SEO remediation: canonical host redirect, noindex thin compare pages, sitemap lastmod#15
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- 301 www.unclouded.app and plain-http to https://unclouded.app (Google was indexing www duplicates; canonical tags alone are only a hint) - 301 trailing-slash normalization instead of the router's 307 - X-Robots-Tag: noindex on /compare/ pages and 410 the comparisons sitemap: 25k thin auto-generated pages triggered site-wide quality suppression (GSC: 9.6k 'Crawled - currently not indexed', 5 pages left indexed by mid-May) - remove Crawl-delay from robots.txt (ignored by Google, throttles Bing) - add <lastmod> to app and alternatives sitemaps
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Some seeded rows have updated_at values that produce an Invalid Date; toISOString() threw RangeError and 500'd the app/alternatives sitemaps.
The seed import wrote ISO strings into the integer updated_at column, so drizzle's timestamp mapper produced Invalid Date for every row and sitemaps rendered without lastmod. Select the raw value for sitemaps, normalize ISO strings and epoch seconds/millis, and make the import write epoch seconds to match the schema going forward.
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Google deindexed the site almost entirely: ~9,000 pages indexed mid-April → 5 pages by mid-May (GSC coverage export). Two root causes:
www.unclouded.appand plainhttp://served200instead of redirecting. Google indexed www duplicates (visible in live search results); canonical<link>tags are only a hint./compare/pages (83% of all sitemap URLs) with no unique content. GSC shows 9,658 pages "Crawled - currently not indexed" with failed validation — the signature of a site-wide quality suppression.Changes
https://unclouded.appin the worker (scoped to prod hostnames; dev and workers.dev untouched)X-Robots-Tag: noindexon/compare/pages; comparisons sitemap now returns 410 and is removed from the sitemap index (pages remain usable in-app)Crawl-delay: 10from robots.txt (ignored by Google, throttled Bing)<lastmod>in app + alternatives sitemaps (KV cache keys bumped to v2)Verification
pnpm build(vite build + tsc) passes, biome clean on changed files🤖 Generated with Claude Code