seo-auditing

What the source does

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• NetworkNone observedNo outbound calls in the source
• ShellNone observedNo commands run in the source
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Five audit layers

Gates applied: no behavioural pass.

Audit 0.4.1 · source sha 94fd3401595c · 29 Oct 2026Report an issue or request a re-scan

• Publisherspencerpauly GitHub userOwner of the repository this skill is read from
• Source folderspencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills/resources/seo-auditingThe exact folder we audited
• LicenceCC0-1.0As the repository states it
• Commit pinned for this verdict94fd3401595cA new audit runs when the source changes
• Repository statusNot archivedLast push 88 days ago
• Sandboxed runNot runSkills are read, not executed; layer L4 is skipped

Its description: Audit technical SEO — meta tags, structured data, Open Graph, sitemaps, robots.txt, performance, and accessibility signals.

---
name: seo-auditing
description: Audit technical SEO — meta tags, structured data, Open Graph, sitemaps, robots.txt, performance, and accessibility signals.
user-invocable: true
---

# SEO Auditing

Check and fix technical SEO issues in a web project.

## Audit Checklist

### 1. Meta Tags

Every page must have:

```html
<head>
  <title>Page Title — Site Name</title>
  <meta name="description" content="155 chars max, compelling summary" />
  <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/page" />
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
</head>
```

Check for:
- [ ] Unique `<title>` per page (50-60 chars)
- [ ] Unique `<meta description>` per page (120-155 chars)
- [ ] Canonical URL set (avoids duplicate content)
- [ ] No `noindex` on pages that should be indexed

### 2. Open Graph & Social

```html
<meta property="og:title" content="Page Title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Description for social sharing" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/og-image.png" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://example.com/page" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
```

- OG image should be 1200x630px
- Test with https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ and https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

### 3. Structured Data (JSON-LD)

Add schema markup for rich search results:

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Article",
  "headline": "Article Title",
  "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Author Name" },
  "datePublished": "2026-04-10",
  "image": "https://example.com/image.jpg"
}
</script>
```

Common types: `Article`, `Product`, `FAQPage`, `Organization`, `BreadcrumbList`

Test with: https://search.google.com/test/rich-results

### 4. Sitemap

`/sitemap.xml` should:
- List all indexable pages
- Include `<lastmod>` dates
- Exclude pages with `noindex`
- Be under 50MB / 50,000 URLs per file
- Be referenced in `robots.txt`

### 5. Robots.txt

`/robots.txt` should:
```
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
```

- Not block CSS/JS files (search engines need them to render)
- Not block pages you want indexed

### 6. Performance (Core Web Vitals)

| Metric | Good | Needs Work |
|--------|------|------------|
| LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) | < 2.5s | > 4.0s |
| INP (Interaction to Next Paint) | < 200ms | > 500ms |
| CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) | < 0.1 | > 0.25 |

Key fixes:
- Compress and lazy-load images
- Preload critical fonts and CSS
- Avoid layout shifts from dynamic content
- Use `next/image` or equivalent for automatic optimization

### 7. Crawlability

- [ ] All important pages are reachable from internal links
- [ ] No orphan pages (pages with zero internal links)
- [ ] No redirect chains (A→B→C should be A→C)
- [ ] 404 pages return proper HTTP 404 status
- [ ] No broken internal links

### 8. Accessibility (SEO Signals)

- [ ] All images have `alt` text
- [ ] Heading hierarchy is correct (one `h1`, then `h2`, `h3` etc.)
- [ ] Links have descriptive text (not "click here")
- [ ] Language attribute set: `<html lang="en">`

## Quick Automated Check

```bash
# Check robots.txt
curl -s https://example.com/robots.txt

# Check sitemap
curl -s https://example.com/sitemap.xml | head -20

# Check meta tags
curl -s https://example.com | grep -E '<title>|<meta name="description"|<link rel="canonical"'

# Check HTTP status codes
curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}" https://example.com/page
```

## Tips

- Run Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools → check SEO score
- Google Search Console is the source of truth for indexing issues
- Mobile-friendliness is a ranking factor — test on mobile viewports
- Page speed directly affects rankings — optimize Core Web Vitals

Excerpt, first 3,870 characters of SKILL.md, verbatim from the audited commit. It is text from someone else’s repository, quoted so you can judge it before your agent reads it.

git clone https://github.com/spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills
git -C awesome-cursor-skills checkout 94fd3401595c

Works in

1. 2026-10-29
   ✓SAFE B 89 / 100

   first audit · source 94fd3401595c

Questions about seo-auditing

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