Technical SEO for developers: the checklist you should run before your site goes live (opens in new tab)

Building a technically sound site is the developer's responsibility. What happens to that site's visibility after launch in traditional search, in AI-generated answers, and across the broader web is where growing businesses lose momentum. Technical SEO failures at launch are the result of no one explicitly owning the bridge between engineering and search. This checklist is for developers who want to close that gap before going live. Today, search isn't just Google crawling your pages and rank...