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Round 5 evidence pack

Before/after evidence for work items D-01 to D-07, mapped to the brief references in the tracking sheet. Everything below is on the staging site. Production still runs the old code until the D-08 deploy.

Staging dev-develop.mgcars.com Branch SEO-Fix-NOV Commit 5469501f Cloudflare deployment 9acad522 Reviewed 13 Nov 2026, 18:30 ICT
Status: all 7 items pass review on staging. Production deploy (D-08) is pending sign-off.

Summary

ItemWorkBrief refResult on staging
D-01Restore page titles and descriptions to the approved production valuesTD-13, all titlesPass
D-02Fix Car structured data (engine power, fuel type)T4, TD-08Pass
D-03Remove unconfirmed driving range from structured dataTD-07, TD-18Pass
D-04Single-hop redirect from / to /thTD-10Pass
D-05Charging-station list rendered in server HTMLTD-01Pass
D-06Expired promotions excluded from sitemap and llms.txtTD-04, T6Pass
D-07CMS scheduling assessment (report)T6Delivered
D-08Deploy to production and post-deploy checksAllPending sign-off

Live check: production vs staging

TD-01TD-02TD-03TD-10TD-11TD-12TD-14T1T2

Fetched by the reviewer from a browser on 13 Nov 2026 at 18:30 ICT. Canonical counts the self-referencing canonical tag; hreflang counts th, en and x-default links.

47 → 327URLs in /sitemap.xml
404 → 200/llms.txt
Allow → AI crawlersrobots.txt (staging is Disallow: / by design)
D-01

Page titles and descriptions restored

TD-13SEO copy owner: DigiHub
D-02

Car structured data fixed

T4TD-08
Schema.org validator result for /th/cars/mg-im6 showing 0 errors
Validator: /th/cars/mg-im6
Schema.org validator result for /th/cars/mg5 showing 0 errors
Validator: /th/cars/mg5
Schema.org validator result for /th/cars/mg-hs showing fuelType Plug-in Hybrid and 0 errors
Validator: /th/cars/mg-hs

All model pages (36 URLs, read from the live staging pages)

D-03

Unconfirmed driving range removed

TD-07TD-18

Range check, all model pages

D-04

Homepage redirect is one hop

TD-10
Before (staging and production, 13 Nov 14:45)
After (staging)
D-05

Charging stations are in the server HTML

TD-01

  
Production charging-station page on desktop
Desktop, before (production www.mgcars.com)
Staging charging-station page on desktop with station details open
Desktop, after (staging, station details open)
Charging-station page on mobile before the change
Mobile, before
Charging-station page on mobile after the change
Mobile, after
Mobile search for stations in Chonburi showing the map and filtered list
Mobile, search for Chonburi (after)
D-06

Expired promotions left out of the sitemap and llms.txt

TD-04T6
D-07

CMS scheduling assessment

T6

Full report: D-07-strapi-scheduling.md in the evidence folder (Thai).

Open items before and after production deploy

ItemOwnerNeeded
Review the 146 title and description changes (D-01 list)DigiHubBefore deploy, or accepted as-is by MG
Confirm whether MG5 is petrol or electric. If petrol, its title and description need new copy.MG Product, DigiHubAny time
MG IM6 power differs between languages in the CMS (Thai 271 + 505 PS, English 778 PS)MG ProductAny time
Confirm driving range figures for Urban and MG4 MY2026 so they can return to structured dataMG ProductAny time
Extend promotion end dates if promotions continue after 30 NovMG / CMS adminBefore 1 Dec 2026
Deploy to production, then check within 10 minutes that production has no noindexDot MatterAfter sign-off, on a working day