Define the handoff before opening a tool
This audit is useful when an existing page, document, feed, or URL list will be reused, migrated, or published. Save an authorized snapshot and state the destination, expected fields, domains, query policy, feed endpoints, and robots variants. The result should be a traceable decision record, not a promise about page quality or search visibility.
Extract an inventory before checking it
Start with HTML attributes, image sources, and metadata so href, src, lazy-loading references, Open Graph fields, and structured data are not missed. Branch for the material you actually have: export tables to CSV, strip tags for a readable text view, or extract Markdown links. Keep raw and derived outputs together with their source location.
Validate structure and URL behavior
Once the inventory exists, run static Markdown checks, deduplicate HTTP and HTTPS URLs, and group domains. Parse path, fragment, and query values next. Classify tracking, filtering, pagination, and content-selection parameters, then record whether each one is preserved, mapped, or excluded in the proposed handoff. A static finding is not the same as a live request result.
Check the final exposure channels
Review the supplied RSS or Atom feed after the URL analysis so item dates, order, duplicates, and summary content can be compared with the intended output. Lint robots.txt last and test the important URLs against the stated rules. Attach the findings, scope, and untested areas to an accept, revise, defer, or block decision; do not turn this evidence into a universal SEO or ranking claim.