SEO: backfill meta description fixes and add missing crawler meta tags to 2685 older news pages#2974
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Replaces truncated (ellipsis-ending) and too-short meta descriptions with complete, newsworthy, language-appropriate text (no '…') across: - 8 truncated: ai-strategy fr/nl/es/ja, evening-analysis en/sv/zh, interpellationssvar-en, ai-facial-recognition-en - 5 too-short: ai-strategy-ja, committee-reports-sv Mar26, govt-propositions-ar, index_ja, index_ko - 8 already-complete but flagged: immigration-reform-en, committee-reports-en, legislative-package-nl, security-detention-en, committee-reports-sv Apr6, breaking-1416 es/sv, interpellationssvar-da Updates all three meta variants per file (name=description, og:description, twitter:description) to match. Co-authored-by: pethers <1726836+pethers@users.noreply.github.com>
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Two SEO audit failures addressed: 21 pages flagged for "missing" meta descriptions (root cause: trailing
…U+2026 treated as truncated by the audit tool), and 2685 older news pages missing crawler directives that were introduced in a later template revision.Meta description fixes (21 pages)
…) with complete sentencesname="description",og:description,twitter:descriptionindex_ja.html,index_ko.html) and language variants across EN/SV/DA/ES/FR/NL/AR/JA/ZHCrawler meta tag backfill (2685 older news pages)
Pages rendered before
scripts/render-lib/chrome/head.tswas updated to emit these tags were missing them entirely. Added to every affectednews/*.html:Post-fix verification: 0 pages missing
robots, 0 missingnews_keywordsacross all 6087news/*.htmlfiles.