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name: diagnostics description: Use for structured technical SEO audits, incident response, and validation.

Technical Diagnostics Toolkit Skill

When to Use

• Investigating crawl/index anomalies, traffic drops, or Core Web Vitals regressions.
• Running scheduled audits ahead of major launches or migrations.
• Validating fixes before/after engineering deployments.

Framework

1. Signal Triangulation – combine Search Console, log files, crawler output, and analytics deltas.
2. Replication Scripts – document steps to reproduce issues (user agents, locales, device types).
3. Root Cause Hypotheses – map symptoms to likely causes (render blocking, redirects, robots, schema errors).
4. Fix Design – outline remediation options, risk level, dependencies, and testing approach.
5. Validation & Monitoring – specify metrics and alerts to confirm resolution.

Templates

• Diagnostics worksheet (symptom, evidence, hypothesis, owner, next action).
• Crawl + render checklist per environment.
• Validation log capturing metrics pre/post change.

Tips

• Keep historical baselines to quickly detect regressions.
• Pair with engineering release notes to correlate incidents.
• Automate recurring crawls and lighthouse runs to catch issues early.

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