SEO Fixes: CyberWorld Builders — 2026-05-11

app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx

@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ export default async function BlogPost({ params }: BlogPostProps) {
   const title = metadata.title;
   const description = metadata.description || `${title} — an engineer's take on building real software. From CyberWorld Builders.`;
 
+  // Schema image must be an absolute URL — relative paths fail structured-data validation.
+  const toAbsoluteUrl = (path?: string) =>
+    !path ? null : path.startsWith('http') ? path : `https://cyberworldbuilders.com${path}`;
+  const schemaImageUrl =
+    toAbsoluteUrl(metadata.socialImage) ||
+    toAbsoluteUrl(metadata.headerImage) ||
+    'https://cyberworldbuilders.com/images/logo.png';
+
   // Build allPosts list for related posts and navigation
   const allPostEntries = getAllPosts();
   const allPosts = allPostEntries.map(p => ({
@@ -153,14 +161,12 @@ export default async function BlogPost({ params }: BlogPostProps) {
                   {new Date(metadata.publishedDate).toLocaleDateString('en-US', { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' })}
                 </time>
               </p>
-              {metadata.modifiedDate && metadata.modifiedDate !== metadata.publishedDate && (
-                <p className="text-[#00ff00]/50 text-xs">
-                  Updated{' '}
-                  <time dateTime={metadata.modifiedDate}>
-                    {new Date(metadata.modifiedDate).toLocaleDateString('en-US', { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' })}
-                  </time>
-                </p>
-              )}
+              <p className="text-[#00ff00]/50 text-xs">
+                Last updated{' '}
+                <time dateTime={metadata.modifiedDate || metadata.publishedDate}>
+                  {new Date(metadata.modifiedDate || metadata.publishedDate).toLocaleDateString('en-US', { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' })}
+                </time>
+              </p>
             </div>
           </div>
         </div>
@@ -174,7 +180,12 @@ export default async function BlogPost({ params }: BlogPostProps) {
               "@type": "BlogPosting",
               headline: title,
               description,
-              image: metadata.socialImage || "https://cyberworldbuilders.com/images/logo.png",
+              image: {
+                "@type": "ImageObject",
+                url: schemaImageUrl,
+                width: 1200,
+                height: 630,
+              },
               author: {
                 "@type": "Person",
                 name: "Jay Long",

app/blog/page.tsx

@@ -176,13 +176,14 @@ export default async function BlogIndex({ searchParams }: BlogIndexProps) {
         </div>
       )}
 
-      {/* CollectionPage Schema with freshness signals */}
+      {/* Blog schema with embedded BlogPosting entries — gives crawlers explicit
+          BlogPosting markup on the listing page in addition to per-post pages. */}
       <script
         type="application/ld+json"
         dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
           __html: JSON.stringify({
             "@context": "https://schema.org",
-            "@type": "CollectionPage",
+            "@type": "Blog",
             name: tagFilter
               ? `Posts tagged with "${tagFilter}" - CyberWorld Builders Blog`
               : "Blog — Real Engineering, Not AI Fluff | CyberWorld Builders",
@@ -201,8 +202,29 @@ export default async function BlogIndex({ searchParams }: BlogIndexProps) {
             publisher: {
               "@type": "Organization",
               name: "CyberWorld Builders",
-              logo: { "@type": "ImageObject", url: "https://cyberworldbuilders.com/images/logo.png" },
+              logo: { "@type": "ImageObject", url: "https://cyberworldbuilders.com/images/logo.png", width: 250, height: 250 },
             },
+            blogPost: posts.map((p) => {
+              const headerImage = p.headerImage && p.headerImage.trim() !== ''
+                ? (p.headerImage.startsWith('http') ? p.headerImage : `https://cyberworldbuilders.com${p.headerImage}`)
+                : 'https://cyberworldbuilders.com/images/logo.png';
+              return {
+                "@type": "BlogPosting",
+                headline: p.title,
+                description: p.description,
+                url: `https://cyberworldbuilders.com/blog/${p.slug}`,
+                mainEntityOfPage: { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": `https://cyberworldbuilders.com/blog/${p.slug}` },
+                datePublished: p.mtime.toISOString(),
+                dateModified: new Date(p.modifiedDate || p.mtime.toISOString()).toISOString(),
+                image: { "@type": "ImageObject", url: headerImage, width: 1200, height: 630 },
+                author: { "@type": "Person", name: "Jay Long", url: "https://cyberworldbuilders.com" },
+                publisher: {
+                  "@type": "Organization",
+                  name: "CyberWorld Builders",
+                  logo: { "@type": "ImageObject", url: "https://cyberworldbuilders.com/images/logo.png", width: 250, height: 250 },
+                },
+              };
+            }),
             mainEntity: {
               "@type": "ItemList",
               numberOfItems: allPosts.length,

