<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>stillindexed: blog</title><description>Your client&apos;s next deploy can silently kill their traffic. stillindexed.com checks noindex, robots.txt, canonicals and redirects as often as every 15 minutes and alerts you before the client calls.</description><link>https://stillindexed.com</link><item><title>Your CDN can serve Googlebot a different page than your visitors</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/cdn-serving-googlebot-a-different-page</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/cdn-serving-googlebot-a-different-page</guid><description>A site looks perfect in a browser and is broken for crawlers when something between the origin and the crawler changes the response. The mechanisms, and how to check for a split between what Googlebot gets and what a visitor gets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How AI crawlers actually see your site</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/how-ai-crawlers-see-your-site</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/how-ai-crawlers-see-your-site</guid><description>What GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot are each for, what they obey, and what blocking one costs you.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>llms.txt: what it is and whether it actually does anything</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/llms-txt-does-it-do-anything</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/llms-txt-does-it-do-anything</guid><description>llms.txt is a proposed markdown file that lists a site&apos;s main content for large language models. What it can and cannot do, who actually reads it, and what demonstrably does affect whether an assistant uses your page.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A staging site got indexed by Google. How to get it out, and how to stop it happening again.</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/staging-site-indexed-by-google</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/staging-site-indexed-by-google</guid><description>Your staging host is in the search results, possibly duplicating production. Why it happened, the order that gets it out, what the Removals tool actually does, and the fix that stops it for good.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Canonical mistakes that quietly kill rankings</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/canonical-mistakes-that-quietly-kill-rankings</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/canonical-mistakes-that-quietly-kill-rankings</guid><description>A canonical tag is a page telling Google which URL is the preferred one. The common mistakes point it at a redirect, a noindexed page, a 404, or another host. What each one does and how to check the tag.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google Search Console won&apos;t warn you in time</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/google-search-console-wont-warn-you-in-time</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/google-search-console-wont-warn-you-in-time</guid><description>Search Console is a reporting surface, not an alert. Its data arrives after Google has crawled and processed, so it cannot warn you the day a page changes. What it is genuinely for, and what to pair it with.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Redirect chains: how many hops is too many?</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/redirect-chains-how-many-hops-is-too-many</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/redirect-chains-how-many-hops-is-too-many</guid><description>A redirect chain is a series of redirects where each one sends the visitor to the next instead of the final page. What each hop costs, when crawlers give up, and how to flatten the chain to one direct redirect.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Site migration SEO monitoring: the launch-day and 90-day playbook</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/site-migration-seo-monitoring-playbook</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/site-migration-seo-monitoring-playbook</guid><description>A migration is a checklist of specific things that break, and most are known before launch. How to order the launch-day checks and what to verify through the first 90 days.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SSL and domain expiry: the boring disasters</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/ssl-and-domain-expiry-the-boring-disasters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/ssl-and-domain-expiry-the-boring-disasters</guid><description>A lapsed SSL certificate or domain registration takes the whole site out of business, not the rankings. How each one fails, why neither shows in the traffic until it is too late, and what to watch.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Accidentally noindexed your site? Find and fix it fast</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/accidentally-noindexed-your-site-find-and-fix-it-fast</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/accidentally-noindexed-your-site-find-and-fix-it-fast</guid><description>How to confirm an accidental noindex in the live HTML and the response headers, find what put it on, fix it, and get the page back in the index without waiting on Search Console.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why did my organic traffic drop overnight? A triage checklist</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/why-did-my-organic-traffic-drop-overnight</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/why-did-my-organic-traffic-drop-overnight</guid><description>Organic traffic dropped overnight. Work the list: indexability, robots.txt, canonicals, status codes, sitemap, a search update, or a tracking break. How to check each in under a minute and what the result means.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>X-Robots-Tag vs meta robots: the noindex you cannot see in the HTML</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/x-robots-tag-vs-meta-robots</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/x-robots-tag-vs-meta-robots</guid><description>X-Robots-Tag and meta robots both send noindex, but one lives in the response headers and one lives in the HTML. What each one does, which wins when both are present, and how to check both.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Robots.txt changes that silently deindex whole sections</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/robots-txt-changes-that-silently-deindex-sections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/robots-txt-changes-that-silently-deindex-sections</guid><description>One Disallow line can remove a section from Google for days. How Googlebot actually resolves robots.txt, why the file&apos;s text is the wrong thing to watch, and what to check after every deploy.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is noindex, and why it silently kills traffic</title><link>https://stillindexed.com/blog/what-is-noindex-and-why-it-silently-kills-traffic</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://stillindexed.com/blog/what-is-noindex-and-why-it-silently-kills-traffic</guid><description>noindex tells Google not to index a page. Here is how it works, why a stray noindex routinely sits live for 24 to 72 hours before anyone notices, and how to find and fix it before rankings slide.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>