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Technical SEO Readiness Checklist
Check whether the site can support growth before adding more pages.
Use this checklist to identify structural friction across crawling, rendering, canonical URLs, index controls, information architecture, internal links, structured data and measurement.
The checklist
Seven checks before you add more pages.
Tick each check on your own site. Open items are the foundation work to do first.
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01Crawl access
0/4Confirm priority URLs return the intended response, are reachable through crawlable links, are not accidentally blocked and are represented consistently in sitemap and robots controls.
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02Rendering
0/2Verify that essential headings, body content, links and structured meaning exist in the server-delivered experience and do not disappear when client-side behavior fails.
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03Canonicalization
0/3Map parameters, duplicates, protocol and host variants, pagination and alternate URLs so one preferred URL can accumulate relevance and authority for each information asset.
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04Indexation
0/3Separate URLs that should rank from transactional, duplicate, thin or temporary routes that should remain out of search results.
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05Architecture and internal links
0/3Check whether important commercial and informational pages have descriptive contextual paths from relevant hubs and supporting pages.
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06Structured entities
0/2Use supported structured data only when it agrees with visible content and the real organization, article, service, location or other entity represented.
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07Measurement
0/2Define the baseline for organic visibility, landing-page performance, conversions and technical states so implementation can be re-measured.
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Common signs the foundation needs work
Important pages are hard to reach
Commercial URLs depend on weak navigation, search forms or isolated links instead of a coherent crawl path.
Several URLs represent one idea
Parameters, duplicates or overlapping pages make it unclear where relevance and authority should accumulate.
Content depends on fragile rendering
Critical meaning or links are unavailable when JavaScript execution is delayed or fails.
The sitemap and index strategy disagree
URLs are advertised for crawling while also being thin, temporary, duplicated or intentionally noindex.
Internal links do not express hierarchy
Pillars, supporting content, evidence and commercial pages are not connected through meaningful contextual anchors.
Reporting stops at rankings
The team cannot connect technical changes to qualified landing-page performance and business outcomes.
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