Blog
How this site is built, what changes, and what those changes do to its search visibility, from the first commit onward.
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The baseline: known to Google, not yet indexed
Five pages discovered, a homepage not yet crawled, and two spam backlinks before the first visit from Google.
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Adding robots.txt and a sitemap
A robots.txt that blocks nothing and a five-URL sitemap, and why both are still worth having.
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Day one: a static site with real 404s
Why Heliocite starts as plain HTML on Firebase Hosting, and the first SEO fix it needed.