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The site had no sitemap, no robots.txt, no canonical, no structured data, and -- the one that mattered most -- never stated who built it. A search for the author's name could not surface this site however good the work was, because the name appeared nowhere in the markup. Adds: - sitemap.ts over an explicit route list. Globbing a directory would mean the sitemap silently gains pages nobody reviewed. - robots.ts allowing everything except /api/, which is live agent state rather than content and costs crawl quota on both sides. - StructuredData: a Person entity with jobTitle, location, knowsAbout and sameAs links to GitHub and LinkedIn, plus WebSite, SoftwareSourceCode (SandScope) and SoftwareApplication (Charter), all cross-referenced by @id. Answer engines increasingly cite structured entities rather than parsing prose; an unstructured page is one they can read but not attribute. - metadataBase so OG and canonical URLs resolve absolutely, a title template so no page is anonymous in a results list, and explicit author/creator/publisher.
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The structured data added in this branch tells a crawler who built this. It does not tell a reader, and a machine-readable entity with no visible counterpart is the weaker half of the signal: crawlable links are what actually consolidate a person, a site and a set of repositories into one entity rather than three unrelated things. Adds a site-wide footer naming the author with rel="me author" links to GitHub and LinkedIn, plus source and Charter. Uses the existing .row-links class, so the inline-style ratchet holds at 148.
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The site had no sitemap, no
robots.txt, no canonical, and no structured data. The one that mattered most: it never said who built it, so a search for the author's name could not surface it however good the work was.sitemap.ts— explicit route list, not a glob. A sitemap that silently gains pages is one nobody reviews.robots.ts— allows everything except/api/, which is live agent state rather than content.StructuredData.tsx— aPersonentity (jobTitle, location,knowsAbout,sameAs→ GitHub + LinkedIn) plusWebSite,SoftwareSourceCodefor SandScope andSoftwareApplicationfor Charter, cross-referenced by@id. Answer engines cite structured entities rather than parsing prose.metadataBase, a title template, and explicit author/creator/publisher.Verified against a production build:
robots.txtandsitemap.xmlrender, the JSON-LD parses to four typed entities, and the author's name now appears in the markup.