* feat(seo): BlogPosting schema, FAQPage JSON-LD, author system, AI crawler welcome
Blog structured data:
- Change @type Article to BlogPosting for all blog posts
- Author: Organization to Person with extensible default (Elie Habib)
- Add per-post author/authorUrl/authorBio/modifiedDate frontmatter fields
- Auto-extract FAQPage JSON-LD from FAQ sections in all 17 posts
- Show Updated date when modifiedDate differs from pubDate
- Add author bio section with GitHub avatar and fallback
Main app:
- Add commodity variant to middleware VARIANT_HOST_MAP and VARIANT_OG
- Add commodity.worldmonitor.app to sitemap.xml
- Shorten index.html meta description to 136 chars (was 161)
- Remove worksFor block from index.html author JSON-LD
- Welcome all bots in robots.txt (removed per-bot blocks, global allows)
- Update llms.txt: five variants listed, all 17 blog post URLs added
* fix(seo): scope FAQ regex to section boundary, use author-aware avatar
- extractFaqLd now slices only to the next ## heading (was: to end of body)
preventing bold text in post-FAQ sections from being mistakenly extracted
- Avatar src now derived from DEFAULT_AUTHOR_GITHUB constant (koala73)
only when using the default author; custom authors fall back to favicon
so multi-author posts show a correct image instead of the wrong profile
Replace "WorldMonitor" with "World Monitor" in all user-facing display
text across blog posts, docs, layouts, structured data, footer, offline
page, and X-Title headers. Technical identifiers (User-Agent strings,
X-WorldMonitor-Key headers, @WorldMonitorApp handle, function names)
are preserved unchanged. Also adds anchors color to Mintlify docs config
to fix blue link color in dark mode.
* feat(blog): add Astro blog at /blog with 16 SEO-optimized posts
Adds a static Astro blog built during Vercel deploy and served at
worldmonitor.app/blog. Includes 16 marketing/SEO posts covering
features, use cases, and comparisons from customer perspectives.
- blog-site/: Astro static site with content collections, RSS, sitemap
- Vercel build pipeline: build:blog builds Astro and copies to public/blog/
- vercel.json: exclude /blog from SPA catch-all rewrite and no-cache headers
- vercel.json: ignoreCommand triggers deploy on blog-site/ changes
- Cache: /blog/_astro/* immutable, blog HTML uses Vercel defaults
* fix(blog): fix markdown lint errors in blog posts
Add blank lines around headings (MD022) and lists (MD032) across
all 16 blog post files to pass markdownlint checks.
* fix(ci): move ignoreCommand to script to stay under 256 char limit
Vercel schema validates ignoreCommand max length at 256 characters.
Move the logic to scripts/vercel-ignore.sh and reference it inline.
* fix(blog): address PR review findings
- Add blog sitemap to robots.txt for SEO discovery
- Use www.worldmonitor.app consistently (canonical domain)
- Clean public/blog/ before copy to prevent stale files
- Use npm ci for hermetic CI builds
* fix(blog): move blog dependency install to postinstall phase
Separates dependency installation from compilation. Blog deps are
now installed during npm install (postinstall hook), not during build.
Pro page (/pro):
- Shorten title to ≤60 chars for SERP visibility
- Fix canonical + all URLs to www.worldmonitor.app
- Fix multiple H1 (Enterprise modal H1→H2)
- Fix heading hierarchy (H2→H4 jumps → proper H2→H3→H4)
- Sync FAQPage JSON-LD with all 8 visible FAQs
- Add twitter:title, twitter:description, og:locale, og:image:alt
- Add hreflang tags for all 21 supported languages
- Add <noscript> fallback with key SEO content
- Add SSG prerender script (injects text into built HTML)
- Self-host WIRED logo SVG (was loading from Wikipedia)
- Add aria-labels on footer links and CTAs
- Fix i18n to read ?lang= query parameter (was only localStorage + navigator)
Main page:
- Fix canonical + OG/Twitter URLs to www.worldmonitor.app
- Update twitter:site/creator to @worldmonitorai
- Add <noscript> with H1, description, features, and /pro link
- Add hreflang tags for all 21 languages
- Add og:image:alt meta tag
- Add @worldmonitorai to JSON-LD sameAs
- Align title with variant-meta.ts
Shared:
- Update sitemap.xml URLs to www.worldmonitor.app
- Update robots.txt sitemap reference to www
- Update variant-meta.ts full variant URL to www
Remove 'unsafe-inline' from script-src in both index.html and vercel.json,
replacing it with SHA-256 hashes of the two static inline theme-detection
scripts. Add security.txt, sitemap.xml, and Sitemap directive in robots.txt
to improve scanner reputation. Fix stale variant-metadata test that was
reading vite.config.ts instead of the extracted variant-meta.ts module.
Block crawlers/scrapers from /api/* routes via Edge Middleware (403 for
bot user-agents and missing/short UAs). Social preview bots (Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord) are allowed on /api/story and
/api/og-story for OG previews. robots.txt reinforces the same policy.
