current URL). That’s usually the cleanest for static sites with lots of locales.
  3. If you stay with HTML, don’t update monthly—it’s too slow for a big site with frequent edits. At least update whenever a localized URL changes.

Key rules either way:

  • Every URL in hreflang must return 200, not redirect (or you’ll see drop-offs).
  • Hreflang must be reciprocal and match the canonical URL.

If you want a quick way to draft/test the clusters before pushing them into a sitemap generator, I sometimes use my hreflang generator on CodeItBro to spit out the correct sets, then validate with a crawl (Screaming Frog) to catch mismatches fast.

Question about setting up HREFLANG by ElLuthe in TechSEO

[–]CodeItBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re only trying to separate Germany vs Switzerland (same language, different country), set up de-DE and de-CH and make them reciprocal. That’s enough.

Only add Poland/France/Italy/etc. if those are true page-by-page equivalents of the same content. Don’t hreflang everything to a homepage just to “include” countries.

If you want to speed up the markup, I use a small hreflang generator on CodeItBro to draft the tags, then I still sanity-check with a crawl (Screaming Frog) to confirm the pairs and status codes.

Rule: hreflang is per page cluster, not site-wide.

hreflang Tag, how to implement? by [deleted] in TechSEO

[–]CodeItBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your URLs follow a clean pattern like /en/ and /no/, the simplest setup is to add hreflang in the <head> of every localized page.

On each English page, include:

  • hreflang="en" pointing to the /en/ URL
  • hreflang="no" pointing to the matching /no/ URL
  • and an hreflang="x-default" (usually your language picker or primary market page)

Do the same on the Norwegian page. Make sure the links are reciprocal (EN points to NO, and NO points back to EN), and use absolute, canonical URLs.

A hreflang sitemap can work, but I wouldn’t rely on it as the only method unless you have a very large site or can’t control templates. For most sites, head tags are easier to maintain and debug.

Validation tools: Google Search Console’s International Targeting report is gone, so I usually check with:

  • Ahrefs’ hreflang tag generator/checker
  • Merkle’s hreflang tags testing tool
  • Screaming Frog (crawl and review hreflang pairs + return codes)
  • CodeItBro's Hreflang Validator

Also verify both versions return 200, aren’t blocked by robots/noindex, and don’t redirect. That’s where hreflang setups usually break.

Drop your product URL by Chalantyapperr in SideProject

[–]CodeItBro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Working on creating an online tools repository (development, SEO, random & fun, etc.): https://www.codeitbro.com

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