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Field notes on CMS architecture, SEO methodology, and the MarTech decisions that quietly make or break a build.

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The Replatform Risk Checklist →

The pre-migration checks I run before any replatform, so the cutover compounds your rankings instead of erasing them.

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Websites and membership platforms nonprofits run on →

Membership, donations, events, and member portals you own - with real launched proof for AAMA, six Urban League chapters, and more.

June 13, 2026 SEO

Technical SEO Audit: What Actually Moves Rankings

A working technical SEO audit is mostly about deciding what to ignore. This is a practitioner's prioritized checklist of the fixes that actually move rankings for nonprofit and association sites, and the busywork to skip.

June 13, 2026 SEO

SEO for Nonprofits That Drives Members and Donors

A practical SEO strategy for nonprofits and associations: rank for what future members and donors actually search, earn links with program and impact pages, win local and chapter search, and protect your rankings through a replatform.

June 13, 2026 Conversion

Nonprofit Conversion Rate Optimization, Done Honestly

The honest version of conversion rate optimization for nonprofits: turn website visitors into donors and members through clarity, trust, and less friction, with no dark patterns.

June 13, 2026 Performance

Core Web Vitals for Nonprofits: Why a Slow Site Costs You Donors

Site speed is not vanity - it is donations and rankings. A plain-English guide to Core Web Vitals for mission-driven teams, from someone who tunes them.

June 12, 2026 Architecture

Nonprofit Membership Platform: Build vs. Buy?

Build-vs-buy is the wrong frame. The real decision is rent-vs-own, and it turns on whether off-the-shelf software still fits how your organization works. A field guide from someone who builds the custom side.

April 12, 2026 MarTech

Auditing 3,489 Pages of MarTech Infrastructure with Playwright

Standard crawlers cannot get past OneTrust banners or catch lazy-loaded Pardot forms. Here is a Playwright-based MarTech audit methodology that walked 3,489 pages and inventoried 511 unique forms.

April 12, 2026 Architecture

Why I Stopped Using WordPress for Everything (And When I Still Use It)

For a decade I built everything in WordPress. Now I reach for modern stacks first. Here is the three-question framework I use, and a case where WordPress was still the right call.

April 12, 2026 Architecture

Building an Awards Platform from Zero: Pulse Awards Architecture

Every awards platform on the market is either a bloated enterprise tool or a glorified Google Form. Here is how the Pulse Awards stack shipped the middle path.

April 12, 2026 SEO

How I Scored 436 Pages for a Domain Migration

Most domain migrations lose traffic because teams redirect the wrong pages. Here is the scoring model that tells you which to migrate, which to review, and which to redirect, with the exact formula.

April 12, 2026 Architecture

CMS Architecture for Multi-Language Enterprises

The hardest decision in multi-language CMS is not which platform. It is how collections, locales, and editorial workflows interact. Here is the decision tree I used on an enterprise multi-language rebuild.

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