seo

Optimize for search engine visibility and ranking. Use when asked to "improve SEO", "optimize for search", "fix meta tags", "add structured data", "sitemap optimization", or "search engine optimization".

Quality

83%

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A thorough, highly actionable SEO reference with strong executable examples and a clear audit checklist. Its weaknesses are length/time-sensitive hedging that hurts conciseness and a monolithic structure with no bundle files to offload the extensive catalogs.

Suggestions

Move the full JSON-LD and sitemap XML catalogs into a references/ file (e.g. STRUCTURED-DATA.md) and keep SKILL.md as an overview with one-level-deep links, improving progressive disclosure and conciseness.

Relocate the dated AI-search adoption figures into a clearly marked 'emerging / time-sensitive' subsection so stale specifics do not penalize conciseness.

Trim redundant boilerplate comments inside code blocks where the surrounding guideline list already covers the same advice.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly lean and example-driven, but it runs long with full inline JSON-LD/sitemap catalogs and includes time-sensitive hedging ("As of 2026 ...", "As of mid-2026 adoption is ~0.015%") that could be tightened or moved to a dated section.	2 / 3
Actionability	It provides copy-paste-ready code for robots.txt, meta robots, canonicals, sitemap XML, title/meta tags, and five JSON-LD schemas, plus concrete guidelines lists and an audit checklist.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Though primarily a pattern catalog, the prioritized "SEO audit checklist" (Critical -> High -> Medium -> Ongoing) with validation links (Rich Results Test, Schema.org Validator, Search Console) supplies clear sequencing and verification; no destructive batch operation triggers the cap.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	There are no bundle files (references/scripts/assets) and all content lives in one ~528-line SKILL.md; the large structured-data/sitemap catalogs are inline rather than split into one-level-deep reference files, and the only cross-links point to sibling skills outside the bundle.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A concise, well-targeted description with explicit what-and-when structure and natural trigger phrases. Its only weakness is that the capability statement stays general rather than listing the specific concrete actions the skill performs.

Suggestions

Expand the capability clause to name concrete actions, e.g. "Configure robots.txt and sitemaps, set meta tags and canonical URLs, and add JSON-LD structured data."

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The phrase "Optimize for search engine visibility and ranking" names the domain and a general action but does not enumerate concrete actions (e.g. configure robots.txt, add JSON-LD, set canonicals), matching the 'names domain and some actions' anchor rather than the multi-action level 3.	2 / 3
Completeness	It explicitly states what ("Optimize for search engine visibility and ranking") and when ("Use when asked to ...") with concrete trigger phrases, satisfying both halves.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Triggers like "improve SEO", "fix meta tags", "add structured data", and "sitemap optimization" are natural phrases a user would say, giving good coverage of common variations.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The SEO niche is clear with distinct trigger terms unlikely to fire for sibling skills (e.g. core-web-vitals, web-quality-audit) that address different concerns.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (528 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning
relative_links	Relative link issues: 3 suspicious	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: addyosmani/web-quality-skills
Path: skills/seo/SKILL.md
Commit: 95d6e25

Reviewed: 9 days ago

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