2026-08-166 min read
The Disclaimer Page Was Schema-Correct and Footer-Linked. Google Had Never Seen It.
AdSense flagged five legal pages as low-value content after the 8-pillar map closed. The technical audit came back clean: HTTP 200, index/follow, canonical self. The issue was that every one of those pages was linked exclusively from the footer. Footer links don't transfer crawl weight the way body prose does.
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