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Fix the SEO defects of the relaunched site - #125
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GitHub Pages serves every location with a trailing slash and redirects the slash-less form, so canonical tags, hreflang links, the site map and the internal links all pointed one 301 away from the page they named. They now share `canonicalURL(for:)` and `Path.directoryPath`. - hreflang links are absolute, which Google requires, and add `x-default` - the site map lists both home pages, which Publish's own generator omits - no page per FAQ answer: the answers are published in full on `/faq`, and the extra pages duplicated them where nothing linked to them - `robots.txt` points to the site map instead of Cloudflare's comment-only default - the application schema is limited to the home pages - the screenshot reserves its space, so the section below it no longer jumps
The home pages carried the 25-character claim as their meta description, in English on both, and the legal pages shared one boilerplate line. Dropping the front-matter override lets the longer, translated fallback apply. The home `<title>` is the line people read in a result list, so it names what they search for. The hero claim on the page itself is unchanged.
The English title lists both platforms; the German one stopped at the Mac, while the app and the page below it cover the iPhone just as much.
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Findings from an audit of the live site after the Publish migration. The audit report follows separately — this branch carries the fixes.
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hreflang, the site map and every internal link now use the trailing-slash URL GitHub Pages actually serves, instead of the form it redirectshreflanglinks are absolute — Google ignores relative ones, so the language pairing was not working at all — and declarex-defaultrobots.txtnames the site map, replacing Cloudflare's comment-only defaultContent
/faq, and the 46 extra pages repeated them at 31–150 words each, unlinked from anywhere, sharing one meta description<title>names what people search for; the hero claim on the page is unchangedRendering