Crawling, Indexing & Canonicals: Checklist and quality gates
A checklist protects quality when the work scales beyond one person. Part of the Crawling, Indexing & Canonicals module in a complete path from SEO fundamentals to professional delivery.
Why this lesson — Checklist and quality gates
A checklist protects quality when the work scales beyond one person. Inside the "Crawling, Indexing & Canonicals" module: Diagnose robots, sitemap, canonical, and duplicate-content issues that keep the right pages out of the index.
- Level: Intermediate
- Lesson 6 of 25 inside this module
- Start from the problem before choosing a tactic
How to do it, step by step
Run these steps in order on a real project, and do not jump ahead before the previous step is done.
- Turn every recurring mistake into a check
- Split checks into blocking and advisory
- Review the checklist monthly and delete dead items
Quality bar before you call this done
If one of these is missing, the work is not ready to ship or to hand over.
- Under 20 items
- Each item is pass or fail, not an opinion
- Someone signs the gate
Practical assignment
Map crawl paths for a sample site and identify pages that need guidance or exclusion. Apply it specifically through this lesson's lens: Checklist and quality gates.
- Keep the output to one page
- State what you will measure and when
- Define the next step and its owner
Turn the idea into a clear output.
Map crawl paths for a sample site and identify pages that need guidance or exclusion.
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