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docs(hutch): record homepage A/B noindex + canonical=/ as intentional…
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions projects/hutch/src/runtime/web/pages/home/home.component.ts
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Expand Up @@ -73,8 +73,11 @@ export function HomePage(params: HomePageParams): PageBody {
"The read-it-later app and online reader for distraction-free reading — save any article or web page in one click and read it later in a clean reader view. A privacy-first Pocket alternative with real Tesseract OCR for scanned PDFs (no LLM hallucination). Read the Web, not the Slop.",
canonicalUrl: "https://readplace.com",
ogType: "website",
// The A/B arms are noindex so only the canonical `/` competes for SEO;
// the canonical above stays on `/` for all three renders.
// The A/B arms render `noindex` with canonical=`/`, so only the canonical `/` competes for
// SEO across all three renders. This is defence-in-depth, not redundancy: the isbot gate on
// `/` only keeps crawlers off the arms they'd reach via the client redirect. A direct hit to
// a `/landing-*` URL is not bot-gated and not disallowed in robots.txt, so on that path the
// arm's own noindex + canonical=`/` are the only guard. Don't remove either half.
robots: variant ? "noindex, follow" : "index, follow",
ogImage: `${staticBaseUrl}/og-image-1200x630.png`,
ogImageType: "image/png",
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