<b>The pre-publish index-coverage gate</b>

<b>The pre-publish index-coverage gate</b>

Most pSEO teams ship first, then watch Search Console fill with "Crawled - currently not indexed." Reverse the order. Gate every template at the page level before scale.

Run this on 50 sample URLs:
☐ Step 1 — Render check. Fetch with a headless crawler, confirm primary content exists in raw HTML, not just after JS. Gate: fail if main entity data is client-side only.
☐ Step 2 — Uniqueness diff. Shingle the body (5-word windows) across the 50 pages. Gate: fail if median cross-page overlap exceeds 40%.
☐ Step 3 — Internal demand. Each page must have at least 3 incoming internal links from non-template pages. Gate: fail any orphan.
☐ Step 4 — Query coverage. Pull the head term per page from your keyword map. Gate: fail if 0 search demand in your data source.
☐ Step 5 — Canonical self-reference. Gate: fail if canonical points elsewhere.

Only templates that pass all five at sample scale earn the right to generate 10,000 pages.

Ship gate: don't publish until all boxes are checked.