Verify All Pages Written in First Person

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Confirms every page of a personal-brand site speaks as the owner ("I" and "my"), not about them in third person, so the site reads as the person and not a brochure.

Category: Website QA Audit

Use this when starting Layer 2 (Content Architecture Checks) of the Website QA Audit on a personal-brand site.

Inputs

  • Site URL plus a full page list (XML sitemap or crawl export)
  • The owner's name (to search for third-person constructions)
  • The audit report/spreadsheet for logging results

Steps

  1. Read the homepage hero and first section aloud – it must say "I help…" / "my clients…", not "[Name] helps…" or agency-style "we" on a solo personal brand.
  2. Use the browser find function (Ctrl/Cmd+F) on every page to search for the owner's name followed by "is", "has", or "helps" – the telltale third-person patterns.
  3. Run a site:domain.com "Name is" Google search to surface third-person copy on pages you might have skipped.
  4. Check the about page especially – it is the most common third-person offender (bio copy pasted from a speaker kit).
  5. List every page and the specific sentences that break first-person voice, so the rewrite is a punch list rather than a vague note.
  6. Log pass/fail per page in the audit report.

Definition of done (QA checklist)

  • 100% of audited pages use first-person voice – zero third-person references to the owner outside testimonials and press quotes
  • Every violation documented with page URL and exact sentence
  • Results logged in the audit report, linked back to /website-qa-audit

Example(s)

  • Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first real run.

File in the zip: skills/website-qa-audit/verify-all-pages-written-in-first-person.md. Download the Task Library zip.

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