A technical SEO audit workflow you can actually finish

Step 1 — Crawlability

Check robots.txt, sitemap, and canonical tags.

Step 2 — Indexability

Sample 20 URLs with site:example.com on Google.

Step 3 — Performance

Run Lighthouse on a mobile emulation.

Step 4 — Content structure

Verify H1s, meta descriptions, structured data.

Step 5 — Backlinks

Pull top referring domains and note anchor patterns.