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How CMS Implementations Need to Change for GEO and AEO
Search is changing. AI systems are increasingly the first point of contact between your content and your audience, and they don't behave like traditional search crawlers. If your CMS implementation was built purely with SEO in mind, it probably isn't...
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Tue, 17th Mar 26
Default Values in Contentful
Finally default values have been added as an option in Content Models in the Contentful CMS
1 Minute Read
Wed, 8th Sept 21
New site for Wife of a Geek
Also built on Contentful and Azure Cognitive Search
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Fri, 23rd Jul 21
How to open rich text links in a new tab in Contentful.net
Contentful doesn't have an option to choose a target for links in a rich text field (yet), so for now I assume that external links should be opened in a new tab. This is achieved with an IContentRenderer.
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Thu, 22nd Jul 21
Improving Contentful Search with Azure Cognitive Search
Contentful does have some basic search functionality, but it is quite limited and quite difficult to implement (at least in .net). So leveraging Contentful webhooks I decided to index the data into Azure Cognitive Search service.
3 Minute Read
Tue, 15th Jun 21
Tagging in Contentful
Contentful have recently introduced tagging, I think this is a really important step forward for the headless CMS.
2 Minute Read
Tue, 20th Apr 21
Mediator Design Pattern for CMS builds
My approach to dynamic CMS content using Mediatr (and Automapper)
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Fri, 19th Feb 21