Crawling, Indexing & Canonicals: Capstone execution
Ship the plan in waves, verify each wave, and keep a visible log of what changed and what moved. Part of the Crawling, Indexing & Canonicals module in a complete path from SEO fundamentals to professional delivery.
Why this lesson — Capstone execution
Ship the plan in waves, verify each wave, and keep a visible log of what changed and what moved. 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 24 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.
- Wave 1: blockers and measurement
- Wave 2: highest-impact pages
- Wave 3: scale and internal linking
- Verify after each wave before starting the next
Quality bar before you call this done
If one of these is missing, the work is not ready to ship or to hand over.
- Each wave has a date and an owner
- Nothing ships without verification
- The log is shared with the client
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: Capstone execution.
- 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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