Search engines

A step of the Cloud application tree on Gradus, in the Frontend area: Second app, UI, browser tests.

Describe the product to search engines with structured data, prove you own the site in their consoles and send them the sitemap.

Usually comes after: Crawl rules & sitemap.

Prompt for your AI assistant

Read docs/product/pitch.md and the crawling decision record in docs/decisions. Add JSON-LD structured data to the landing page and to every page type that has a matching schema.org type, such as WebSite, Organization, SoftwareApplication or Article, and validate it with Google's Rich Results Test. Ask me to verify the domain in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools through a DNS record and to submit the sitemap in both. Check in each whether any address other than the canonical one is indexed, such as the platform's default host or a preview URL, and fix the rule that let it in. Run the Lighthouse SEO audit on the key pages, fix what it reports and write in docs/ when to look at the consoles again.

This is https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/search-engines as plain HTML. In a browser the page also lets you mark the step forged and copy a message for your AI assistant.