backlog: loop #9 audit — robots/homepage-jsonld clean; orphan-pages finding queued (gated IA change)

6a3c349d43fd005bad1e70f59405e03416e39928 · 2026-06-03 11:59:38 -0700 · Steve

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commit 6a3c349d43fd005bad1e70f59405e03416e39928
Author: Steve <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 3 11:59:38 2026 -0700

    backlog: loop #9 audit — robots/homepage-jsonld clean; orphan-pages finding queued (gated IA change)
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diff --git a/YOLO_BACKLOG.md b/YOLO_BACKLOG.md
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@@ -127,6 +127,19 @@ reversible local commit** marked `[x]` w/ hash, then ScheduleWakeup ~1800s.
 - **Mixed content**: 0 insecure `http://` resource refs. · **og:image**: every indexable
   page has one. Clean.
 
+## Loop #9 — 2026-06-03 (discoverability audit; FINDING queued, no auto-fix)
+- **Audited clean:** robots.txt correct (`Allow: /` + Sitemap ref; Disallow for the
+  noindex'd pages would wrongly BLOCK crawl → Google couldn't see the noindex, so correctly
+  omitted). Homepage JSON-LD — 2 valid blocks (WebSite+SearchAction, Organization), 0
+  invalid; SearchAction target valid.
+- **FINDING — orphan pages (gated, NOT auto-fixed):** `about.html`, `license-terms.html`,
+  `collections-by-steve.html` have **zero inbound internal links** — reachable only by
+  direct URL (now also via sitemap after loop #8, but users can't navigate to them).
+  `decorator.html` is a non-issue (302-redirects). Did NOT auto-fix because the remedy is
+  adding **visible nav/footer links across the 44-page shared static nav** — a customer-
+  facing IA change needing placement judgment + visual QA I can't do autonomously. See
+  queued recommendation below.
+
 ### Audited clean / noted — 2026-06-03 (loop #7)
 - **Meta descriptions**: every indexable page has a unique one; only art-review/popout/
   sent-to-exa lack it and those are noindex'd internal tools. No duplicates. Clean.
@@ -137,6 +150,12 @@ reversible local commit** marked `[x]` w/ hash, then ScheduleWakeup ~1800s.
   internal popup). Multiple-h1 on a noindex utility — left alone.
 
 ## Notes / queued-for-Steve (gated — do NOT auto-do)
+- **(IA decision + your eyeball)** Link the 3 orphan pages into site navigation:
+  `about.html` → add "About" to the main nav (it's a core page with no inbound link);
+  `license-terms.html` → add to the **footer** (standard Terms/License placement);
+  `collections-by-steve.html` → link from wherever it fits contextually (catalog/print area?).
+  The shared `<nav id="site-nav">` is hardcoded per-page, so this is a 44-file edit to the
+  shared nav/footer — a visible customer-facing change I left for you to place + QA.
 - **(follow-up, needs your eyeball)** Promote the visible title h2→h1 on the 11 pages from
   loop #7 (DTD option A) so the main heading is a *visible* h1, not just sr-only. Held back
   because it needs font-size pinned across `.rail-header`/`.flow` wrappers and I can't QA

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