The latest articles on DEV Community by mihai (@mpowebstudio). https://dev.to/mpowebstudio https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4035727%2F9040f54b-8686-4769-9c62-af7ff63f02ee.PNG https://dev.to/mpowebstudio en mihai Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:59:34 +0000 https://dev.to/mpowebstudio/how-we-took-a-young-multilingual-site-to-a-100100-ahrefs-health-score-nextjs-34lj https://dev.to/mpowebstudio/how-we-took-a-young-multilingual-site-to-a-100100-ahrefs-health-score-nextjs-34lj <p>Last week our agency site hit a 100/100 "Health Score" with 0 errors on Ahrefs' Site Audit — on a domain that's only a couple of months old. Here's exactly what we did, in case it helps someone else building on Next.js.</p> <h2> The stack </h2> <p>Next.js (App Router), fully static where possible, deployed on Vercel. ~1,000 articles across 6 languages, generated at build time. No CMS bloat — content lives in typed data files, so every page is fast and crawlable.</p> <h2> What actually moved the needle </h2> <p><strong>1. Real structured data, not decoration.</strong><br> One interlinked <code>@graph</code> (Organization + WebSite) defined once, referenced by every page. Each page adds <code>BreadcrumbList</code>, and content pages add <code>BlogPosting</code> / <code>FAQPage</code>. Clean, valid, no orphan nodes.</p> <p><strong>2. hreflang done right.</strong><br> 6 locales, each page enumerates its live siblings + <code>x-default</code>. We generate every locale's static params so internal links never 404 — and gate not-yet-live locales with <code>robots: { index: false, follow: true }</code> instead of breaking the graph.</p> <p><strong>3. Core Web Vitals as a hard rule.</strong><br> The LCP heading is static — we skip hero animations because they cost ~12–15 mobile PageSpeed points. Images are all sized + have alt text (Ahrefs flagged 0 missing).</p> <p><strong>4. Internal linking as a system.</strong><br> Every article links to a few topical siblings + the money pages, with keyword anchors. Result: 0 orphan pages, PageRank flows to the pages that matter.</p> <p><strong>5. Multi-engine indexing with IndexNow.</strong><br> A daily GitHub Action diffs the live sitemap vs a state file and pings only <em>new</em> URLs to Bing / Yahoo / DuckDuckGo / Yandex / Seznam. New pages get indexed in hours, not weeks. (Google doesn't use IndexNow — that's still sitemap + crawl.)</p> <p><strong>6. Freshness signals.</strong><br> <code>dateModified</code> + sitemap <code>&lt;lastmod&gt;</code> update whenever content actually changes, and we surface an "updated" date on-page.</p> <h2> The honest part </h2> <p>Technical SEO gets you <em>eligible</em> to rank — it doesn't rank you. Our Domain Rating is still 0; authority (real backlinks) is the slow part. But a clean, fast, well-structured site means every bit of authority we earn converts faster.</p> <p>I run <a href="https://mpowebstudio.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">MPO Web Studio</a> — we build fast, custom-coded sites. Happy to answer any Next.js/SEO questions in the comments.</p> webdev seo nextjs performance