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Astro SEO Checklist
A practical DomainLens guide to Astro SEO Checklist, focused on static rendering, content collections, metadata, image optimization.
Run a fresh DomainLens audit and use the report as your priority list.
Overview
Astro SEO Checklist is useful when you need a clear way to separate cosmetic SEO work from issues that can block crawling, indexing, rankings, or search snippets. Start with evidence, then decide what deserves engineering time.
Use an automated audit to collect the baseline, then review the page manually for context, search intent, and business priority.
Why it matters
The most common problems usually sit around static rendering, content collections, metadata, image optimization. These signals influence how easily search engines discover pages, understand content, and trust the final URL they should rank.
A good SEO workflow turns these checks into a short fix list with owner, impact, effort, and validation steps.
What to check
- Review static rendering and record the current state, expected state, and exact URL affected.
- Review content collections and record the current state, expected state, and exact URL affected.
- Review metadata and record the current state, expected state, and exact URL affected.
- Review image optimization and record the current state, expected state, and exact URL affected.
Common mistakes
- Fixing static rendering without validating the rendered page, canonical target, and indexability after deployment.
- Fixing content collections without validating the rendered page, canonical target, and indexability after deployment.
- Fixing metadata without validating the rendered page, canonical target, and indexability after deployment.
- Fixing image optimization without validating the rendered page, canonical target, and indexability after deployment.
Next step
Run a fresh DomainLens audit, compare the report with this guide, and prioritize fixes that affect indexability, snippets, internal linking, or Core Web Vitals first.