SEO schema cleanup + blog index update
Removed 42 deprecated/restricted schema blocks across 21 files: - FAQPage removed from all commercial pages (restricted Aug 2023) - HowTo removed from all pages (rich results removed Sep 2023) - Compliance guide: author type fixed Organization->Person Blog index: - New article cards: ai-web-scraping-2026, web-scraping-lead-generation-uk - Stats updated: 55+ articles -> 57+, 2025 Content -> 2026 Content - Featured article date updated to March 2026 - Blog schema updated with new BlogPosting entries
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Peter Foster
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"name": "Which UK industry benefits most from web scraping?",
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"text": "Property and e-commerce consistently show the highest ROI from web scraping in the UK, due to the volume of publicly available listing and pricing data and the direct link between data quality and commercial decisions. Financial services and energy are close behind given the value of real-time market data in those sectors."
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"text": "Scraping publicly available property listing data is generally lawful in the UK, provided it does not involve personal data without a lawful basis under the UK GDPR, does not circumvent technical access controls, and does not infringe database rights held by the portal operator. Professional compliance review is recommended before commencing any property data scraping project."
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"text": "Financial services firms use web scraping to gather alternative data — regulatory filings, company announcements, news sentiment, and market commentary — that is not available through traditional data vendors. This data supports investment research, risk monitoring, and compliance surveillance. All such activity must comply with FCA rules around market abuse and data governance."
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"text": "Data accuracy in web scraping is measured at the field level across delivered records. We track the proportion of correctly extracted, correctly typed, and correctly valued fields against the expected schema. Errors are logged, categorised by type, and reported to clients in delivery summaries."
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"text": "For B2B SaaS churn prediction, Random Forest and XGBoost typically perform best, achieving 80-90% accuracy. The best model depends on your data quality and feature engineering. Start with logistic regression as a baseline, then test ensemble methods."
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