Site Updates

A public record of major quality, data, and editorial improvements.

May 2, 2026

AdSense quality remediation pass

  • Curated XML sitemap to approval-safe pages and removed weak generated tool variants from submitted URLs.
  • Added stricter noindex rules for sparse word pages and stopped loading ads on noindex inventory.
  • Added editorial policy, corrections, source attribution, and per-word source notes.
  • Rebuilt the local lexical database and reseeded editorial insights, comparisons, blog posts, and guides.

May 2, 2026

Trust and review surfaces expanded

  • Linked data sources, editorial policy, corrections, contact, privacy, terms, and editorial team pages from global navigation surfaces.
  • Added direct attribution links for major source projects such as Wiktionary, WordNet, CMUdict, ConceptNet, Tatoeba, and Datamuse.
  • Added automated AdSense health checks for sitemap, ads.txt, robots.txt, canonical, and ad-suppression regressions.
  • Added a public advertising policy and refreshed privacy/terms advertising disclosures.

March 2026

Editorial content expansion

  • Published word guides, topic clusters, vocabulary hubs, quick writing packs, and word-of-the-day blog content.
  • Added usage insights, synonym comparisons, and word signal strips to strengthen lookup pages beyond raw lists.

Current Review Checklist

Before each advertising review request, we run unit tests, regenerate the XML sitemap, run the AdSense health check, build the production site, and verify that trust pages are ad-free while strong indexable word pages remain monetizable.

See also our Editorial Policy, Data Sources & Methodology, and Corrections & Feedback.