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[Trace] Noindex the empty docs.turbodocx.com root page - #176
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/ renders ~1 word to a first-pass crawler: it's a client-side redirect (<Redirect to="/docs" /> from @docusaurus/router) to the real hub at /docs. Per config/noindex-strategy.json (auto-noindex under 100 words), add a noindex,follow meta tag via @docusaurus/Head and exclude / from the sitemap plugin's ignorePatterns so the two signals agree. A server-side redirect (e.g. a Cloudflare Pages static/_redirects entry) would be the long-term fix so crawlers and users never hit the client-rendered stub at all, but that's out of scope here.
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Closes #175
Trace task:
config/noindex-strategy.json(auto-noindex under 100 rendered words) from theai-seo-playbook, applied to the Docs site.Evidence
https://docs.turbodocx.com/renders ~1 word to a first-pass crawler (from/home/nicolas/.claude/jobs/4fe2c970/tmp/prune.json:words: 1,clicks90: 1,impr90: 81), well under the strategy's 100-word auto-noindex threshold and the >100 clicks/month guard.What
/turned out to besrc/pages/index.tsxis not a landing page — it renders<Redirect to="/docs" />from@docusaurus/router, a client-side redirect to the real documentation hub at/docs(30 words, 4 clicks/90d, already indexed and fine). Crawlers that don't execute JS see an effectively empty page.Changes
src/pages/index.tsx: added<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />via@docusaurus/Head.docusaurus.config.js: addedsitemap.ignorePatterns: ['/']so the sitemap plugin doesn't list a page with a conflicting noindex tag (Docusaurus 3.10's sitemap plugin also auto-excludes noindexed pages at build time from rendered HTML, so this is belt-and-suspenders).Not done here (noted in the CR)
/is a client-side redirect, so crawlers and users still make a request to the empty stub before JS redirects them. The long-term fix is a server-side redirect (a Cloudflare Pagesstatic/_redirectsentry,/ /docs 301or similar) so nobody ever renders the stub. Out of scope for this noindex-only change; flagging for a follow-up.Test plan
/route itself; no slug changes