Repairing 2,300 broken hreflang clusters: int'l indexation +24pts 7-locale store. Return-tag audit across 16,100 alternate declarations. Valid bidirectional ▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ 48% Missing return tag ▓▓▓▓░░░░░…
Stratified sampling caught a defect a full crawl missed 2.8M-URL site. Full crawls kept timing out, so the team eyeballed the homepage cluster and called it clean. We ran a stratified sample: 400 URLs…
noindex on 6,900 thin tag pages: site-wide median position ↓2.1 Blog with auto-generated tag archives, avg 1.3 posts per tag. Index composition before: Thin tag/archive ▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ 47% Articles ▓▓▓▓░░░…
Cutting 5xx rate 9.4%→0.6%: crawl demand recovered 2.1x E-commerce platform throttling under load. 30-day log sample, 3.1M crawl requests. Baseline status mix: 2xx ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░ 84.2% 5xx ▓░░░░░░░░░ 9.4%…
Converting 4,800 302s to 301: equity consolidation in 19 days Migration aftermath. Status-code audit across 71,000 internal redirect targets. 302 (temporary) ▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░ 61% (4,800 unique chains) 301 (…
Removing rogue self-canonical on paginated pages: +18% indexed listings Forum with 14,700 thread-list pages. Every page 2..N canonicalized to page 1. Reachable-only-via-deep-pages threads ▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ 5…
