How to Add a Blog Post

1. Create the file

Add a new file inside the _posts/ folder. The filename must follow this exact format:

YYYY-MM-DD-your-post-slug.md

Example:

_posts/2026-03-20-google-search-console-guide.md

2. Add the front matter

Every post must start with a front matter block between --- lines.

---
layout: post
title: "Your Post Title Here"
date: 2026-03-20
categories: [SEO, Technical]
tags:
  - google search console
  - site audit
  - technical seo
description: "One or two sentence description for Google search results."
author: ebiyaSG
permalink: /your-post-slug/
---

Field reference

Field	Required	Notes
`layout`	Yes	Always `post`
`title`	Yes	Shown on the blog list and in the browser tab
`date`	Yes	Must match the date in the filename
`categories`	No	Array — shown as pills on the blog listing
`tags`	No	Used for SEO and future filtering
`description`	Yes	Used as the meta description for Google
`author`	No	Defaults to site author if omitted
`permalink`	No	Custom URL — omit to use the default (`/YYYY/MM/DD/slug/`)

3. Write the content

Below the closing ---, write your post in Markdown.

---
layout: post
title: "How to Fix Crawl Errors in Google Search Console"
date: 2026-03-20
categories: [SEO, Technical]
description: "Step-by-step guide to finding and fixing crawl errors in Google Search Console for Singapore businesses."
author: ebiyaSG
permalink: /fix-crawl-errors-google-search-console/
---

## Introduction

Your intro paragraph here...

## Section One

Content here...

4. The post appears automatically

Save the file. Jekyll picks it up automatically — no other files need to be edited. The post will appear on the /blog/ page sorted by date (newest first).

Tips

Excerpt: The blog listing shows the first ~35 words as the excerpt. Write a strong opening sentence — it shows as the preview.
Slug: Keep the filename slug short and keyword-rich (e.g. seo-audit-singapore not how-to-do-a-seo-audit-for-your-singapore-website).
Images: Store images in assets/images/ and reference them in the post as /assets/images/your-image.jpg.
Date: If the date in the filename is in the future, Jekyll will not publish the post until that date (or until you add future: true to _config.yml).