Crawl Foundry
Technical SEO audit workflow: from crawl to verified fixes
Use this technical SEO audit workflow to turn crawl findings into a prioritized correction list. Set the crawl scope, inspect affected URLs and verify fixes after publication. Keep confirmed problems and their evidence together for the client handover.
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Define the question and crawl scope
Record the domain, target environment, crawl limits and relevant paths. Decide whether you are checking a migration, a release or recurring site health. Review the action price and allowance before starting.
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Read findings with their affected URLs
Use Site Audit to inspect issues and the pages or links behind them. Review response status, indexability, canonical signals and internal links. A crawl finding is a lead until you check the actual page.
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Prioritize a reproducible problem
Choose a problem that affects important pages. Save an example URL, the observed behavior and the expected result. Give the responsible team a bounded correction to make.
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Verify after the change
Repeat the relevant check with comparable settings after the correction is published. Compare the affected URLs and keep the before and after evidence. A successful crawl is not proof of a search ranking improvement.
A technical SEO audit checklist for the handover
Crawl access and response codes
Check whether important pages are reachable and which internal links lead to redirects or errors. Record the source link and target URL so the team can reproduce the finding.
Indexability and canonical signals
Compare the intended indexable page with its robots directives, canonical target and sitemap inclusion. Check the live page before treating a crawler warning as a confirmed conflict.
Internal link audit and verification
Check whether important pages can be reached through relevant internal links. Keep an affected URL, the correction owner and a comparable follow-up check for each confirmed problem.
What to keep in the handover
Keep the crawl date and scope, affected URLs, finding evidence, the correction owner and the verification result together. Use separate workspaces for separate clients.
Technical SEO audit questions
What is the difference between a crawl and a technical SEO audit?
A website SEO crawler collects pages and technical signals. The audit reviews those findings, confirms relevant problems and prioritizes corrections. Verification checks whether the published correction resolves the original finding.
Do I need a full Site Audit or a public free tool?
Use a focused free tool for the specific question it answers. Use Site Audit in the application when you need a crawl across the relevant site pages, affected URLs and a correction workflow in the client's workspace.
When should I repeat the audit?
Repeat the relevant checks after a correction, release or migration, with a comparable scope. Keep the evidence date and changed URLs. Monitor search performance separately because a clean crawl alone does not establish a ranking gain.