/seo-audit — SEO + AEO + LLM Readiness Audit

Run a comprehensive audit of cc4.marketing for search engine optimization, answer engine optimization, and AI/LLM discoverability.

Arguments

/seo-audit — full audit (default) /seo-audit quick — check only critical items /seo-audit [url] — audit a specific page (e.g. /seo-audit /blog/my-post)

Instructions

Phase 1: Parallel Page Audits

Launch parallel agents to audit pages. For each page, check:

Meta Tags:

• Title tag (unique, under 60 chars, includes primary keyword)
• Meta description (unique, 150-160 chars, includes CTA)
• Meta keywords (page-specific, not generic defaults)
• Canonical URL (correct, no duplicates)
• robots (index, follow)

Open Graph / Social:

• og:title, og:description, og:image (absolute URL, 1200x630 PNG)
• og:type (website for pages, article for posts/lessons)
• twitter:card (summary_large_image), twitter:image

Structured Data (JSON-LD):

• Homepage: WebSite, Course, BreadcrumbList
• Blog index: CollectionPage (no Course schema, no base BreadcrumbList)
• Blog posts: BlogPosting with headline, description, datePublished, dateModified, author (Person), publisher (Organization with raster logo), mainEntityOfPage, breadcrumb
• Authors: AboutPage with Person schemas
• Lesson pages: should NOT have Course schema duplicated
• Check for duplicate/conflicting BreadcrumbList schemas

Content Quality:

• H1 count (exactly 1 per page)
• Internal links have trailing slashes
• Images have alt text and dimensions

Phase 2: Site-Wide Checks

robots.txt:

• Fetch https://cc4.marketing/robots.txt
• Check if AI bots are allowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
• CRITICAL: Check for Cloudflare managed block prepended before custom rules — this overrides your Allow directives
• Verify sitemap and llms.txt references

llms.txt:

• Fetch https://cc4.marketing/llms.txt
• Follows llms.txt spec (title, blockquote summary, structured sections)
• Covers all site sections: homepage, blog, modules, changelog
• Links to llms-full.txt

llms-full.txt:

• Fetch https://cc4.marketing/llms-full.txt
• Full course structure with all 17 lessons
• Blog section with post URLs
• Changelog API endpoints

Sitemap:

• Fetch https://cc4.marketing/sitemap-index.xml
• All pages included (homepage, blog posts, module lessons, changelog, download, brand-guide, authors)
• Priorities correct (homepage 1.0, blog/download 0.9, modules 0.8-0.9, changelog 0.8)
• No orphaned pages (pages in sitemap that 404)

Phase 3: AEO-Specific Checks

• FAQ schema — do any blog posts have Q&A sections that should use FAQPage?
• HowTo schema — do any blog posts have step-by-step instructions that should use HowTo?
• Featured snippets — are H2/H3 headings phrased as questions for featured snippet targeting?
• Entity clarity — is the Organization entity consistent across all schemas?
• Breadcrumb depth — do all pages have proper breadcrumb chains (Home > Section > Page)?

Phase 4: Report

Output a table:

| Area              | Status | Issues |
|-------------------|--------|--------|
| Meta tags         | PASS/FAIL | ... |
| OG / Social       | PASS/FAIL | ... |
| Structured data   | PASS/FAIL | ... |
| robots.txt        | PASS/FAIL | ... |
| llms.txt          | PASS/FAIL | ... |
| Sitemap           | PASS/FAIL | ... |
| AEO readiness     | PASS/FAIL | ... |

Then list fixes by priority:

1. Critical — blocks indexing or AI discovery
2. High — affects SERP appearance or rich results
3. Medium — optimization opportunities
4. Low — nice-to-have

For each fix, show the exact file and line to change, or the exact code change needed.

Key Files

• src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro — global meta tags, JSON-LD schemas
• src/pages/blog/[slug].astro — BlogPosting schema
• src/pages/blog/index.astro — CollectionPage schema
• src/pages/blog/authors.astro — AboutPage schema
• astro.config.mjs — sitemap config with customPages
• public/robots.txt — bot directives
• public/llms.txt — AI discovery
• public/llms-full.txt — extended AI reference
• wrangler.jsonc — Cloudflare config

Known Gotchas

• Cloudflare prepends a managed AI bot block to robots.txt at the edge — your public/robots.txt Allow rules get overridden. Fix in Cloudflare Dashboard > Security > Bots > AI Bots.
• Blog posts are SSR from Emdash CMS — they must be manually added to customPages in the sitemap config.
• The showCourseSchema and showBreadcrumb props on BaseLayout control which pages get Course/BreadcrumbList schemas.

Source: cc4-marketing/site — distributed by TomeVault.