You shipped a beautiful web application. Clean code, smooth UX, fast on your machine. Then you check Google Search Console and realize your pages are barely indexed, your structured data is throwing errors, and half your canonical tags are pointing to the wrong URLs. Sound familiar?

Technical SEO is the unsexy foundation that either unlocks or blocks all the content work you do on top of it. This audit checklist is built for developers — not marketers — so we'll go deep on the implementation details, not just the theory.

1. Crawlability and Indexation

Before anything else, you need to verify that Googlebot can actually find and read your pages.

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