Session Overview

Unattended scheduled task (sitemap-health-check). Goal: audit aguiarinjurylawyers.com XML sitemaps for completeness, orphan pages, duplicate URLs, and structural issues; export the session to this Knowledge Base; message Sam on Slack with an inline summary and recommendations; offer to make fixes on approval. This run is report-only. No live-site changes were made.

What Was Accomplished

Full inventory built across the three child sitemaps in sitemap_index.xml: post-sitemap.xml (176 URLs), page-sitemap.xml (285 URLs), category-sitemap.xml (17 URLs). Total 478 indexed URLs. Findings written to a markdown report (see Files). Two duplicate pairs confirmed live (both members return HTTP 200 with near-identical content):

  1. /practice-areas/spinal-cord/ vs /practice-areas/spinal-cord-2/ , both spinal cord injury lawyer pages.
  2. /locations/elizabethtown/ vs /locations/elizabethtown-ky/ , both Elizabethtown PI pages.

Also confirmed: /sa-cta-get-more-get-it-faster/ is a reusable CTA snippet wrongly published and indexed as a post.

Six findings documented with severity: (1) duplicate/cannibalizing URLs, roughly 13 clusters, HIGH; (2) inconsistent URL architecture, city pages split across /locations/, root, and post type, plus two parallel truck taxonomies, MEDIUM-HIGH; (3) lastmod signal degraded by a sitewide re-stamp dated May 17 to 22 2026, MEDIUM; (4) thin or non-content pages indexed, MEDIUM; (5) orphan-page risk and missing hub pages, MEDIUM; (6) category sitemap low-value, LOW. Minor: robots.txt has two separate User-agent: * blocks that should be merged.

What Was Tried and Didn't Work

Bash sandbox returned ENOSPC (no space left on device) on every command, so programmatic dedup was not possible; manual analysis plus targeted live WebFetch verification was used instead. Glob timed out twice (20s) on the mnt folder, so the report was written directly to the Projects root with a descriptive filename. First WebFetch hallucinated the post-sitemap total as 396; a second fetch definitively counted 176. Report uses 176 and notes this in Limitations.

Decisions Made

Report-only run, no live changes, per task instruction and Sam's destructive-action rule. Report written to Projects root rather than a subfolder because Glob could not map subfolders. 176 used as the post-sitemap count after verification.

Files and Locations

Sitemap-Health-Audit_aguiarinjurylawyers_2026-05-22.md , in the selected Projects folder. Final. The complete deliverable: scorecard, inventory, six findings, limitations, and eight prioritized next actions.

Current State

Audit complete. No fixes applied. All recommendations pending Sam's approval. Orphan detection is partial: a true orphan list needs a full internal-link crawl (Screaming Frog), which the ENOSPC sandbox blocked this run.

Open Questions

Which URL in each duplicate pair to keep and 301 (recommend keeping the clean slug: /spinal-cord/ and /elizabethtown-ky/, redirecting the other). Whether to deindex vs delete the CTA snippet. Whether to consolidate the two truck taxonomies.

Recommended Next Actions

  1. Approve and apply 301s for the two confirmed duplicate pairs. 2. Deindex /sa-cta-get-more-get-it-faster/. 3. Run a full Screaming Frog crawl for a true orphan list. 4. Standardize city-page URLs under /locations/. 5. Merge the two robots.txt User-agent blocks. 6. Decide on truck taxonomy consolidation.