Current methodology · content interpretation
SEO methodology
SEO assesses readable meaning, audience, search intent, relevance, and agreement across visible and machine-readable representations. It interprets acquired content rather than testing technical access or delivery.
What this category checks
- Search intent, page purpose, audience, and task satisfaction.
- Semantic agreement across title, description, H1, introduction, body, social representation, and structured data.
- Topical coverage, terminology consistency, useful internal links, and meaningful media.
Presence, syntax, rendering, canonical mechanics, and crawl controls are technical checks owned by Page Experience or AI Discoverability.
Active immutable version
The current SEO rubric is seo-rubric-v1.
Stable and versioned URLs
Bookmark this page for the current methodology. Cite the immutable version URL when explaining a saved result. A future methodology may change this stable pointer, but it cannot rewrite the version used by an existing scan.
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