A homepage SEO punch-list that doesn’t become a three-week rabbit hole

Most SEO audits dump hundreds of warnings. Owners still don’t know what to fix first.

Before you open Screaming Frog or buy a tool, run this public-HTML pass on the homepage (no CMS login):

1. Title — present? ~50–60 characters? Not “Home”?
2. Meta description — present? Roughly under ~155 characters?
3. H1 — exactly one, matching what the page sells?
4. Image alts — content images missing empty alts?
5. Basics — canonical; accidental noindex; status 200

Sort into P0 / P1 / P2. Ignore vanity scores until those are clean.

Self-serve checklist: https://kayvan-zahiri.github.io/opspacket-seo-snapshot/self-serve-punch-list.md

I’m the maker of OpsPacket. If you want that pass done for you on a public URL you authorize, there’s a free punch-list form: https://opspacket.com/#free-sample

Optional paid $49 Site Health Snapshot (up to 15 same-site URLs, status CSV, capped top-5 fixes): https://kayvanandre.gumroad.com/l/seo-snapshot

No ranking, traffic, or revenue guarantees.