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Google Thought My Archive Was the Homepage
Search Console said duplicate page with a proper canonical. Six of my own URLs were pointing at /. Here is the Next.js leak, and why I flipped four reprints back to Promptway.
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Search Console said duplicate page with a proper canonical. Six of my own URLs were pointing at /. Here is the Next.js leak, and why I flipped four reprints back to Promptway.
My publication had all the fancy AI-optimization layers and still pointed at the wrong product. Here is the one-day plumbing pass that actually made it visible, in plain words.
What I had in place, what an honest Lighthouse plus Search Console audit uncovered, and the fixes that took my homepage from 14.5 MB to 1 MB without losing the look.
Your website has human visitors and AI visitors. Here's how to serve both — with llms.txt, inline LLM instructions, structured data, and machine-readable feeds.