Area 2 of 10 in the UltimateSEO Framework v4.3

Technical eligibility

Whether people, search engines and AI systems can reach, render and index the right address. It covers responses, crawl and index controls, canonicals, sitemaps, rendering, links, mobile parity, performance, HTTPS, language versions, CDN and WAF access, AI and Bing crawlers, faceted URLs, pagination, overload and migrations. 10 of the 20 are hard gates: a confirmed FAIL on any of them stops publication until it is fixed. The scan checks 14 automatically, gives a partial signal for 2 and needs your evidence for 4.

Controls: 20
Hard gates: 10
Automated checks: 14

Every Technical eligibility control, with priority, hard gates and how it is checked

Automated the scan can produce pass or fail evidence on its own. Partly automated the crawl gives a signal, a person decides. Needs your evidence Search Console, logs, business facts or reviews are required; the state stays UNKNOWN until you supply them.

ID	Control	Priority	Checked by
T-01	Serve accessible, meaningful public URLs Hard gate	P0	Automated
T-02	Separate crawl, indexing, preview and private-access controls Hard gate	P0	Automated
T-03	Align canonical signals without collapsing distinct resources Hard gate	P0	Automated
T-04	Synchronise sitemaps and valid change notifications	P1	Automated
T-05	Verify rendering on each target surface Hard gate	P0	Automated
T-06	Use crawlable navigation links	P1	Automated
T-07	Preserve mobile content and function parity Hard gate	P0	Automated
T-08	Manage real-user performance without destroying utility	P1	Automated
T-09	Use secure, consistent public delivery Hard gate	P0	Automated
T-10	Keep language and regional versions coherent	P1	Automated
T-11	Verify crawler access through CDN and WAF Hard gate	P0	Partly automated
T-12	Manage Google generative Search eligibility explicitly Hard gate	P0	Partly automated
T-13	Separate OpenAI search, training, user and advertising access Hard gate	P0	Automated
T-14	Separate Anthropic crawler purposes	P1	Automated
T-15	Distinguish PerplexityBot from Perplexity-User	P1	Automated
T-16	Connect Bing discovery and observable AI reporting	P1	Automated
T-17	Control faceted-navigation URL spaces	P1	Needs your evidence
T-18	Make pagination and incremental loading discoverable	P1	Needs your evidence
T-19	Handle overload, response errors and crawl resilience deliberately	P1	Needs your evidence
T-20	Protect migrations and destructive URL changes Hard gate	P0	Needs your evidence

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