Improve SEO and Page Structure with Index
Titles, descriptions, headings and speed — the parts of search you can actually control, fixed on the page.
Most SEO problems on a client site aren't strategic. They're a page with no description, four H2s and no H1, a title that says “Home”, and images two megabytes larger than they need to be. Index finds those, explains why each one matters, and fixes them.
Index Personality Snapshot
Index is SEO & Performance, and his temperament is closer to a librarian than a marketer. Where the rest of the team ask whether a page works, he asks whether it’s in order — sections that are labelled, headings that mean something, a structure a machine can follow. His own line when a check begins is Index here, sorting the chaos, and that’s a fair description of the job: most of what he finds isn’t broken, it’s just unlabelled.
He is the most reticent member of the team, and deliberately so. He only speaks when the check is actually about search, traffic or discoverability — he won’t add search notes to a design review because he happened to notice something. If you ran a check and heard nothing from him, that’s usually the rule working, not a fault.
He’s also the one who deals in numbers rather than impressions. Where the others describe what they see, he can measure it, and he’d rather report a real score than an opinion about speed. When he does change something he changes exactly the field in question — the description, one heading, a single alt attribute — and if putting one thing right would mean reordering the page around it, he says so and leaves the decision with you.
How it actually works
| Mode | What Index does | Does anything change? |
|---|---|---|
| Checking | Reads the page and reports what’s missing or weak. | No. A check writes nothing, ever. |
| Changing | Writes the metadata or fixes the element you’ve asked about. | Yes — scoped to that element, and gated by your approval. |
What you can check
| Target | When to use it |
|---|---|
| A single page | Before publishing, or when one page isn’t being found. |
| A whole site | The usual way to use him — missing titles and descriptions are a site-wide pattern, not a page-level surprise. |
What Index looks at
| What he checks | What that catches |
|---|---|
| Page titles and meta descriptions | Missing, duplicated, truncated, or written for nobody. |
| Heading structure | No H1, several H1s, levels skipped, headings used for styling rather than structure. |
| Keyword clarity | Whether the page’s actual topic is visible and supported, rather than implied. |
| Search intent | Whether the page answers what someone searching for it actually wants. |
| Internal linking | Pages that sit isolated, and obvious links that were never made. |
| Structure for crawling | Content organised so it can be read by a machine as well as a person. |
| Image alt text | Missing alt attributes where they’re visible on the page. |
| Being cited by AI search | Sometimes called GEO, or generative engine optimisation: whether the page is structured so an AI answer engine can quote it — clear claims, real structure, and answers close to the questions people ask. |
| Speed | Measured, not guessed — see below. |
The metadata pass
Index has a check of his own alongside the visual one. Where a page’s metadata is captured with it, that’s reviewed as a separate pass — the fields that never appear on screen but decide how the page shows up in search and when it’s shared.
He measures rather than estimates
A check doesn’t judge speed by eye. Real measurement runs at the overview level, alongside the read of the page, and feeds what Index reports.
| Measurement | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Page speed report | A real performance score for the page, from a proper test rather than an impression — including how quickly it loads and settles for a visitor. |
| Keyword trends | Whether a term is rising or falling, so you’re aiming at where demand is going. |
| Accessibility report | Also runs at overview level, though acting on it is Navi’s job rather than his. |
Research before he changes anything
Index doesn’t guess at demand. Ask him about a term, a competitor or a market and he looks it up against live search data, then uses what comes back to decide what the page should say. The order is always the same: research, then a recommendation you can see the reasoning behind, then the change.
| What he can look up | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Search volume, how hard a term is to rank for, an overview of it, related ideas, and what someone searching it actually wants. |
| Trends | Whether terms are rising, stable or falling against each other over the past year. |
| Live results | What is actually ranking for a term right now. |
| Competitors | Who else ranks for your terms, what else they rank for, and the gap between their keywords and yours. |
| Domains | An overview of a domain, and the keywords it already ranks for. |
| Backlinks | A backlink profile, and the referring domains behind it. |
| Pages | An on-page audit — titles, headings, canonical and markup — and the content a given URL actually contains. Crawling and indexing sit outside it; those need the site’s Search Console. |
| Local | Business listings for a place, so local work is checked against real listings rather than assumptions. |
It’s the same set of lookups wherever you ask — in workspace chat, inside a task, or on the page itself.
How to ask for it
Index takes plain requests. These are the ones that do the most work:
| What you want | Ask for it like this |
|---|---|
| A starting position | “Baseline our search position for example.com in the UK — what we rank for, roughly what that traffic is worth, and how many referring domains we have.” |
| The fastest wins | “Which terms is example.com already ranking between 4th and 20th for in the UK?” |
| Who you’re really up against | “Who actually competes with example.com in UK search, and which of their keywords do we not rank for?” |
| Whether a term is worth chasing | “For these terms — [list] — give me the volume, the difficulty, and how many referring domains sit behind the pages already ranking. Then tell me which we could realistically win.” |
| A content plan | “Group these keywords by intent and map each group to a single page on example.com.” |
| What a page needs | “Audit https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fservices — titles, headings, canonical, markup, and what the page actually says.” |
| Ideas straight from the results | “Show me the live UK results for ‘garden rooms’, including the People Also Ask questions.” |
| Local consistency | “Check our business listings against what the site says, for our Bristol address.” |
instawp.site address, a -staging subdomain, anything that isn’t the business’s own name. A copy has no search history, no links and no rankings of its own, so a baseline taken from one describes the copy rather than the client. Index names the domain he measured, and asks you which to use when he cannot tell. An on-page audit is the exception: the markup is the same either way.
