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TudorandClaude Opus 5 c6079a68d8 fix(seo): noindex parameterised comparisons, keep bare /compare
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015mWQnpye9F299NVRCCSRvj
2026-08-20 22:11:34 +01:00

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import { metadata as homeMetadata } from '@/app/page';
import { metadata as rankingsMetadata } from '@/app/rankings/page';
import { metadata as admissionsMetadata } from '@/app/admissions/page';
import { generateMetadata as compareMetadata } from '@/app/compare/page';
describe('canonical URLs', () => {
it('the homepage canonicalises to the bare root', () => {
// page.tsx reads eleven search params. Without this, every filter
// combination is a crawlable near-duplicate of the one page we want to
// rank for "compare schools".
expect(homeMetadata.alternates?.canonical)
.toBe('https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/');
});
it('rankings canonicalises to the bare path', () => {
expect(rankingsMetadata.alternates?.canonical)
.toBe('https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/rankings');
});
it('admissions canonicalises to the bare path', () => {
expect(admissionsMetadata.alternates?.canonical)
.toBe('https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/admissions');
});
});
describe('/compare indexability', () => {
it('the bare compare page is indexable and canonical to itself', async () => {
// This is the landing page for the "compare schools" head term.
const meta = await compareMetadata({ searchParams: Promise.resolve({}) });
expect(meta.alternates?.canonical)
.toBe('https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/compare');
expect(meta.robots).toBeUndefined();
});
it('a comparison of specific schools is noindex, follow', async () => {
// ~317 million pairs before triples. Indexing the parameter space would
// swamp everything else in the corpus.
const meta = await compareMetadata({
searchParams: Promise.resolve({ urns: '100001,100002' }),
});
expect(meta.robots).toEqual({ index: false, follow: true });
});
it('a parameterised comparison still canonicalises to the bare path', async () => {
// follow:true plus a canonical means the outbound links to each school
// page still pass value even though this URL is not indexed.
const meta = await compareMetadata({
searchParams: Promise.resolve({ urns: '100001,100002' }),
});
expect(meta.alternates?.canonical)
.toBe('https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk/compare');
});
});