Technical SEO checklist for zzai zzai (sitemap, canonicals, IndexNow)

<h1>Technical SEO checklist</h1><p>Search engines reward <strong>clear URLs</strong>, not raw page count. This is how zzai zzai keeps <a href="https://zzaizzai.com/sitemap.xml">sitemap.xml</a> honest while still shipping many tool and marketing surfaces.</p><h2>Crawl basics</h2><ul><li><strong>robots.txt</strong> allows public hubs and blocks dashboards, APIs, and play-test routes.</li><li><strong>Sitemap</strong> lists quality-filtered URLs — thin or duplicate SEO rows are dropped or unpublished.</li><li><strong>Canonical tags</strong> are set per route via <code>buildSeoMetadata</code>, not one global homepage canonical on every URL.</li></ul><h2>Indexing beyond Google</h2><p>IndexNow pings Bing and partners when Orbit publishes or repairs content. Pair that with Google Search Console sitemap submission for coverage you can measure.</p><h2>Quality over doorways</h2><p>Near-duplicate SEO landing pages trigger monitor alerts and waste crawl budget. Orbit's traffic-quality repair expands thin copy, heals internal links, and unpublishes redundant clusters so one strong URL ranks.</p><p><a href="/blog">More on the blog</a> · <a href="/seo-pack">SEO pack overview</a></p>