GB or United Kingdom, US or United States. Shorthand isn’t recognised, so UK and USA come back asking for the market again rather than running. Without a market named at all, some of these lookups can’t run either.
Working with your SEO plugin
Metadata is written through whichever SEO plugin the site already uses, rather than adding another layer.
| Plugin | What he can set |
|---|---|
| Yoast SEO | SEO title, meta description, focus keyphrase, canonical and indexing settings. |
| Rank Math | SEO title, meta description, focus keyphrase, index and noindex settings. |
| All in One SEO | SEO title, meta description, focus keyphrase, canonical and indexing settings. |
Site-wide settings, one at a time
The table above is per page. Index can also change a plugin’s site-wide settings — the templates and defaults that apply across the whole site rather than to a single URL.
| Plugin | What he can set site-wide |
|---|---|
| Yoast SEO | The homepage title and description, the separator character, and whether the site presents itself as a company or a person. Title and meta templates for individual post types and taxonomies can be written too, though those he cannot read back to confirm. |
| Rank Math | The same defaults. Its redirections and module switches are the exception — nothing reaches them directly, so they take the slower route described below, and Rank Math’s Redirections module stays off until someone turns it on. |
| All in One SEO | Site title and description, the separator, and the site-wide defaults behind them. |
- One named change per request. He won’t bundle several together.
- Only on something you typed. He won’t make a site-wide change during an automated run. On a scheduled workflow he reads the current values, reports them, and tells you to make the edit in the plugin’s own settings.
- Approval first. He says what the change will do, then waits for you.
- Read back afterwards. He re-reads the value from the plugin to confirm it saved, rather than assuming the write worked.
Show me and Do it
Ask Index about an element on the page and, where he proposes a change, you get Show me and Do it beneath his answer. Show me applies it to the page in front of you; you can toggle it off and back on to compare, regenerate it if it isn’t what you meant, and take a screenshot straight into the thread as a comment. Do it applies it for real, queuing and running in the background, and an Undo control then appears on that comment.
Speed, images and caching
Performance sits in his remit, but it works differently from metadata. Metadata he writes directly. Speed work runs through the plugins that own it — a caching plugin, an image optimiser, a database cleaner — and what he can do depends on where each setting lives.
| Area | What actually happens |
|---|---|
| Image weight | He’ll identify oversized images and can set up an optimiser, including its stored settings. Running the bulk compression, entering the account key and choosing how WebP or AVIF get delivered stay with you in the plugin’s own screens. |
| Caching | He’ll tell you what’s active and what’s missing, and can install a caching plugin. Its cache settings live in the plugin’s own storage rather than in ordinary site settings, so configuring and clearing the cache is guided rather than done for you. |
| Database | He can install a maintenance plugin and configure the cleanup and its schedule. The cleanup itself is something the plugin performs on that schedule — it isn’t a button he can press. |
| Redirects | Where your SEO plugin manages redirects, he can create them directly. Where a standalone redirect plugin owns them, the rules live in its own tables and he’ll guide you through adding them instead. |
Running a check
Index joins a review when search is named as the goal. A review reads what is on the page — the keyword and competitor research is a separate ask, in chat or on a task.
Instructions:
What comes with each finding
| Captured | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Screenshot | Shows the page as it was when the finding was made. |
| Element location | Identifies the exact heading, image or field. |
| Screen size and browser | Explains problems that only appear on certain setups. |
| Status, priority and tags | Lets the finding move through your process like any other task. |
| The thread | Replies and decisions stay attached to the finding itself. |
The check closes with a summary, and a report you can send straight to your client — useful on a care plan, where SEO maintenance is otherwise invisible work.
Where Index works
| Where | What he does | How it starts |
|---|---|---|
| Page checks | Reads a page or site and reports what’s missing. Changes nothing. | Choose a preset, or pick him with Custom. |
| On the page | Answers about a specific heading or image and applies the fix there and then. | Click the element and ask. |
| In a task | Works inside a single task — fixing, and commenting the result. | Claro routes the work to him, or you ask in the task. |
| Workspace chat | Picks up SEO and speed work across all your projects and sites. | Ask Claro; it routes search and performance work to Index. |
| On a schedule | Recurring SEO work — a monthly metadata sweep, a post-update check — without anyone starting it. | Set up a workflow. It creates the task and puts Index on it when it runs. |
Working with a reply
Every AI answer carries a few controls beneath it. Alongside Show me and Do it you can copy the response, and mark it a good or bad response with the thumbs — that rating goes back to us and is how the specialists get better at the work you actually do.
