First Crawl
A practical SEO starter

Your website is live.
Make it findable.

Learn three practical SEO checks: help crawlers reach your pages, check a useful sitemap, and inspect one page before you share it.

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Free guides. Open source. No account needed.

ONE-PAGE CHECKSYNTHETIC EXAMPLE

One page. A clear next step.

example.com/trail-guide/ · No live request made

!Two canonical tags disagreeISSUE
→Keep one preferred page URLFIXTURE FIX
—Search indexing & trafficNOT CHECKED
The useful output
A finding, its evidence, and a next action.

An offline correction shows one condition has changed. Verify your own deployed page separately.

Original teaching fixtures. Read the example and its limits

Start small. Keep the evidence.Browser or terminal · No paid SEO API required
The beginner path

Three checks.
A clearer next step.

Start with access, then discovery, then the page itself. Each guide shows what to inspect, what to record, and what remains unknown.

01Can a crawler reach your page?Check the response and rules that affect crawling. Learn why reachable and indexed mean different things.You'll keepA crawlability evidence log02Does your sitemap point to the right pages?Find and check your sitemap, submit it through official tools when you have access, and record the result.You'll keepA sitemap check and submission record03Is this page ready to share?Review its purpose, title, canonical URL, headings and links. Choose one useful change and verify it.You'll keepA one-page review
Optional helpers

Use the tools
you already have.

Follow along in your browser or terminal. A Skill packages repeatable instructions for a compatible assistant. Read its source before you run it.

SEO Skill: Local CLI

Default local route

Run bounded local crawl, sitemap-health and single-page reports without a paid SEO API.

Source reviewed CLI run · synthetic

Claude SEO: Sitemap

Optional · Claude Code

Discover a sitemap, validate its structure, and turn problems into an evidence-backed fix list.

Source reviewed Not run

Firecrawl Scrape

Advanced · hosted service

Capture one public page as a reusable Markdown or JSON evidence file.

Source reviewed Not run
Explore the curated SkillsThis site does not crawl your website or connect to your accounts.
Practice before production

Know what a result
can tell you.

Four complete before-and-after examples show common problems, the smallest correction, and the limits of the evidence.

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Synthetic teaching files

Keep these questions separate.

CrawlingCan a crawler fetch the page?
IndexingIs its information stored in an index?
RankingWhere does it appear for a query?

Sources accompany the guides. A crawl check cannot prove ranking.

Start with one page.

Choose a public URL you own or have permission to inspect.
Start your first check