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Improve SEO descriptions across 177 pages#4993

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Summary

Audited all MDX files for SEO metadata quality and updated frontmatter descriptions across 177 pages to meet search engine optimization best practices.

Changes

  • Updated all descriptions to fall within the 130-155 character range (previously most were under 100 characters)
  • Resolved one duplicate description (guides/navigation.mdx and organize/navigation.mdx shared the same text)
  • Each description now uniquely summarizes the page content with relevant search terms
  • No titles required changes — all were already under 60 characters and descriptive

Why

Short descriptions (under 130 characters) are frequently ignored by Google in favor of auto-generated snippets. Longer, more specific descriptions improve click-through rates from search results and provide better context for AI answer engines.

Validation

  • mint validate passes
  • mint broken-links passes
  • Only frontmatter descriptions were modified — no page content was changed

Note

Low Risk
Low risk because changes are limited to documentation frontmatter metadata; no runtime code or page content is modified.

Overview
Improves SEO metadata by rewriting description frontmatter across a large set of MDX pages to be more descriptive, keyword-relevant, and less duplicative.

No documentation body content, titles, or functional behavior is changed—only the meta descriptions used for search snippets and AI indexing outputs like llms.txt.

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@ethanpalm ethanpalm merged commit f8e015f into main Mar 31, 2026
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