eCommerce
Check product analytics after performance changes
An anonymous debugging note about product grids that looked correct after caching while their product-list analytics data had gone missing.
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Shane Rounce · Ace Media
Work notes from 2026
Browse the lessons from work carried out in 2026. Each article shows its work date and publication date separately.
Practical notes from my development and SEO work. Arranged by when the work happened; this collection was published on 6 October 2026.
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October 2026
September 2026
eCommerce
A simpler product configurator can be the better choice
What I learnt from moving configurable products back to a standard WooCommerce form while preserving existing choices and a route back.
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Content strategy
Keep, refresh or retire? Give old content a proper review
How I review older content using evidence per page, with clear choices and reversible actions instead of deleting everything before a date.
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Technical SEO
Robots.txt and noindex solve different problems
Why a crawl block can get in the way of removing a page from search, and how I check WordPress search visibility from the outside.
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Content strategy
Investigate what an orphan-page report actually found
An anonymous case note on checking actual routes into old content before calling it orphaned or deciding to remove it.
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Technical SEO
Tracking links are not automatically new pages
How I decide which URL variations deserve their own identity, and keep canonical links, navigation and sitemaps consistent.
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eCommerce
Put product documents beside the decision
How I brought public specifications and component information into a product configurator, while keeping a readable overview of the whole product.
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August 2026
Measurement
Put useful search data where editors already work
How I use page-level Search Console information to make editorial decisions clearer without turning the editor into another analytics dashboard.
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eCommerce
Show useful product options while people browse
An anonymous case note on showing selected variations in a product grid without overwhelming it or losing the customer’s choice when they open a product.
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July 2026
Technical SEO
A sitemap should tell the truth about your pages
Why I check sitemap entries, modification dates and their actual responses instead of treating a working XML page as the whole job.
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Technical SEO
Give structured data one clear owner
How I organise schema output so the page, author, publisher and specialist content describe one coherent thing.
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June 2026
Technical SEO
When a blank setting breaks your social previews
An anonymous debugging note on empty template values, disappearing social tags and testing beyond the homepage.
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Measurement
Your speed score and your visitors are measuring different things
How I separate lab tests, real-user field data and missing measurements when reviewing website performance.
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May 2026
WordPress development
An editor should explain what went wrong
An anonymous case note about dependent fields, stale selections and a WordPress editor that reported a failure before it had loaded its data.
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April 2026
eCommerce
Test the first add to basket from a fresh browser
Why I test the whole first-time shopping journey, from choosing a variation to finding the same item in the basket after a refresh.
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Technical SEO
Change URL structures without breaking the journey
The checks I make around archive URL changes: routing, redirects, tracking links, pagination and the links a site generates itself.
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eCommerce
Product options need useful loading states
What I learnt while loading product variations in smaller batches: keep the page useful, explain delays and make failure different from being out of stock.
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