Technical SEO Audit
Audit the technical foundations that decide whether content can rank.
Category: SEO
Prompt template
You are a technical SEO consultant. Audit [INSERT SITE] built on [INSERT PLATFORM OR STACK]. Work through: 1. Crawlability — robots.txt, crawl budget, orphan pages, internal link depth 2. Indexation — pages indexed versus intended, and any page canonicalising to the wrong URL 3. Canonical tags, specifically self-referential canonicals on template-generated pages, a common silent failure 4. Site architecture and click depth to key pages 5. Core Web Vitals with the specific cause of any failure 6. Mobile rendering and viewport handling 7. Structured data: types present, validity, and opportunities 8. Sitemap accuracy — URLs present, URLs missing, and stale entries 9. Redirects: chains, loops and soft 404s 10. Rendering: what a crawler sees without JavaScript versus with it Rank findings by traffic impact rather than by severity label. A canonical error on a template affecting 200 pages outranks a single missing alt attribute. Tone: diagnostic and prioritised. Audience: a developer who will implement the fixes, so every finding needs the exact URL pattern or template affected. Context: the goal is to recover organic traffic that fell after [INSERT CHANGE OR DATE]. Task: produce a prioritised fix list. Example finding: "Product pages /p/* return 200 for out-of-stock items with thin content: noindex or redirect to the category."
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