SKILL.md · Claude Code, Cursor, Codex
how-to-site-factory
description
Use when building or rebuilding a vertical how-to / niche publisher site with a coding agent (repo, stack defaults, SEO defaults, image, accuracy and byline rules). Not the programmatic-SEO allow/refuse gate (programmatic-seo-gate).
- What it does
- Guardrails for having your coding agent build a niche how-to site: Git as source of truth, noindex previews, no placeholder images, accuracy review, honest bylines.
- Where it stops
- Not the programmatic-SEO allow/refuse gate (programmatic-seo-gate).
One-time payment. The zip has all 11 skill folders with their references.
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- name: how-to-site-factory
- description: Use when building or rebuilding a vertical how-to / niche publisher site with a coding agent (repo, stack defaults, SEO defaults, image, accuracy and byline rules). Not the programmatic-SEO allow/refuse gate (programmatic-seo-gate).
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- # Vertical how-to site factory
- Build or rebuild one **vertical how-to content site** (informational publisher / content factory).
- **Agnostic:** this skill names no niche or domain. Repo org, hosting, registrar, and brand come from the brief.
- ## Hard rules
- 1. **Git is the source of truth.** One private repo per site on the agreed Git host. Do not make a second host the only source of truth. Create the empty repo first if it is missing, then hand the coding agent that repo URL.
The other 10 skills in the pack
- technical-seo-2026-delta
Use when a site needs only the 2025–2026 Google/Bing technical changes checked (generative eligibility, snippet controls, dead rich results, crawler split, new Search Console reports and measurement caveats, EEA site-reputation split, regional SERP units, emergency crawl-rate controls).
- aeo-answer-surface-playbook
Use when the goal is to own the answer unit on a named results/answer surface (featured snippet, PAA, AI Overview, Copilot, Perplexity), especially when the site already ranks and still loses the box.
- geo-citation-playbook
Use when a brand needs to be retrieved and cited inside generative answers (ChatGPT Search, Copilot, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode) — per-engine eligibility, citation measurement, third-party corroboration.
- programmatic-seo-gate
Use when someone wants template, location, integration, comparison, directory, or other pages at scale (programmatic SEO) and needs a 2026 allow/refuse decision with a page cap.
- site-ia-map
Use for a hub/spoke, cannibalization, one-URL-per-intent, internal-links, or site information-architecture job (live remap or greenfield).
- search-change-triage
Use every Monday, or when traffic / rankings / AI Overviews / AI citations moved, to classify the external search change and then choose wait, watch, or act.
- gsc-growth-review
Use when the ask is a Google Search Console period review and a qualitative SEO growth judgment for a named property.
- seo-agent-design
Use when someone asks you to build an SEO / AEO / GEO agent or content bot and you need its safety contract (tools, approve path, refuse list) before any code.
- linkedin-post-system
Use when designing a repeatable LinkedIn publishing system (topics, formats, cadence, review) that stays inside LinkedIn's 2026 rules, e.g. for building in public.
- skill-review
Use when auditing, tightening, or deciding whether to keep one agent SKILL.md.