- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fix .htaccess to allow individual service pages instead of redirecting all to project-types
- Add /services/web-scraping page with full content, schema markup, and SEO optimization
- Add /contact redirect to /quote (301)
- Update project-types.php title to remove C# jargon
- Add trust badges section to footer (GDPR, ICO, Cyber Essentials, UK Based)
- Add Web Scraping to footer services list
- Fix color contrast: change #179e83 to #148069 for WCAG AA compliance
- Add ARIA attributes to mobile nav toggle (aria-expanded, aria-controls)
- Implement focus trap on mobile menu with Escape key support
- Add aria-hidden to decorative hero SVG
- Add ARIA validation to contact form (aria-invalid, aria-describedby)
- Fix touch target sizes (notification close button 48x48px)
- Fix form session expiration by relaxing timestamp validation
- Add cache busting (v1.1.0) to JS/CSS files
- Update service worker cache version to force refresh
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- Add leadership team section to about.php with 4 team members
- Add visible FAQ section to homepage with accordion functionality
- Fix broken blog category link (legal-&-compliance → compliance)
- Add Twitter Card and og:image meta tags to data-cleaning.php and quote.php
- Add social links to 5 pages missing them (data-cleaning, quote, case-studies, blog/search, faq-enhanced)
- Standardize LinkedIn URLs across 24 blog files (remove www prefix)
- Fix social media placeholder links across 8 pages
- Optimize meta descriptions on 3 service pages (under 160 chars)
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Phase 1 - Schema Markup:
- Add reusable schema components in /includes/schema/
- organization-schema.php for site-wide Organization structured data
- service-schema.php with generator function and predefined configs
- local-business-schema.php for location pages with geo coordinates
- faq-schema.php with FAQPage generator and common FAQ sets
- article-schema.php for blog posts with BlogPosting schema
- review-schema.php with AggregateRating and testimonials
Phase 6 - Meta Tags & Helpers:
- meta-tags.php: Complete meta tag generator (OG, Twitter, article)
- canonical.php: URL normalization and canonical tag helper
- url-config.php: Centralized URL mapping for internal linking
Phase 7 - Internal Linking Components:
- related-services.php: Cross-linking component for service pages
- location-cta.php: Location links component for service pages
Phase 3 - New Service Pages:
- property-data-extraction.php: UK property data extraction service
- financial-data-services.php: FCA-aware financial data services
Phase 5 & 8 - Technical SEO:
- Update robots.txt with improved blocking rules
- Update sitemap.php with clean URLs and new pages
- Update sitemap-services.xml with new service pages
- Add new services to footer navigation
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SEO Improvements:
- Add Twitter/OG meta tags to gdpr-compliance.php and terms-of-service.php
- Add author bios with E-E-A-T signals to all blog articles
- Add breadcrumb schema markup to key pages
- Create new service pages: price-monitoring.php, competitive-intelligence.php
- Create location pages: london.php, manchester.php, birmingham.php
- Update sitemap.xml with new pages
UI/CSS Improvements:
- Move testimonials section from inline styles to CSS classes
- Standardize hero gradients to #144784 → #179e83 across all pages
- Unify card border styles to border-left: 4px solid #179e83
- Fix CTA gradient direction consistency on location pages
- Standardize breadcrumb colors to #144784
- Replace all purple accent colors (#667eea, #764ba2) with brand colors
- Add CSS variables for brand consistency in main.css
Code Cleanup:
- Delete 6 emergency CSS fix files (button-emergency-fix.css, etc.)
- Remove related-articles-fix.css references from blog articles
- Consolidate styles into main.css
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