Certification Module Technical SEO

Lesson 2: Technical Foundations and Crawlability

The learner can ensure a site is reliably crawled, indexed and readable by both search and AI engines.

ID
SS-CE-002
Confidence
Emerging · 55
Evidence
Emerging
Updated
2026-07-08

Overview

The learner can ensure a site is reliably crawled, indexed and readable by both search and AI engines.

Foundation level

Learning objectives

  • Diagnose the indexability and crawl issues that suppress visibility
  • Configure access for search and AI crawlers deliberately rather than by default
  • Prioritise technical fixes by the traffic and citations at risk

Lesson outline

  • Crawl, render and index: the pipeline every page passes through
  • Robots directives, llms.txt and AI crawler access
  • Core Web Vitals and rendering for machine readability
  • Reading a technical health scan and triaging findings
  • Building a durable technical baseline before optimising content

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    Apply the method Crawlability Framework Framework See the wider capability Crawl Optimisation Capability