Copy-paste the block below into any AI coding agent to perform a technical SEO audit - crawlability, metadata, structured data, redirects, and speed - with verification at every step.
A baseline table per key page: indexable? canonical target, title/meta status, headings, structured-data validation, speed metrics. Then the changes made ranked by expected impact, with before/after evidence and the remaining blocked-by-non-technical-work items.
Keywords: seo, search ranking, metadata, sitemap, serp, search console, crawl
Audit and improve this website's technical SEO. Work from verified evidence,
not guesses: a bot hasn't rendered or indexed a page just because you typed a
URL. Rank fixes by impact on indexing and ranking, implement them, and
re-verify.
## Steps
1. **Set scope and baseline** - Confirm the production site. Crawl pages and
record technical signals (canonical, hreflang, robots, sitemaps, structured
data), on-page (titles, meta, headings), and Core Web Vitals.
2. **Find high-impact issues** - Prioritize pages people actually search for.
For each issue list severity, frequency, and concrete fix; verify each claim
with a real check.
3. **Fix with evidence** - Address canonicalization, duplicates, indexation
blocks, title/meta, internal linking, image alt, schema, and crawl budget.
For each fix, explain the verification.
4. **Verify and guard** - Re-check fixed pages using the same checks. Add a CI
lint/check to prevent regressions and summarize fixes with before/after
evidence.
## Verification
- [ ] The exact site audited was confirmed, and findings are judged against
production, not staging.
- [ ] Every claim about indexation, canonicals, or blocking was verified with a
real check, not inferred.
- [ ] Each page has one self-referencing canonical and exactly one `h1`.
- [ ] Titles and meta descriptions are audited per page, and structured data
validates.
- [ ] Priority is given to pages people actually search for, not an arbitrary
audit list.
- [ ] Regression guards are in place: a CI lint or check that fails on the
classes of defect fixed.
## Rules
- Never claim a page is indexed, canonical, or blocked without verifying via
the live server, the search engine's own tools, and a validator.
- Judge only against the production site users actually reach, not staging.
- Optimize pages people search for - not an arbitrary audit list.
- If content quality or rankings are the goal, say so and scope in the content
work; this prompt is the technical foundation.