SKILL.md · Claude Code, Cursor, Codex
programmatic-seo-gate
description
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. Not for hub/spoke IA (site-ia-map) or for generating the pages themselves.
- What it does
- Decides yes or no on pages at scale, sets a page cap, and requires a proprietary data column, a named reviewer, and a release cadence before any bulk generation.
- Where it stops
- Not for hub/spoke IA (site-ia-map) or for generating the pages themselves.
One-time payment. The zip has all 11 skill folders with their references.
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- name: programmatic-seo-gate
- description: 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. Not for hub/spoke IA (site-ia-map) or for generating the pages themselves.
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- # Programmatic SEO 2026 gate
- Decide whether a programmatic SEO factory is allowed, which of the 12 common patterns can run, and the quality / indexation gates. Then stop. Do **not** ship 10k pages.
- **Attribution.** The 12-pattern menu (Templates, Curation, Conversions, Comparisons, Examples, Locations, Personas, Integrations, Glossary, Translations, Directory, Profiles) and the principles in §1 follow Corey Haines' `programmatic-seo` skill in [marketingskills](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills) (MIT License, © 2025 Corey Haines; see `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md` at the pack root). That catalog is the **menu**; this skill is the 2026 **gate** on top of it. If the facts here are more than 14 days old, run the `search-change-triage` skill first.
- Google's scaled-content-abuse policy and the May 2026 AI optimization guide make unreviewed template farms **more** dangerous, not less. Query fan-out rewards a cluster with unique facts, not 10k near-duplicates.
- No autopublish. Show the URL list and one sample page; a human ships.
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.
- 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.
- how-to-site-factory
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).
- 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.