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Grade Your Store's SEO

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Answer 8 quick questions and get your SEO readiness score with specific recommendations.

1How many content pages does your store have (besides product pages)?
2Do your content pages target specific keywords?
3Do your pages link to each other with internal links?
4Do you have interactive tools (calculators, quizzes, finders)?
5Do you publish new content regularly?
6Do your product pages have unique descriptions (not manufacturer copy)?
7Does your site have structured data (schema markup)?
8How does your store currently get traffic?

Your SEO Readiness Report

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Ollie fixes every gap on this list

In-depth guides, interactive tools, internal linking, schema markup. All live on your store in week one.

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What this tool does

The store SEO grader asks eight questions about your store and returns an SEO readiness score out of 100, with a breakdown by area and one recommendation for each. The areas are content volume, publishing rhythm, keyword targeting, internal linking, product descriptions, interactive content, traffic mix and structured data.

Each area has a fixed weight, with content volume weighted highest and technical basics lowest.

Why it is worth using

A single score is a prompt to look in the right place. Two stores can have the same score for different reasons, so the breakdown is the useful part: it shows whether the weakness is volume, rhythm or on-page work.

How to use it

  1. Answer from the live store. Open the site and count, rather than guess.
  2. Choose the closest answer. If you are unsure, pick "not sure", since the score treats unknown as a gap worth checking.
  3. Read the score and breakdown. Note which area lost the most points.
  4. Do the recommendation for the weakest area. One focused fix beats a scatter of small ones.
  5. Re-grade in a few weeks. The point is to see which area moved.

Who it is for

What it cannot tell you

Eight questions cannot measure rankings or content quality. The weights are our judgment of what matters most, not a measurement of Google. A store can score well and rank poorly in a hard niche. Use it to find your weakest area, and then use real data to confirm.

Common questions

What does the SEO readiness score mean?

It is a weighted total from eight answers about your store, out of 100. Higher means more of the basics are in place.

How are the areas weighted?

Content volume carries the most weight, then publishing rhythm, keyword targeting, internal linking, product descriptions, interactive content, traffic mix and technical SEO.

Does a low score mean my store cannot rank?

No. It means more of the basics are missing. Rankings also depend on competition and links.

What should I fix first?

Start with the area that lost the most points, as long as it is something you can finish in a week.

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About the author

is the founder of RunOctopus. He built All Angles Creatures, a reptile-feeder store in a hard, entrenched niche, using exactly this method. It became the most-cited site in the AI answers we measured, with 5,447 Google clicks in 28 days. It is RunOctopus's proof store for programmatic SEO and AI search citation.