Crawled — Currently Not Indexed After a URL-Prefix Migration: A Diagnostic Matrix
A URL-prefix removal can expose redirect, canonical, sitemap, internal-link, and content-equivalence failures. Diagnose the migration before blaming an update.
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Article and ProfilePage Markup: Build One Verifiable Author Identity Chain
Connect visible bylines, Article author entities, ProfilePage markup, and external identity links without creating conflicting author records.
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Cloudflare Redirects for AI Training: Test Canonicals Before Turning 301s On
Cloudflare can redirect verified AI training crawlers to a same-origin canonical URL. Test the first 256 KB, redirect order, logs, and rollback before enabling it.
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Google-InspectionTool User-Agent Correction: Audit Exact-Match WAF Rules
Google corrected an erroneous semicolon in its Google-InspectionTool user-agent documentation. Audit copied exact-match WAF and parser rules.
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Cloudflare Crawl-to-Referral Ratios: A Defensible Audit Method
Interpret Cloudflare crawl-to-referral ratios with corrected product chronology, raw counts, zero-denominator rules, classification evidence, policy controls, and a reusable ledger.
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Schema.org 30.0 Is Not a Google Rich Result Update
Schema.org 30.0 expanded the vocabulary, but a vocabulary release does not automatically create Google rich-result support. Audit the two layers separately.
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Google-GeminiNotebook Replaced Google-NotebookLM: Update Log Parsers Without Losing History
Google renamed the NotebookLM crawler token. Update exact-match rules and analytics without splitting one crawler into two histories.
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How to Test Whether a Public ChatGPT Site Is Indexable
OpenAI allows eligible users to publish ChatGPT Sites publicly, but public access is not proof of indexability. Use this controlled technical audit before reporting results.
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Cloudflare Pay Per Use: Build a 31-Field Pilot Ledger
Separate Cloudflare’s experimental Pay Per Use partner models from live controls, then reconcile reported uses, rights, deductions, payouts and rollback evidence.
