AI SEO Audit Checklist: Find Gaps Before Buying Another Tool
Audit crawl, index, citation, referral and conversion evidence in order, then prioritize fixes by confidence, business importance and reversibility.
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Audit crawl, index, citation, referral and conversion evidence in order, then prioritize fixes by confidence, business importance and reversibility.
A practical ChatGPT SEO workflow that separates crawler discovery, answer citations, referral clicks and qualified outcomes instead of hiding them in one score.
Cloudflare AI Search has a shared 10 KiB metadata envelope per vector, but only the first 64 UTF-8 bytes of each string remain filterable. Test bytes, not characters.
Audit Claude Managed Agents domain controls and the new auto permission policy as separate access, per-call, execution and evidence decisions.
OpenAI says context hints guide ad matching but are not exact-match keywords and do not guarantee delivery. Diagnose eligibility, relevance, auction, and outcomes with a controlled ledger.
Cloudflare Browser Rendering now compares /crawl contentUse with a publisher’s Content Signals ceiling. Use this controlled matrix to test reference and full without overstating what the signal proves.
Five search and AI changes from August 24–30, covering signed-in browsing, AI Overview expansion, local bookings, source labels and reporting errors.
ChatGPT Work can help on some signed-in websites after the user enters credentials. Publishers should distinguish crawler, public fetch, signed-in session, and webhook traffic.
Google now applies one HTML-unescape pass while extracting JSON-LD. Audit templates for double-escaped values and fix the serializer rather than individual pages.
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