Getting Ready for Review
Editorial weight
Six long-form pieces went live on 30 June; strategy, decision theory, methodology, privacy, and two essays on why leave matters. They now live in the Articles section. A calculator alone is invisible to informational search; the writing is what makes the site a destination rather than a widget.
Review discipline
Preparing for advertising review turned up a subtlety: the standard ad-loader script, present before approval, renders empty slots that a reviewer can read as broken layout. It was replaced with the non-rendering verification meta tag; the site presents itself for review with no ad code at all beyond ads.txt and the account tag. Custom 403, 404, and 500 pages arrived in the same pass, styled as the site, on a pattern borrowed from a sibling project. A metadata polish verified an external SEO checklist against current Google guidance before anything was changed.
The grape that should have been an umbrella
Manual review caught what no automated check did: the favicon was a grape glyph, not the beach umbrella the header actually uses. A full favicon and app-icon set, plus a social-media card pack, was regenerated from the exact umbrella-beach glyph. The lesson generalised into the portfolio standard: icon sets derive from the site’s actual brand mark, and social cards get checked at card aspect ratio by a human.
Lock, fork, respond
Version 3 is now a locked artifact; version 4 opened as the working copy and absorbed the response to Google’s review report: expanded privacy, advertising, editorial-standards, and disclaimer copy. And as of 4 July the publish step is automated; a deploy script commits the mirrored site and pushes with a scoped token, no manual upload, refusing to push if the histories have diverged.