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feat(seo): self-canonicalize 2026 and hand link equity to 2027 - #20
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Canonical pointed at https://cusec.net for every route, so the 2026 site declared a cross-domain canonical Google ignores. Now self-canonical per route via metadataBase + alternates.canonical "./". Adds followed links to https://2027.cusec.net with "CUSEC 2027" anchor text in the navbar and footer (sitewide) and the hero, plus robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and an Organization/EventSeries JSON-LD graph tying the 2026 and 2027 editions to one entity. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every route inherited the root title, so /speakers, /team, /schedule, /code-of-conduct and /privacy-policy competed with the homepage on the same string. Each now carries a year-scoped title and a description that names CUSEC 2027 where it is relevant. /schedule and / are "use server" files, which cannot export a metadata const; /schedule gets a segment layout instead and / keeps the root default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Social crawlers do not render SVG, so every share card fell back to no image. Points og:image and twitter:image at the existing 448x448 PNG. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
….txt The navbar links /scavenger sitewide, so a Disallow leaves Google free to index the URL with no content behind it. Crawlable + noindex removes it from the index properly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The year sites were orphans that only Google's entity resolution tied together. Adds a footer row linking 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2027, marking 2026 as the current page. 2023.cusec.net is left out: its Netlify certificate does not cover the custom domain, so the link would land on a TLS interstitial. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sponsor logos were announced as "Gold Sponsor 1", so the Sponsor type now carries a name. Speaker and team photos name the edition, which is what image search matches on. Waves, koi, suns, paths and checkmarks are decoration and now carry an empty alt instead of a word. Scavenger admin screens are left alone: auth-gated and noindexed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Speaker names are the highest-value long-tail query an archived conference site has, and all 13 shared one URL. /speakers/<slug> renders the full bio and talk description as indexable text, publishes Person JSON-LD tied to the 2026 event, and links CUSEC 2027. The index links each name; the sitemap lists all 13. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Domain-property verification on cusec.net is not available, so each year site verifies on its own with the URL-prefix HTML tag. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Canonical pointed at https://cusec.net for every route, so the 2026 site
declared a cross-domain canonical Google ignores. Now self-canonical per
route via metadataBase + alternates.canonical "./".
Adds followed links to https://2027.cusec.net with "CUSEC 2027" anchor
text in the navbar and footer (sitewide) and the hero, plus robots.txt,
sitemap.xml, and an Organization/EventSeries JSON-LD graph tying the 2026
and 2027 editions to one entity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com