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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Shane Rounce · Ace Media
September 2026 work notes
Browse the lessons from September 2026. Each article explains the problem, the reasoning and the checks that helped.
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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September 2026
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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