SEO Audit - May 6, 2026

TL;DR

Ahrefs MCP still returns Insufficient plan on every endpoint (day 9). Manual audit on the live site and the local repo.

The local source for both repos has every SEO fix from the past week applied: em dashes removed, meta keywords gone, hreflang in place, static canonical, JSON-LD schema, og:locale alternates, app.slateup.ai noindex + robots.txt. The blog folder now has 142 posts, all em-dash-free, including 6 new uncommitted ones.

The live site is still serving the build from May 2. That is now a 4-day deploy gap. Nothing I edit on disk takes effect until the local repo can pull, rebase, and push to origin.

No new source edits today. Today is purely a status check.

Ahrefs API status

Still insufficient plan on every tool tried: management-projects, site-audit-projects, site-audit-issues, site-explorer-domain-rating, site-explorer-metrics, site-explorer-backlinks-stats. Unchanged since Apr 28. To resume programmatic audits, the Ahrefs MCP plan needs to be upgraded.

Live site: slateup.ai

Check	Live (old build, May 2)	Local source
title	`Slate — AI-powered Interactive Classroom` (em dash)	`Slate, AI-powered Interactive Classroom`
og:title	Em dash version	Comma version
twitter:title	Em dash version	Comma version
description	`with AI classmates — not just a chatbot`	`with AI classmates, not just a chatbot`
meta keywords	Still present	Removed
hreflang	Missing	en + x-default present
Static canonical	Inline JS injects at runtime	Static `<link rel=canonical>` • inject-page-meta.mjs
og:locale:alternate	Missing	en_US, en_GB present
JSON-LD schema	Present (Org + WebSite)	Present
robots meta	index, follow	index, follow
robots.txt	Allow: / + sitemap (correct)	Same
Sitemap	110 URLs, all `lastmod 2026-05-02`	generate-sitemap.mjs uses today's date

Live site: app.slateup.ai

Check	Live	Local source
robots meta on /	None (homepage indexable)	`robots: { index: false, follow: false }` in app/layout.tsx
robots.txt	404	`User-agent: * / Disallow: /` in public/robots.txt
sitemap.xml	404 (correct for auth-only app)	n/a

Both changes are uncommitted in Slate-app. Branch is up to date with origin so a single commit + push will deploy.

What is on disk and ready to ship

slate-landing (3 commits ahead, 9 behind, lock blocking)

3 unpushed commits: hreflang, og locale alternates, per-post sitemap lastmod, schema.org JSON-LD, noscript fallback, May 4 blog posts, em dash + canonical fix.
Working tree: frontend/public/index.html and frontend/src/generated/blogRegistry.js modified, not staged.
6 new uncommitted blog posts (May 6 dated):
- ai-essay-writing-without-cheating-2026
- ai-for-jee-neet-preparation-2026
- ai-pomodoro-deep-work-routine-students-2026
- ai-summer-break-learning-students-2026
- ai-tutor-vs-human-tutor-cost-comparison-2026
- best-ai-note-taking-tools-for-students-2026
All 142 blog markdown files: zero em dashes (project rule satisfied).

Slate-app (clean, just needs a commit)

app/layout.tsx: noindex/nofollow added.