Audit workflow guide

How to turn repeated SEO findings into root-cause repairs.

A report with one row per occurrence is complete but hard to execute. A report that hides occurrences behind one summary is easy to scan but impossible to verify. A root-cause audit needs both layers.

Complete evidence✦Explicit boundaries✦Verifiable outcomes
01

Keep the counting units distinct

  • Occurrence: one captured match
  • Affected entity: the page, target, or asset with the condition
  • Source page: where a reference or markup literal was delivered
  • Root-cause group: the likely shared repair surface
02

Group without destroying evidence

Normalize URL identity before counting, but retain the original literal needed for diagnosis. Store every source-target pair, then group by stable context such as template path, schema node, attachment, or normalization rule.

03

Verify at the repair surface

After a shared template fix, re-check the source pages that carried the repeated occurrence. The number of repaired rows should be a measured outcome, not a multiplication assumption.

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