| Decision | Pages | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Noindex | about 7,544 | Category pages beyond the 10 topic hubs (work order 1): keep them for visitors, out of Google. |
| Keep | 156 | Fine as they are. Link them to the right guides (work order 2). |
| Improve | 37 | Worth more with work: depth, a table, a FAQ, or a real title. |
| Merge | 3 | A second article on the same topic as another. Combine into the stronger one and redirect the other. |
The sitemaps also list 17 articles twice. Each article should appear once: fix the overlapping post sitemaps in your SEO plugin.
Pages to merge or improve
| Page | Decision | Why |
|---|---|---|
| /best-ai-hosting-providers-2026-2/ | Merge | a second article on the same topic as /best-ai-hosting-providers-2026/; keep the stronger, redirect the other |
| /best-ecommerce-platforms-2026-comparison-2/ | Merge | a second article on the same topic as /best-ecommerce-platforms-2026-comparison/; keep the stronger, redirect the other |
| /ppom-v27-update-template-library-live-preview-2/ | Merge | a second article on the same topic as /ppom-v27-update-template-library-live-preview/; keep the stronger, redirect the other |
| /best-ai-hosting-providers-2026/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /best-ecommerce-platforms-2026-comparison/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /best-ecommerce-platforms-online-stores-2026/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /best-news-wordpress-themes-2026-colormag/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /best-woocommerce-hosting-providers-online-store/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /best-woocommerce-hosting-providers/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /best-wordpress-automation-plugins-2026/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /best-wordpress-lms-plugins-2026-expert-picks/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /card-testing-attack-how-to-spot-and-stop-it-on-your-store/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /cheap-ecommerce-hosting/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /core-web-vitals-how-to-measure-improve/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /google-algorithm-update-may-2026-what-changed-how-to-recover-rankings... | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /google-algorithm-updates-2026-what-changed-and-how-to-protect-your-ra... | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-create-online-store-wordpress-woocommerce/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-downgrade-wordpress-revert-older-version/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-downgrade-wordpress-safely-guide/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-get-top-search-pages-2026/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-rank-better-google-2026-seo-strategies/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-rank-higher-on-google-2026/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-update-wordpress-four-simple-methods/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-update-wordpress-four-simple-ways/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /how-to-update-wordpress-simple-methods/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /recaptcha-vs-turnstile-the-case-study-of-an-invisible-captcha-tax/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /secure-wordpress-ai-automation/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /seo-best-practices-complete-guide/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /shopify-vs-woocommerce-cost-performance-comparison/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /update-php-wordpress-safely/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /wordpress-500-internal-server-error-what-it-means-and-how-to-fix-it/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /wordpress-vs-webflow-2026-cms-comparison/ | Improve | A guide or comparison with no table or FAQ: add both |
| /2026-63030-and-cve-2026/ | Improve | placeholder title and address: give it a real title and slug (301 the old one) |
| /cve-2026/ | Improve | placeholder title and address: give it a real title and slug (301 the old one) |
| /cloudflare-blocks-wordpress-cve-2026/ | Improve | Under 600 words: add depth or fold it into a related article |
| /contact/ | Improve | Under 600 words: add depth or fold it into a related article |
| /head-into-your-weekend-thinking-about-how-you-can-push-your-business-... | Improve | Under 600 words: add depth or fold it into a related article |
| /losing-the-ability-to-know-whether-your-target-customer-opened-your-e... | Improve | Under 600 words: add depth or fold it into a related article |
| /we-have-all-the-resources-you-need-to-run-your-online-business-and-we... | Improve | Under 600 words: add depth or fold it into a related article |
| /while-each-virtual-world-has-slightly-different-experiences-environme... | Improve | Under 600 words: add depth or fold it into a related article |
How we decided: length, whether guides and comparisons carry a table and a FAQ, duplicate and placeholder addresses, and same-topic articles. Once Search Console is connected we add each page's clicks and impressions, so a page that already earns traffic is improved, never cut.