fix(seo): canonical URLs on marketing pages + drop same-URL hreflang#17
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Only destination pages set a canonical before this. Home, /map, /best-time and the feature pages had none, so query-param variants (the map syncs week/year into the URL) risked being indexed as separate URLs. Add explicit absolute canonicals, matching the destination-page convention. Also removes the static-page hreflang alternates from the sitemap. They listed en/de/es/fr/x-default all pointing at the same URL (language is negotiated, not path-prefixed), which signals nothing to search engines. Destination clusters with genuinely distinct de/en slugs are unchanged; destinations without a German exonym now correctly emit no alternates. /compare is intentionally left out of the sitemap and uncanonicalised: it is robots noindex (content depends on the visitor's saved places). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
Canonical-tag and hreflang correctness for the marketing pages.
Canonical tags
Before this, only destination pages emitted a
<link rel="canonical">. Home,/map,/best-timeand the 7 feature pages had none./mapin particular syncsweek/yearinto the URL query string (useUrlSync), so those variants could be indexed as separate URLs. Added explicit absolute canonicals, following the existing destination-page convention (https://packedplaces.com/...). The map canonical lives in the(map)/map/layout.tsxserver layout because the page itself is a client component.Sitemap hreflang
Removed the static-page hreflang alternates. They listed
en/de/es/fr/x-defaultall pointing at the same URL (locale is negotiated, not path-prefixed), which signals nothing to search engines. Destination clusters with genuinely distinct de/en slugs are unchanged; destinations without a German exonym now correctly emit no alternates instead of a same-URL set.Intentionally not changed
/comparestays out of the sitemap and gets no canonical: it isrobots: { index: false }(content depends on the visitor's saved places). So its absence from the sitemap is correct, not a bug.Verify
npx tsc --noEmitandeslintpass on all changed files.robots.test.tspasses. (The repo's component render tests fail onReact.act is not a functiononmaintoo — a pre-existing testing-library/React env mismatch, unrelated to this PR.)