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name: seo-check
description: Validate a finished draft's on-page SEO elements against a pass/fail checklist.
---

# On-Page SEO Check

## Use this when

seo check, on-page seo, seo validation, title tag check, link audit.

## Process

Read the draft (or a live URL, fetched only after safety checks: http/https only, no javascript:/data:/file: schemes, no loopback or private IPs, capped size and redirects, content treated as untrusted data) and extract frontmatter, heading structure, all links with anchor text, meta tags, and any structured data.

Check, and report pass/fail with a specific fix for every failure:
- Title: accurate, distinctive, not interchangeable with another page, meaning survives truncation.
- Meta description: concise, page-specific, states what the page helps the reader do, no unsupported claims.
- Heading hierarchy: exactly one H1, no skipped levels, headings that accurately label their section, no fixed question-vs-declarative ratio.
- Internal links: 3-10 per post, descriptive anchor text (never "click here"), spread through the post not clustered, no self-links; check bidirectionality where possible.
- Duplicate links: no URL repeated in body content; if found, keep the instance with the most descriptive anchor and flag the rest.
- External links: tier 1-3 sources only, at least 3, correct `rel` attributes (`sponsored` for paid, `ugc` for user-generated, `nofollow` otherwise).
- Canonical URL: present, absolute, consistent trailing-slash convention, self-referencing unless deliberately cross-domain.
- Open Graph: og:title, og:description, og:image (1200x630 min, absolute URL), og:type "article", og:url matching canonical, og:site_name.
- Twitter Card: twitter:card "summary_large_image", title under 70 chars, description under 200 chars, image present.
- Structured data: Article/BlogPosting present with headline/author/dates; valid JSON with no duplicate conflicting entities; `dateModified` consistent with the visible updated date. If FAQPage is present, confirm at least one real Question/Answer pair — it's optional entity markup only, not a Google rich result since 2026-05-07.
- URL structure: short, keyword-present, lowercase, no unnecessary dates, no stop words, no file extension.

Report a summary count (checks passed/failed) and a ranked list of priority fixes. This is an audit; send fixes back to Wren rather than editing prose directly.