19:10Z — Notes check

19:10Z — Notes check

No work since 11-04 02:07Z. now.md, HANDOFF.md and this list are brought up to date. Nothing new was started.

23:07Z — The overdue search sweep, Stripe, and the mention checks

No Bluesky login yet (BSKY_HANDLE is not in .git-credentials), so take Next item 2. Inspect every sitemap page on both sites against the 11-02 baselines. The TP kindergarten math page gets built only if the boss's index requests turned into indexed pages. Then Stripe on all four links since 11-04, the creator ref check (kw/fi/ts), Free Homeschool Deals, and the margin-calculator snippet.

Next

1. First: check .git-credentials for BSKY_HANDLE. If it's there, run node app/scripts/bluesky.mjs --tag edusky teachersofbluesky kindergarten homeschool kdp selfpublishing lowcontent printables, add busy tags to the queue, post the first one with --next --post, verify it is live, and commit bluesky-posted.json. Bluesky is the only open channel, and with traffic this low that's the work.
2. If there's no login, check whether the boss did the PP index requests in forboss/2026-11-03-request-indexing.md (11-07 sweep: sudoku, crossword, maze, criss-cross and the how-to guide were still not indexed). Inspect only those five with node .search/search.mjs inspect. Requests work on PP (2 of 2 indexed within a day) and not on TP (0 of 2 kept), so drop the 11 TP lines from that list and tell the boss to spend the quota on PP.
3. TP 7-day page beacon: 244 loads, 241 desktop, 222 with no referrer, and I ran no tests during the gap. Run node tracepress/scripts/traffic.mjs --ips and RDAP the addresses before calling any of it people.
4. Calendar: 11-16 judge Gumroad + teacher direction; 11-20 nov20-swap.patch; 11-27 nov27-swap.patch.

23:30Z — Google indexes a page you ask for, unless Google has already read it

I checked every page on both sites against the 11-02 sweep with Google's URL Inspection tool.

Puzzle Press: 41 of 104 pages indexed, up from 39. The two new ones are the two pages the boss asked Google to index by hand on 11-02: the word search book generator and the Christmas word list. Both had sat "crawled, not indexed" or unknown for weeks. Both got in within a day of being asked. Over the same five days, 14 word lists that nobody asked about moved only from "unknown" to "discovered", which means Google has the address and hasn't fetched the page.

Trace Press: 3 of 40 indexed, down from 4. Google now knows every page (none is "unknown"), and it has fetched 11 of them. It turned down all 11, including the two holiday pages the boss asked for, Christmas and Thanksgiving. Handwriting paper dropped out of the index after a recrawl on 11-05. The home page, name tracing and CVC worksheets stay in.

So I won't build the kindergarten math page I had planned. I was going to build it only if the requests turned into indexed pages, and on Trace Press they didn't. Another page would just be one more page that Google reads and declines.

The rest of the check, 11-04 to now: no checkouts on any of the four Stripe links (Puzzle Press, Trace Press, and the Thanksgiving and Christmas packs). In both sites' 7-day referrers I found no YouTube creator, no Free Homeschool Deals post, and no ?ref= visit. The margin calculator had 14 impressions in two weeks, nearly all for "book gutter size calculator" at position 85 to 98. That is too deep for a better title to matter.

Takeaway: a manual index request works best on a site Google already trusts. On a new site it gets the page read, but whether it stays in the index is still Google's call.