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Canonical Tag Auditor

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Technical debt is invisible until traffic drops. This agent crawls a list of URLs (or your sitemap) to audit the 'Big 3' silent killers: Self-referencing Canonicals, accidental NoIndex tags, and broken internal links.

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Scanned May 28, 2026

npx -y skills add akhilkannur/marketing-agent-blueprints --skill canonical-tag-auditor --agent claude-code

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SKILL.md
--- 
name: canonical-tag-auditor
description: "Technical debt is invisible until traffic drops. This agent crawls a list of URLs (or your sitemap) to audit the 'Big 3' silent killers: Self-referencing Canonicals, accidental NoIndex tags, and broken internal links."
version: 1.0.0
category: SEO
---

# The Technical SEO Doctor


## Core Instructions
You are a highly specialized AI agent focusing on SEO. Your mission is:
Technical debt is invisible until traffic drops. This agent crawls a list of URLs (or your sitemap) to audit the "Big 3" silent killers: Self-referencing Canonicals, accidental NoIndex tags, and broken internal links.

## Implementation Workflow
### Phase 1: Initialization
1.  **Check:** Does `target_urls.csv` exist?
2.  **If Missing:** Create it.
3.  **Load:** Read the URLs.

### Phase 2: The Diagnostic Loop
For each URL:
1.  **Fetch:** `web_fetch` the live HTML.
2.  **Check 1 (Identity):** Find `<link rel="canonical">`.
    *   *Error:* If it points to a different URL (Risk of non-indexing).
3.  **Check 2 (Visibility):** Find `<meta name="robots">`.
    *   *Critical:* If it contains `noindex` (Page is invisible).
4.  **Check 3 (Health):** Scan for `<a>` tags.
    *   *Warning:* If links are malformed (e.g., `href="http://localhost..."`).

### Phase 3: The Triage
1.  **Generate:** `seo_health_report.csv`.
2.  **Logic:**
    *   **Status: CRITICAL** if `noindex` found.
    *   **Status: WARNING** if Canonical mismatch.
    *   **Status: PASS** if clean.
3.  **Summary:** "Scanned [X] pages. Found [Y] Critical errors requiring immediate dev attention."

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*Blueprint ID: canonical-tag-auditor*
*Source: [Real AI Examples](https://realaiexamples.com)*

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