app/blog/posts/revenant-hollow-never-stopped-being-alive.tsx

@@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ export default function Post() {
         <img
           src="/images/revenant-hollow-arduino-node-prototype.png"
           alt="A node prototype on a workbench: Arduino, breadboard, jumper wires, glowing blue LED"
-          className="w-full max-w-md mx-auto rounded"
+          width={793}
+          height={900}
+          className="w-full max-w-md mx-auto rounded h-auto"
         />
         <figcaption className="text-center text-sm text-gray-400 mt-2">
           A node prototype from years back. Still on the workbench.
@@ -215,7 +217,9 @@ export default function Post() {
         <img
           src="/images/revenant-hollow-haunt-fog-night.png"
           alt="Night-time haunt environment: a dimly lit structure with heavy fog drifting under a single warm overhead light"
-          className="w-full max-w-md mx-auto rounded"
+          width={510}
+          height={900}
+          className="w-full max-w-md mx-auto rounded h-auto"
         />
         <figcaption className="text-center text-sm text-gray-400 mt-2">
           The work doesn&apos;t live online. It lives outside, after dark, in the fog.

app/privacy/page.tsx

@@ -95,9 +95,12 @@ export default function PrivacyPolicy() {
               <h2 className="text-xl font-bold text-[#00ff00] mb-3">Contact</h2>
               <p>
                 For privacy-related questions or requests, contact us at{' '}
+                {/* email_off opts out of Cloudflare's email obfuscation, which otherwise rewrites mailto links to /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection — a page Cloudflare serves without a meta description, flagged by SEO crawlers. */}
+                <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: '<!--email_off-->' }} />
                 <a href="mailto:contact@cyberworldbuilders.com" className="text-[#00ff00] underline">
                   contact@cyberworldbuilders.com
-                </a>.
+                </a>
+                <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: '<!--/email_off-->' }} />.
               </p>
             </section>
           </div>

app/robots.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export default function robots(): MetadataRoute.Robots {
           'cohere-ai',
         ],
         allow: '/',
-        disallow: ['/admin/', '/api/'],
+        disallow: ['/admin/', '/api/', '/cdn-cgi/'],
       },
     ],
     sitemap: 'https://cyberworldbuilders.com/sitemap.xml',

app/services/ServicesIndexContent.tsx

@@ -84,12 +84,15 @@ export default function ServicesIndexContent() {
               Tell us what you're trying to solve. We'll figure out which combination
               of services gets you there fastest.
             </p>
+            {/* email_off opts out of Cloudflare's email obfuscation, which otherwise rewrites mailto links to /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection — a page Cloudflare serves without a meta description, flagged by SEO crawlers. */}
+            <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: '<!--email_off-->' }} />
             <a
               href="mailto:contact@cyberworldbuilders.com"
               className="inline-block px-8 py-4 bg-[#00ff00] text-[#1a1a1a] font-bold rounded-lg hover:bg-[#00cc00] transition-colors text-lg"
             >
               Start a Conversation
             </a>
+            <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: '<!--/email_off-->' }} />
           </div>
         </section>
       </main>

components/PostCard.tsx

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export default function PostCard({ slug }: PostCardProps) {
         <div className="relative flex-shrink-0 w-32 h-20 sm:w-40 sm:h-24 rounded overflow-hidden bg-black">
           <Image
             src={post.headerImage}
-            alt=""
+            alt={post.title}
             fill
             className="object-cover"
             sizes="(max-width: 640px) 128px, 160px"

components/SiteFooter.tsx

@@ -29,12 +29,15 @@ export default function SiteFooter() {
             <p className="text-sm font-bold text-[#00ff00] uppercase tracking-widest mb-4">Connect</p>
             <SocialLinks />
             <p className="mt-4 text-sm text-[#00ff00]/60">
+              {/* email_off opts out of Cloudflare's email obfuscation, which otherwise rewrites mailto links to /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection — a page Cloudflare serves without a meta description, flagged by SEO crawlers. */}
+              <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: '<!--email_off-->' }} />
               <a
                 href="mailto:contact@cyberworldbuilders.com"
                 className="hover:text-[#00ff00] transition-colors"
               >
                 contact@cyberworldbuilders.com
               </a>
+              <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: '<!--/email_off-->' }} />
             </p>
           </div>
         </div>