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The SEO checklist, and an agent that works through it

71 checks for launching a site that ranks, each with a test and a pass condition. Plus seo-autopilot, the AI agent I wrote to run that work on your site every day.

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SEO launch checklist

71 checks

Let search engines crawl and index you

  • Remove stray noindex tags

    Check
    Run curl -s on each page template and search for "noindex". Check the X-Robots-Tag response header too.
    Pass
    Only pages you deliberately hide carry noindex. The staging tag is gone.

  • Put the main content in the server HTML

    Check
    Run curl -s on a page and search for a sentence from its body.
    Pass
    Headings, body text and links are in the raw HTML, not only after JavaScript runs.

seo-autopilot

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$ npx skills add Illyism/seo-skills --skill seo-autopilot

  • seo/keyword-map.csv
  • seo/backlog.md
  • 3 fixes shipped on the first run

What’s in the checklist

Every item says how to check it, usually with a free tool or one curl command, and what passing looks like. It covers AI answers too, not just Google. Tick items off as you go, or paste the whole list into your agent.

  1. 1Pick the searches you want to win6
  2. 2Let search engines crawl and index you9
  3. 3Get the basics right on every page8
  4. 4Make pages fast on real devices6
  5. 5Add structured data5
  6. 6Write pages that deserve to rank8
  7. 7Link your own pages together5
  8. 8Show up in AI answers6
  9. 9Launch day6
  10. 10Earn links and mentions7
  11. 11Run it every week5

What the agent does

seo-autopilot is an agent skill. It runs inside your site’s repo, keeps its memory in a seo/ folder, and ships real changes to the site, as pull requests until you trust it. It won’t send emails or create accounts for you.

First run
Reads your repo and product, builds a keyword map, crawls the site and ships the three most valuable fixes.
Daily
Checks every URL on the live site, corrects pages when prices or features change, and ships one item from the backlog.
Weekly
Pushes page-two queries toward page one, checks indexing, asks AI assistants about your category and writes a short report.
Monthly
Rebuilds the keyword map and writes articles, comparison pages and one free tool. Drafts link outreach for you to send.
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Why I made it

I build LinkDR, GenPPT and AI SEO Tracker, and I run an SEO agency, MagicSpace. The same problems come up on every site: a stray noindex, pages Google can’t render, titles nobody clicks, new pages nothing links to.

This is the list I work from, written so you can test each item yourself. I wrote the agent so the list gets run every day, not once at launch.

Neither can earn you links. When you need them, that’s what LinkDR does.

What you’ll get

Now
The checklist link, the ten checks to start with, and the install command for the agent.
Tomorrow
What the first agent run should leave behind, and how to put it on a daily schedule.
After that
My newsletter: what I learn building LinkDR, GenPPT and AI SEO Tracker. Unsubscribe from any email in one click.

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