Sort Controls by Their Search Job
Distinguish technical controls by the search outcome they are designed to produce.
Sort each control or situation into its primary search job. Crawl blocking Index control Signal consolidation Move or removal robots.txt Disallow for low-value filtered URLs Allow CSS and JS resources needed for rendering meta robots noindex on a crawlable temporary page X-Robots-Tag noindex for a PDF that should not appear rel canonical from duplicate sort page to clean category URL Only canonical URLs listed in XML sitemaps 301 redirect from old article URL to equivalent new article URL 410 for a retired page with no equivalent replacement sort-buckets control-chip-row marigold-misuse-callout
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