McGarrah Technical Blog

Managing Multiple Jekyll Sites Under One Domain: Sitemap Challenges

· 10 min read
How to handle sitemap.xml generation when running multiple Jekyll sites under a single custom domain on GitHub Pages — and why it matters for AdSense approval.

Your Jekyll Theme Is Probably Missing head and body Tags

· 7 min read
Many Jekyll themes — especially minimal forks — ship without proper head and body tags. Browsers don't care. Bots do. Here's how to check and fix it in five minutes.

Your Jekyll Sitemap Is 60% Garbage

· 11 min read
I audited my Jekyll sitemap and found that 262 of 434 URLs were auto-generated tag pages, category pages, and pagination — most with a single post. Here's how to clean it up without losing anything.

Fixing AdSense Verification Without Breaking GDPR: The Script Loading Mistake

· 8 min read
My GDPR implementation was too aggressive — it hid the AdSense script from Google's verification bot. Here's how I separated verification from ad serving while keeping GDPR compliance intact.

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