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Technical SEO priorities · thistletavern.com

Strong foundations. A short list of fixes.

We crawled just under 14,000 pages of your site. The fundamentals are sound. What we found is a set of specific, self-contained issues, most of them small development jobs. Nothing here needs a redesign or a replatform.

Prepared forThistle Tavern
Based onSite crawl, early Nov 2026
Prepared bySearchflex
Date10 November 2026

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thistletavern.com
The Thistle Tavern homepage banner: dice on a gaming table, under the line Scotland’s Premier Tabletop and TCG Destination
Your homepage today: “Scotland’s Premier Tabletop & TCG Destination”, rated 4.8/5 from 640 Judge.me reviews.
What the crawl found
  • 4fixes to make within two weeks
  • 3fixes to make within six weeks
  • 2ongoing habits to keep the catalogue clean

01 · What the crawl found

The basics are right. The leaks are specific.

We reviewed just under 14,000 pages in early November. The site has a clean HTTPS setup, a sensible structure and almost no redirect problems. What needs attention is a handful of contained problems, each with a clear fix.

Clean HTTPS setupSensible site structureAlmost no redirect problems
Dead booking links
103

Internal links to the broken events page (92) and room booking page (11).

Blank pages in Google’s reach
~3,400

Pickup availability fragments with no title or content.

Too heavy to read
76

Collection pages over Google’s 2MB reading limit.

Filter sprawl
~5,000

Extra URLs created by the rarity filters.

Your crawl, one square per 100 pages

A quarter of what Google can crawl is blank.

Every product variant gets its own pickup availability URL. The store uses them behind the scenes, but nothing stops Google crawling and indexing them, so they compete for attention with the pages that sell.

Blank pickup availability pages, around 3,400Everything else, about 10,500

Source: Searchflex crawl of thistletavern.com, early November 2026. Squares are rounded to the nearest 100 pages, so the total of 139 squares stands for “just under 14,000”.

02 · What people search for

The demand these fixes protect.

Monthly UK searches for the games you stock, and where thistletavern.com ranks today. Several of the broken, empty and oversized pages sit in exactly these categories.

03 · The fixes

Nine issues. Nine clear fixes.

Grouped by when we would tackle them. Flip any card for the fix, or switch to full detail to see what is happening and what a customer sees today.

Your hand: nine cards, one per fix. Tap a card to flip it.

04 · The plan

Two weeks, six weeks, then keep it clean.

Ordered so your developers can work straight through, with a re-crawl after each group before we move on. Take a turn to move along the board, or tap any space.

    How we work with your developers

    1

    Lists

    Full URL lists for every broken, blank and oversized page.

    2

    Specs

    Exact redirects, robots rules and template changes, ready to build.

    3

    Copy

    New titles and descriptions for the main collections, written by us.

    4

    Check

    A re-crawl after each group, so you see the fix, not just the ticket.

    05 · Going further

    With Search Console and GA4, we can put a number on it.

    This review is based on a crawl alone. That tells us what is technically wrong, but not what it is costing. With read access to Google Search Console and GA4, we can take it much further.

    01

    A deeper technical audit

    Every issue weighted by the traffic and revenue on the pages involved, so the work is ordered by value rather than by our judgement.

    02

    A content audit

    Which collections and products earn traffic, which have declined, and which compete with each other for the same searches.

    03

    Forecasts

    A traffic and revenue figure attached to each fix, and a baseline to measure against once it is live.

    Next step: the URL lists.

    We can send the full lists for the broken links, the blank variant pages and the oversized collections, so your developers can start on the first group straight away.

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