data-quality-validation-pipelines.php:
- Fix H1 to match title (was still "Advanced Statistical Validation..." after title was updated)
- Remove 3 orphaned text fragments from broken AI edit merges ("racy and reliability.", "ta pipelines...", "ust in your analytics.")
- Fix split <strong> tag mid-word
- Fix internal link from /services/web-scraping-services.php to /services/web-scraping
business-intelligence-dashboard-design.php:
- Rewrite meta description - old one concatenated with title into bizarre GSC query
"2025 ux best practices for displaying data analysis results competitive intelligence dashboard..."
(74 impressions, 0 clicks)
- Restore title to Feb 16 baseline (was ranking pos 12.8): "Web Scraping Services UK | Fast, GDPR-Compliant Data Extraction"
- Restore original meta description targeting web scraping services for UK businesses
- Add 301 redirects for /web-scraping-services/ and /data-scraping-services/ → /services/web-scraping (duplicate pages were cannibalizing the main page)
- Fix blog article schema headline from generic "statistical validation" phrase to "Data Quality Validation for Web Scraping Pipelines" to stop attracting irrelevant academic queries in GSC
- Fix broken PHP syntax in real-time data extraction article
- Fix truncated meta description on homepage
- Fix truncated titles on competitive intelligence and price monitoring pages
- Update Selenium vs Playwright article year from 2024 to 2026
- Replace no-store cache headers on homepage with private revalidation
- 301 redirect thin duplicate real-time streaming article to canonical
- Add HSTS header to data-cleaning service page
- Replace SVG og:images with PNG social card across 24 blog articles
- Add Services breadcrumb level to London, Manchester, Birmingham pages
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
- Assign named authors to all 14 blog articles that defaulted to Editorial Team
- Replace team-based author labels (DevOps Team, Legal Team etc) with named authors
- Update 2025 -> 2026 in ecommerce trends, buyers guide, and python pipeline titles
- Remove phone number (01692 Norfolk) from all pages and schema
- Anonymise unverifiable case study clients (TechElectronics UK, Heritage Bank UK)
- Add clickable Companies House link (08576932) to footer
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- .htaccess: remove duplicate cache block that set all CSS/JS to max-age=31536000
CSS/JS now use max-age=3600 must-revalidate (was 1 year, breaking live edits)
- index.php: bump main.min.css version v1.1.3 -> v1.1.4
- All 78 PHP files: add ?v=20260222 to main.css and cro-enhancements.css refs
Forces browser cache bust for all pages after todays accessibility changes
- Delete all .bak files from web root (security fix)
- Regenerate sitemap-blog.xml with all 41 articles and correct lastmod dates
- Improve homepage meta description (more specific, no contract mention)
- Add FAQPage schema to Python pipeline article (4 Q&As)
- Fix London analytics article: author, meta description updated
- Add contextual inline links to 4 articles -> service pages
- Remove includes.bak.20260210 directory
- Remove author-bio.php and article-footer.php duplicate inclusions from
inside related article cards across 17 articles (was rendering 4x per page)
- Create /assets/images/authors/ with SVG avatars for all 7 named authors
- Move inline <style> block out of author-bio.php into main.css
- Remap 20 articles from generic team names (UK Data Services Legal Team,
Analytics Team, Technical Team etc.) to matching named authors from the
author database (Sarah Chen, David Martinez, Michael Thompson, etc.)
- Add 5 new named authors to author-bio.php: Alex Kumar, David Thompson,
Emily Roberts, Michael Chen, Sarah Mitchell
- Eliminates author name/bio mismatch where team name showed but
Editorial Team bio/role rendered instead
- Rewrite meta descriptions on 4 high-impression articles (churn, compliance, data quality, ecommerce)
- Fix data-quality-validation-pipelines title & description to capture zero-click statistical validation queries
- Add FAQPage schema to churn prediction and data quality articles
- Add service CTA box to article-footer.php (appears on all blog articles)
- Add responsive CSS for CTA box in main.css
- Add nav.php include to 5 missing pages (cost-calculator, thank-you, 403, 404, 500)
- Add ErrorDocument directives to .htaccess for custom 403/404/500 pages
- Fix bogus accuracy stats (homepage, web-scraping, location pages)
- Fix invisible CTA buttons on property and financial service pages
- Add Google Fonts (Roboto Slab + Lato) to all pages missing it (tools, blog articles, error pages)
- Add active nav link highlighting (teal underline for current page)
- Improve footer contrast to WCAG AA, equal-height cards, mobile text scaling
- Consistent navbar-to-content spacing across all pages
- Bump cache version to v1.1.3
- Updated 30 additional files to use shared includes/nav.php
- Fixed references to old navbar.php and header.php nav includes
- All 52 pages now use single shared navigation
- Refactored navigation: all 44 pages now use shared includes/nav.php
- Added Free Tools link to navigation (was missing from 29+ pages)
- CSS readability: darker body text (#333), secondary text (#555), bolder hero subtitle
- CSS: darkened link colour (#148a72) for WCAG AA compliance
- CSS: increased stat label font size to 1rem
- Fixed industry-card hover white-on-white text bug
- Removed ICO Registered and Cyber Essentials claims (not yet registered)
- Cache version bumped to v1.1.2
- Rewrite meta titles to be more compelling with power words and 2026 dates
- Shorten meta descriptions to ~150 chars with clear CTAs
- Remove double-branding from title tags (was: title | UK Data Services | UK Data Services Blog)
- Update internal cross-links between related scraping/analytics articles
- Focus: top 10 pages by impressions from Google Search Console
- Hide Apache version (ServerTokens Prod)
- Add Permissions-Policy header
- Remove deprecated X-XSS-Protection
- Consolidate security headers to .htaccess only (remove duplicates from PHP)
- Deploy free tools: robots-analyzer, data-converter
- Deploy tools announcement blog post
- Update sitemap with new tools and blog post
