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The audit-before-amplification principle: a link campaign multiplies the site’s visibility, and multiplying a site that wastes its crawl, duplicates its pages or loses its migrations is buying traffic for a leaky funnel. The checklist, per target page: in the index (URL Inspection, not assumption), self-canonicalising, not caught in a redirect chain, rendering its content in raw HTML the crawler sees, and loading to a usable standard on a mid-range phone.
Site-wide: an XML sitemap that agrees with reality, robots.txt that doesn’t block what matters, stable URLs (no silent changes under a running campaign — every link in the tracker points at a URL that must keep existing), and migration hygiene ready — because campaigns that run through a site migration without a redirect map strand their own placements. The AI-era additions: the page’s content extractable (not gated behind JavaScript-only rendering the AI crawlers may skip), and the entity layer present (Organization, Person, sameAs) so the authority the links bring attaches to a coherent brand record.
The sequencing rule that saves budgets: fix before, not during — links pointed at pages that then change URLs, canonicals or content intent waste the placement and confuse the report; a campaign can launch with a short list of verified-ready pages and expand as engineering clears the rest, but never the reverse. The cheapest technical audit in the discipline: for each target page, one crawl, one index check, one performance read — fifteen minutes that protect every placement that follows.
See also: On-page SEO essentials that make links work, Target URL readiness, Core Web Vitals and link value.
Related service: Link building strategy.
