MiningWorld Russia

Why it matters

These were in the 25 August report and are still open. Each one can be clicked today, and each lands the reader on a “page not found” screen — or, for the last one, an “access denied” message — instead of what it promises. A dead link costs whatever the click was about to do, and search engines quietly mark a site down for them too.

Five are an address typed slightly differently from the real one: /about-mining-world/, with a hyphen the page does not have, and enquire-to-exhibit for exhibiting-enquiry. Two buttons on the Lead Scanning page point at our internal preview copy of the site, which visitors cannot open.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page named below → the button or link in the body

Why it matters

The registration form that was not working in August is gone, and the page now shows a “Registration opens soon” notice instead — that part is fixed. It left one thing behind: a Dynamic Columns block with no title and no columns, probably a remnant of the old registration form. It shows as an empty band about 240 pixels tall straight under the page header.

We are also making the site skip empty blocks of this kind everywhere, but that will not be live straight away. Deleting this one in Strapi tidies the page as soon as you publish.

Where to change it

Strapi → Pages → Visitor Registration → the Dynamic Columns block between the page header and “Registration opens soon” → delete it

Why it matters

These were in the 25 August report and are still open. Three articles have been published twice, at two addresses — the second copy has “-1” on the end. Google sees the same story twice, has to guess which to show, and splits whatever credit the article earns between the two.

A fourth article shows what happens when a duplicate is deleted without tidying up. “Important Issues Of Labor Protection In The Magazine ‘Labor Defense’” has a canonical address set in its SEO settings — a note to Google saying “the real copy of this page is over there” — and it points at the “-1” copy, which has since been removed. Google is told the real article lives at an address that does not exist, so it keeps this one out of search results. Clear that field and the site uses the article’s own address.

For each pair, unpublish the copy you do not need. If both are wanted, give them clearly different headlines.

Where to change it

Strapi → Articles → the article record

Why it matters

These pages are public and listed for search engines, but nobody should land on them from a search result. Ticking noIndex tells Google not to list a page, and takes it out of the list of pages the site hands to search engines, at the next publish.

Once they are hidden they need no description, so they are left out of the description items below.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page → SEO → tick noIndex

Why it matters

These point at other organisations’ websites, and the pages behind them have been removed or no longer open. Three are on Plan Your Travel, the page a visitor opens when they are ready to spend money on the trip.

The three hotel cards need a person to find each hotel’s current page, or to take the card off. The Solyarka link has a known fix, and the Y&H Cargo one needs a quick check in a browser first.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page named below → the link or button

Why it matters

The description is the grey text under your link in a Google result. Without one, Google picks a sentence from the page at random, which is rarely the one you would have chosen.

The suggested wording below is a starting point, not a decision about how you want to sound. Please read each one before you use it.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page record → SEO → Meta Description

Why it matters

Each gallery has a Short Text field. Whatever you type there appears under the gallery title on the page and also becomes its description in Google, so one edit fixes both. On all 21 galleries it currently says just “MiningWorld”, which gives a searcher nothing to go on.

The wording below is a starting point. Please read it before you use it.

Where to change it

Strapi → Media Gallery → the gallery → Short Text

Why it matters

Two pages say the same thing — “Interested in partnering with us?” — so Google sees one page twice. Beyond the Surface shares its description with its own thank-you page, and the Brazilian exhibitors page has a title where its description should be.

The suggested wording is a starting point. Please read it before you use it, and have the Brazil team check the Portuguese.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page record → SEO → Meta Description

Why it matters

Alternative text is a short written description of a picture. A screen reader reads it aloud to a blind visitor, and Google uses it to understand the image. When the picture is also a link, it is the only name the link has. The ApexBrasil banner and the Compliance Report banner on the homepage have none, so each link is announced as nameless.

Where to change it

Strapi → Media Library → the image → Alternative Text

Why it matters

The page has a Tabs block whose only tab has a blank title, so a button with no words on it appears above the cards, and a screen reader cannot name it either.

Give the tab a title — Advertising Options, say — or replace the one-tab block with a plain section.

Where to change it

Strapi → Pages → Advertising Details → the Tabs block

Why it matters

Every visitor downloads these at full size, including anyone on a phone on mobile data, and Google counts page speed when it decides where to rank you. We are separately making the site use the smaller versions of photographs that Strapi already stores, which removes most of the image weight with no work from you — so the long list of oversized photographs from 25 August is no longer yours.

That does not help PNG images: Strapi’s smaller PNGs come out even bigger. So these are a re-upload job. Re-save each one as JPG or WebP (squoosh.app or tinypng.com work well; aim for under about 200 kB) and replace the file in the Media Library. The table lists the heaviest on each page.

Where to change it

Strapi → Media Library → replace the file with a compressed JPG or WebP

Why it matters

Your orange buttons use white text, and so do some orange figures and the titles and submit buttons on the form pages. Measured the way accessibility guidelines measure it, white on your orange (#f08400) scores 2.6 to 1 against a recommended minimum of 4.5 to 1: readable for most people, hard for anyone with low vision or a phone screen in sunlight, and a fail in any accessibility audit. It shows up on 41 pages.

Nothing is broken, and the site can stay as it is. Changing it would alter how the brand looks, so it is your call.

Where to change it

Tell us which option you prefer — the change itself is ours to make