X-Robots-Tag rather than the robots.txt Disallow alone, for the same
reason the staging rule uses one: a Disallow blocks crawling, not
indexing, so a URL found from an external link can be indexed without
ever being fetched — and blocking the crawl means the noindex is never
seen. Both mechanisms are applied to /admin and /cms-api.
The existing CSP is frame-ancestors only, which restricts who may embed
the site rather than what a page may load, so it cannot break the panel.
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Payload's admin panel ships its own root layout rendering html/body.
Next allows multiple root layouts only when no app/layout.tsx exists, so
the site's routes move into their own group. Route groups are invisible
to routing: every public URL is unchanged, verified against the build's
route table.
The metadata file conventions deliberately stay at the app/ root. Moving
them into the group renamed /icon.png to /icon-4usi79.png (likewise
apple-icon and opengraph-image) and dropped /robots.txt altogether,
which would have broken the /icon.png cache-control rule, the
outputFileTracingIncludes entry for the share card, and robots.txt.
darkThemeSafety reads app/globals.css off disk rather than importing it,
so it needed its own path fix — a grep for import specifiers misses it,
and it fails as an unrunnable suite rather than a failed assertion.
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withPayload() is ESM-only, so next.config.js has to become .mjs. That
file also carries the rule that keeps staging out of Google's index, so
the conversion goes in on its own, behind a test that asserts the rule
survived — along with the standalone output, the opengraph-image font
tracing and the analytics frame-ancestors CSP.
Jest resolves the .mjs config without extra configuration, so
jest.config.js is untouched.
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Every place page shipped as 'Schools in Brentwood - Compare 27 Schools |
schoolcompare | schoolcompare'. The root layout's title template appends
'| schoolcompare' to any plain-string title, and all four place routes already
carried the brand. W8 opted the other routes out with an absolute title; the
place routes were written afterwards and did not inherit the lesson.
~2,600 titles affected, and the repetition pushed them past Google's
truncation point, so the doubled brand displaced real words in the result.
An e2e journey now asserts no title repeats the brand, across the static
routes and a place page, so this cannot come back on a route added later.
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Every generateStaticParams is gated behind PRERENDER_PLACES and wrapped in the
same try/catch the school route uses. The plan claimed authority pages were
'few enough to always prebuild' — but few enough still means the API must be
reachable at build time, and in CI it is not: the build failed with
ECONNREFUSED rather than degrading to ISR.
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The baseline says these pages already rank and are not clicked. 'compare
school performance' sits at position 6.1 with 0.43% CTR; 'compare schools' at
7.2 with 0.87%. The brand query 'school compare' draws 9.16% from the same
neighbourhood of the same results page, which rules out a ranking explanation
— when the snippet gives a reason to click, it gets clicked.
These SERPs are owned by the DfE's own 'Compare school performance' service.
The old title put a lowercase brand nobody searches for in the most valuable
pixels, then a near-paraphrase of that service's name. Beside the government's
own result it read as a lookalike.
Intent in the title, differentiator in the description. Titles now match what
people type, and the descriptions carry the one fact gov.uk does not publish:
how close you had to live to get a place.
/compare deliberately takes the tool phrasing rather than the homepage's, so
the two pages stop competing for one phrase. The root layout's default and
Open Graph copy were saying something different again; they now agree.
No hard school counts in any of it. The corpus moves with every data refresh
and this repo has already shipped one copy bug of that kind.
Tests guard the mechanics — SERP length, intent keyword, the differentiator,
no brand-first title — and leave the wording free to iterate.
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25,193 schools make ~317 million pairs. The bare page stays indexable as the
landing page for the head term; the parameter space goes noindex, follow so
its outbound links still count.
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The homepage read eleven search params and declared no canonical, so every
filter combination was a crawlable near-duplicate of the page we most want to
rank. Rankings and admissions declared none either.
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