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Studio News10 Oct 20262 min read

Welcome to the new onlyapps.org

A new home for ONLYAPPS: all ten of our apps in one catalog, privacy policies at stable addresses, support by topic and a blog about how we build — in English, Serbian and Russian.

SEO & Growth3 min read

hreflang for a three-language site: how onlyapps.org is set up

One URL per language, hreflang with return links, self-referencing canonicals, sr-Latn for Serbian and 404 instead of a silent English fallback — the rules behind our English, Serbian and Russian pages.

Product2 min read

Blocked in Russia or blocking Russia? How Block Checker tells the difference

Engineering3 min read

One VPS for the whole studio site: Next.js, Go, PostgreSQL and Dokploy

SEO & Growth10 Oct 20263 min read

IndexNow, sitemaps and pings: how to get new pages indexed faster

Search engines listen on different channels. What still speeds up indexing in 2026: IndexNow for Bing and Yandex, accurate sitemaps for Google, and where classic pings fit in.

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