SEO lab

This page is a public notebook. DayBloq is using its own marketing site as the first case study for product-led SEO: rank pages that help people understand Year in Pixels, then let that work teach the next client playbook. Numbers come from Google Search Console once they exist. No fake screenshots.

30 August 2026 — Foundation

Shipped on the Next.js repo:

• Canonical host set to https://www.daybloq.com in metadata, sitemap, and robots (the live site already 301s apex → www).
• Removed the 400-keyword meta stuffing on home, FAQ, and contact. Keywords now match the actual product.
• Added JSON-LD for Organization, WebSite, SoftwareApplication, and FAQPage.
• Added first-party pages: Year in Pixels, digital bullet journal, mood tracker, about, privacy, terms, and this lab.
• Added /llms.txt so answer engines have a clean machine summary.
• Homepage H1 is now “A Year in Pixels digital bullet journal”, with a 60-word definition under the old “Coloring to track your day” line.

Still on you before this counts as a case study: verify the property in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools on the www host, submit /sitemap.xml, and confirm in GSC that the new URLs are indexed (not just discovered).

Next content batch (not in this commit): comparison tables, color-key template, paper how-to, and a GSC weekly digest once 14 days of data exist.

How we will measure

• Coverage: submitted vs indexed.
• Queries: impressions and average position for “year in pixels” class terms.
• Clicks to Play / TestFlight from these pages (when we wire events).

Agent rule for this site: drafts may be proposed by an agent; nothing merges to production without a human pass. That loop is the product, not a slogan.