Lift the snippet ceiling on the marketing zone - #44
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The zone shipped no robots directives, so Google's defaults applied: a capped text snippet and a thumbnail-sized image preview. That cap is what AI surfaces read against when deciding how much of a page they may quote, and Search Console puts those surfaces at 27% of blode.co's impressions over the last 28 days. blode.co sets these three at its root. No zone did, so every proxied project was quoting-capped while the parent was not. Title, description, canonical and schema are all already in good shape here and are left alone. Search Console shows the cmux queries this zone ranks for converting at 6.9% to 28.6%, which is the whole domain's click volume, so the snippet copy is doing its job and is not what this touches. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSVzcpTXLzGvzu42LaM2ri
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CI gates on `changeset status --since origin/main`, and `@diffhub/web` is tracked by changesets even though it is private, so a metadata-only edit to the marketing site failed the check. Empty rather than a patch: this changes a meta tag on the site, not the published `diffhub` CLI, so there is nothing to release. Matches the two empty changesets already in .changeset/. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSVzcpTXLzGvzu42LaM2ri
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Part of a Search Console audit across blode.co and its zones (28 days to 2026-08-16).
What this changes
The zone shipped no
robotsdirectives, so Google's defaults applied: a capped text snippet and a thumbnail-sized image preview. That cap is what AI surfaces read against when deciding how much of a page they may quote, and Search Console puts those surfaces at 27% of blode.co's impressions over the window.blode.co sets
max-snippet:-1,max-image-preview:largeandmax-video-preview:-1at its root. No zone did, so every proxied project was quoting-capped while the parent was not. This is the same one-block change going into all ten repos.What this deliberately does not change
DiffHub is the only thing on the domain earning clicks.
cmux *queries account for 22 of the domain's 26 clicks (85%), at positions 3.9 to 6.8 and CTRs of 6.9% to 28.6%:The title (
DiffHub: cmux git diff viewer for agent code review), description, canonical and schema are all already in good shape, with documented rationale inapp/layout.tsx. The snippet copy is doing its job, so this PR does not touch it.One finding worth recording: the
diffhubbrand query draws 53 impressions at position 4.9 with zero clicks, whilecmux git diffconverts at 22% from a worse position. Same site, same snippet quality, so that is competing intent on a one-word brand term rather than anything the page says. No change made for it.Verification
npm run check-types(3/3 tasks) andnpm run lint(3/3, 0 warnings, 0 errors) both pass.Generated by Claude Code
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Low Risk
Metadata-only SEO tuning with no auth, data, or runtime behavior changes; risk is limited to how crawlers interpret indexing/snippet directives.
Overview
Adds Next.js
metadata.robotson the marketing zone’s root layout so Google is told to use unlimited text snippets, large image previews, and unlimited video previews, matching what blode.co already sets at its root.Previously the zone had no
robotsblock, so Google’s defaults applied (capped snippet and smaller image preview), which the PR ties to how much AI/search surfaces may quote the page. Indexing and follow behavior stay on (index/followfor both default andgoogleBot). Titles, descriptions, canonical, and schema are unchanged.An empty changeset file was added alongside the layout change.
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