Crawler Access Technical Checklist
Use this checklist to confirm that important pages are reachable, visible, and structurally understandable to crawlers and assistant retrieval systems.
Scope
Crawl access is necessary but insufficient. Technical availability only matters when it supports pages with strong narrative clarity.
This placeholder focuses on structural basics and leaves detailed recommendations for the final content pass.
Technical checks
- [ ]Ensure key docs and product pages return a stable 200 response.
- [ ]Expose routes through normal HTML links, not only scripted interactions.
- [ ]Keep robots and sitemap aligned with public documentation paths.
- [ ]Use meaningful headings and canonical URLs for article pages.
- [ ]Avoid thin dead-end pages that cannot be traversed further.
Common failure mode
Pages can be crawlable yet still low-confidence if they have weak headings, shallow copy, or no supporting internal links.
Minimum surface
| Surface | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Robots | Controls whether crawlers can reach key paths |
| Sitemap | Provides a stable path inventory |
| HTML links | Allows traversal without script execution |
| Canonical tags | Reduces ambiguity across similar URLs |