Step 1 Inventory Content and Establish Gct Per Page

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Audit every URL on the site into one inventory and write Goals, Content, Targeting for each major page – the foundation document the entire 6-step internal linking process runs on.

Category: SEO & Content Architecture

Use this when starting the 6-step internal linking process (/internal-linking) from the top, or whenever the content inventory has gone stale.

Inputs

  • Export of every published URL: posts, pages, landing pages
  • Crawl or LinkWhisper data for internal links in/out per URL
  • The GCT framework: Goals, Content, Targeting

Steps

  1. Export every published URL into one working sheet with columns: URL, title, category, tags, publish date.
  2. Add link data per URL: internal links in, internal links out (from the crawl or LinkWhisper report).
  3. For every major page, write its GCT – Goal: what the page must accomplish (rank, convert, prove); Content: what it actually covers; Targeting: who it serves.
  4. Mark each page's SEO Tree role: root, trunk, branch (definitive article), or leaf (case study / meta-article).
  5. Flag pages with no defensible GCT – they are candidates for the orphan-elimination and thin-page-removal skills, not for new links.
  6. Save the inventory as the single working document for Steps 2-6 of the internal linking process.

Definition of done (QA checklist)

  • Every published URL present in one inventory – nothing missing from the sitemap or crawl
  • GCT written for every major page; no blanks on money pages
  • SEO Tree role marked for every URL; links in/out counts populated
  • No-GCT pages flagged and routed for consolidation
  • Linked back to the definitive article (/internal-linking) and ready to hand to Step 2

Example(s)

  • The /internal-linking definitive article – the hub that "includes skill file for AI agents" – documents this step as it was run on blitzmetrics.com.
  • Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt (/meta-article-prompt-template) after the next full inventory.

File in the zip: skills/seo-content-architecture/step-1-inventory-content-and-establish-gct-per-page.md. Download the Task Library zip.

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