List archive types
Identify categories, tags, authors, dates and attachment pages exposed by the site. Determine which have a useful purpose for catalog buyers.
Choose owners for intent
Give important categories a clear task and keep overlapping archives from competing. Some archives can remain useful for browsing without being search targets.
Test after plugin changes
Plugins can alter canonical tags and navigation. Recheck representative pages when the theme or SEO plugin changes.
Put it to work
A practical next step
Make an archive inventory with keep, improve, consolidate or exclude decisions.
Keep the evidence with the decision.
Save the baseline, the reason for the change and the person responsible for checking it. This makes the work easier to review later and helps your team distinguish a verified improvement from an untested assumption.
This note provides a planning framework. The right implementation depends on your business model, market, website and available records. Where a decision involves scientific interpretation, clinical services or legal status, use the appropriate qualified reviewer rather than treating marketing guidance as approval.
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Review the service scope and use the briefing tool to describe your current situation.