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Search Console shows every query that reaches the site is navigational —
"codeindex", "code index", "code-index". Nobody arrives by describing the
problem, and the reason is vocabulary: Google autocomplete for this niche
is built around "codebase indexing" ("codebase indexing for claude code",
"codebase indexing mcp", "codebase indexing cursor", "codebase indexing for
llm"), a phrase that appeared exactly zero times on the site.
Add it where it counts — title, meta and OG/Twitter descriptions, the
JSON-LD description, and once in the hero lead — alongside the existing
"semantic code search", which stays: it is the more precise term and has
its own search demand. Positioning is untouched: still a self-hosted
platform, still a server, still not a framework.
This is deliberately a small change. The queries in this niche are won by
articles and repositories, not by landing-page metadata — the search results
for these terms are GitHub repos and Medium posts, not product sites. Meta
tags are the cheap half; the content work is the half that matters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
chore(site): name the category the way people search for it
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Promotion of #206 to
mainso the new metadata actually ships.Search Console shows every incoming query is navigational; the phrase the
niche actually searches for — "codebase indexing" — appeared nowhere on the
site. #206 adds it to the title, meta/OG/Twitter descriptions, JSON-LD and
the hero lead, without touching positioning or displacing "semantic code
search".
Test plan
curl -s https://codeindex.app/ | grep -o "<title>[^<]*"showsthe new title, and the hero paragraph reads "a self-hosted platform for
codebase indexing and semantic code search".
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