AI-Powered SEO — Scan, Fix & Verify in Under 25 Minutes

Manual SEO audits are tedious. You crawl through pages, cross-reference meta tags, chase dead links, check heading hierarchies, validate structured data — and by the time you've cataloged every issue, you still haven't fixed anything. What if you could scan an entire site, fix every problem, and verify the results in under 25 minutes with a single prompt?

This article walks through a real session where an AI agent paired with SEOgent did exactly that.

1. The Setup

The target was Snooze Haus, a 32-page demo e-commerce site built with intentional SEO problems — missing meta descriptions, broken links, bad heading hierarchies, no sitemap, and more. The kind of mess you'd find on a real site that's grown organically without SEO discipline.

The tools:

Claude Code — Anthropic's AI coding agent running in the terminal
SEOgent CLI Skill — gives the agent built-in SEO scanning capabilities
Expose tunnel — makes the local dev site reachable by SEOgent's cloud scanner

The agent had full access to the site's source files and could read, edit, and create files as needed.

2. The Prompt

One prompt kicked off the entire workflow:

"Run a full seo scan and analysis of this website using the seogent skill. Be sure to run the performance and link checks also. Once you have the results back fix any issues and then run another scan to compare the results."

No manual intervention after that. The agent handled everything autonomously.

3. First Scan Results

The initial scan revealed significant issues across the board:

Metric	Result
Average SEO Score	72/100
Performance Score	46/100
Excellent (90+)	0 pages
Good (70–89)	29 pages
Needs Work (50–69)	42 issues
Poor (<50)	0 pages
Pages with dead links	71
Sitemap check	FAILED

Not a single page scored in the "excellent" range. Dead links were everywhere. No sitemap existed. The site had the bones of decent content, but the SEO fundamentals were broken.

4. What the Agent Fixed

After receiving the scan results, the agent read through every issue, examined the source files, and applied fixes across six categories — all without being told what to do next.

Site-Wide Template Fixes

Auto-generated canonical URLs on every page
Added Open Graph meta tags (title, description, image, URL) for social sharing
Injected JSON-LD structured data — Product, Article, Organization, and WebSite schemas where appropriate

Content Fixes

Wrote missing meta descriptions for pages that had none
Fixed broken and empty image src attributes
Added alt text to images missing it
Corrected heading hierarchy issues — multiple H1s on a page, skipped heading levels
Lengthened short titles that were too generic
Removed accidental noindex flags that were hiding pages from search engines

Dead Link Remediation

Fixed broken links across 15+ pages
Simplified 3–4 hop redirect chains down to direct links
Broke a redirect loop that was causing infinite redirects
Added 35+ redirects for URLs that had been removed without proper redirects

Infrastructure

Created a sitemap.xml with all 32 pages
Added lazy loading to below-the-fold images for performance

Footer Cleanup

Fixed heading hierarchy in the footer (changed h4 tags to styled p tags)
Removed dead links from the footer navigation
Updated stale URLs pointing to pages that no longer existed

5. Second Scan Results

After applying all fixes, the agent triggered a second full scan to verify the results:

Metric	Result
Average SEO Score	94/100
All 32 pages	Excellent (90+)
Dead links	0
Site checks passed	7/7
Duplicate titles	0
Duplicate descriptions	0

Every page scored excellent. Every site-level check passed. Zero dead links remained.

6. Before & After

Metric	Before	After	Change
Average SEO Score	72	94	+22 points (+31%)
Excellent (90+)	0	32	+32 pages
Good (70–89)	29	0	All upgraded
Needs Work (50–69)	42	0	All fixed
Pages with dead links	71	0	All resolved
Site checks	6/7	7/7	Sitemap created
Total time	—	~25 min	Single session

7. Key Takeaways

One prompt, zero manual intervention. The agent scanned, analyzed, fixed, and verified without any follow-up instructions.
22-point score improvement — from 72 to 94, a 31% increase across all 32 pages.
40+ files modified spanning templates, content pages, configuration, and redirect rules.
Under 25 minutes total, including both full scans and all file modifications.
Context-aware fixes, not templates. The agent read the source files, understood the site architecture, and applied fixes that made sense for each page — not generic boilerplate.

8. Try It Yourself

Set up your own AI-powered SEO workflow:

Agent Skill Guide — Install the SEOgent skill for Claude Code or any compatible AI agent
CLI Getting Started — Set up the SEOgent CLI and create your API token
Scan, Test & Fix Locally — Learn how to scan local dev sites with tunnels and iterate fast