The composer underneath has its own set of choices. Comment posts normally. Send to Claro hands your message to Claro instead, for when the thing you want isn’t this specialist’s job. Add a note posts internally — only Admins and Team Members can see it. And Set internal task hides the whole task from guests and clients, with Unset internal task to put it back.
White-label behaviour
What Index doesn’t do
| He doesn’t | Who does |
|---|---|
| Judge how it looks | Layout, spacing and styling are Pixel‘s. |
| Rewrite persuasive copy | Messaging, tone and calls to action are Lexi‘s. He writes metadata, not sales copy. |
| Find technical faults | Broken links, missing images and faulty forms are Glitch‘s. |
| Audit accessibility | Contrast, keyboard use and screen readers are Navi‘s. |
| Go out and earn links | He’ll show you a competitor’s backlink profile and the domains linking to them. Outreach, and actually getting a link, stays with you. |
How Index treats your site
Frequently asked questions
Does he cover being found by AI search?
Yes, as part of on-page fundamentals. Clear claims, real heading structure and answers placed close to the questions they address are what let an answer engine quote a page — and they help traditional search too.
Does Index do SEO strategy?
He does the research a strategy is built on, but not the strategy itself. He’ll pull search volume, keyword difficulty, competitor rankings and backlink profiles, and he covers what’s on the page — titles, descriptions, headings, structure, internal links, alt text and speed. Deciding what to publish, and going out to earn links, stays with you.
Why didn’t he say anything in my review?
He only contributes when the check is about search, traffic or discoverability, so he doesn’t add SEO notes to a design review. Ask for a search check, or select him directly.
Does he need an SEO plugin installed?
Not to review a page. To write metadata directly he works through whichever plugin the site already uses — Yoast, Rank Math or All in One SEO.
Does he actually measure speed, or estimate it?
A real page speed report runs as part of the check, rather than speed being judged by impression.
Can he make my site faster?
He can measure it, tell you exactly what’s making it slow, and set up the plugins that fix it — an image optimiser, a caching plugin, a database cleaner — including their settings. Running the bulk jobs those plugins perform stays in their own screens. Hosting and theme quality sit outside his reach entirely.
Who handles alt text, him or Navi?
Both care about it. He treats it as search and structure; Navi treats it as accessibility. Fixing it once satisfies both.
Will he restructure my headings?
He’ll fix a single heading. If proper logic would mean reordering whole sections, he raises it as a recommendation and leaves the decision with you.
Can I check a whole site rather than one page?
Yes, and it’s usually the better way to use him. Missing titles and descriptions are almost always a site-wide pattern.
Will my rankings improve?
Fixing what’s on the page removes the obvious obstacles. Where you rank also depends on competition, links and content depth, none of which are on-page issues.
How do I turn a finding into actual work?
Use Show me to preview the change on the page, then Do it to apply it. It queues and runs in the background, and an Undo control appears on that comment afterwards if you change your mind.
Which findings should I fix first?
Work in priority order: high (red) affects conversions and clarity, medium (orange) covers usability and hierarchy, and lower is cosmetic.
Will my client know they’re talking to Atarim?
Not in a white-labelled workspace. Index appears under your agency’s naming, and nothing a client reads is attributed to an AI.
Common issues
- No SEO findings came back — he stays out of checks that aren't about search. Say discoverability is what you're checking, or pick him yourself with Custom.
- Nothing came back about metadata — the metadata pass needs Index in the check and the page's metadata captured with it.
- Metadata changes won't save — check the site has an SEO plugin he can write through, and that it's on WordPress 6.9 or later with the plugin connected.
- He recommended a heading change instead of making it — fixing it would have meant restructuring other sections. That's raised rather than done, so you decide.
- Rankings haven't moved — he fixes what's on the page. Rankings also depend on competition, links and content depth, which sit outside what he covers.
- The speed score didn't improve much — check image weight first. It's usually the largest single factor, and caching won't compensate for an oversized hero.
- A page stopped ranking after a URL change — a redirect was probably missed. Set one up from the old address to the new one.
- Alt text is flagged twice — Index and Navi both care about it, for different reasons. Fixing it once satisfies both.
Conclusion
Index handles the part of SEO that's unglamorous, repetitive, and genuinely worth doing: the missing description, the page with no H1, the image nobody compressed. He measures rather than guesses, writes through the SEO plugin you already have, and fixes one thing at a time.
He's most useful across a whole site rather than a single page — that's where the gaps show up as a pattern, and where a before-and-after report turns invisible maintenance into something a client can see they paid for. Explore How to Run an AI-Powered Page Review.
Tips & best practices
- Check the whole site rather than page by page — metadata gaps come in bulk.
- Structure pages so an answer engine can quote them; it serves normal search too.
- Say search is what you're checking, or he stays out of it.
- Take a speed measurement before the work, so the after has something to sit against.
- Start with image weight; it's usually the biggest single win.
- Handle redirects as part of any URL change, never afterwards.
- Send the report to care-plan clients — SEO maintenance is otherwise invisible.
- Let him and Navi overlap on alt text; fixing it once covers both.
- Pair him with Lexi when the metadata needs to persuade as well as describe.
- Re-run after a round of fixes to confirm what actually landed.
- Don't expect ranking changes from on-page work alone.