SEO is not one task, it's a sequence, and skipping the order is the most common way it fails to work:
- Fix the technical basics — one web address per page, no duplicate pages, a sitemap that matches what's live.
- Find out what buyers actually search — before writing anything.
- Build pages around that real demand.
- Link your own pages to each other.
- Earn a handful of genuine backlinks.
- Track real outcomes, not just rankings.
Most of this can now be handed to an AI coding assistant working directly on your site's files — the same idea as the app-building prompts, applied to SEO tasks. The three guides below give you the actual prompts and a practical checklist, in order.