Topic tag · SEO
Crawling, indexing, rendering, canonicals, redirects, robots controls, site migrations, and technical diagnosis.
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Separate a real Google Search decline from GA4 referral noise with one incident card, Search Console segmentation, analytics classification, and independent recovery rules.
Reconcile Search Console clicks, GA4 sessions, funnel events and backend outcomes to find why organic traffic rose while sales fell.
Diagnose a crawler-facing robots.txt failure across DNS, IPv4 and IPv6, TLS, CDN, WAF, redirects, and origin logs instead of trusting one browser request.
Use a 12-point launch gate and a matched-query test to decide whether an AI-assisted tool library creates distinct utility or thin indexable templates.
Choose what to do with an expired event, offer, deadline, or annual page using reader intent, replacement equivalence, historical value, accuracy, and recurring demand.
Compare search, training, user-fetch and advertising crawlers, verify request identity, and configure special-case robots groups correctly.
Migrate Gemini test harnesses after temperature, top_p, and top_k deprecation while preserving model, grounding, citation, latency, and usage evidence.
Test local Business Profile eligibility, ownership, operating facts, website purpose and customer actions with a 30-field downloadable audit.
Validate a Yandex news RSS feed with a 22-point worksheet and a real SearchEngineAnswer feed audit covering access, XML, full text and page parity.
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