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MODIFIED Requirements

Requirement: Sitemap and robots

The site MUST provide:

  • sitemap-index.xml enumerating indexable pages (and/or referencing sitemap shards)
  • robots.txt that allows indexing of indexable pages

The sitemap MUST include the blog surface routes:

  • /blog
  • blog post detail routes
  • blog page detail routes
  • blog category listing routes

robots.txt MUST reference the sitemap using an absolute URL for the production domain.

Scenario: Sitemap index is available

  • WHEN a crawler requests /sitemap-index.xml
  • THEN the server returns an XML sitemap index (or sitemap) listing /, /videos, /podcast, /about, and /blog

Scenario: Blog URLs appear in sitemap

  • WHEN WordPress content is available in the cache at build time
  • THEN the generated sitemap includes the blog detail URLs for those items

Scenario: Robots references sitemap with absolute URL

  • WHEN a crawler requests /robots.txt
  • THEN the response contains a Sitemap: line with an absolute URL to /sitemap-index.xml

ADDED Requirements

Requirement: Organization and website structured data

The home page SHOULD include JSON-LD structured data for the site and its owner/organization.

If present, the JSON-LD MUST be valid JSON and MUST use a recognized schema type.

Scenario: Home page includes valid JSON-LD

  • WHEN a crawler requests /
  • THEN the HTML contains a JSON-LD script tag that parses as valid JSON