Run SEO with an agent, but guard against it gutting pages
- Level Intermediate
- Setup1–3 hrs (estimated)
- Evidence Some evidence
- CostNot stated in source
- No-codeNo
What they did
A site owner used Claude as his SEO team for writing, updating and auditing articles. He reports 31.4K clicks and 4.5M impressions. One day, a reported 'update' replaced his three best articles with short stubs.
How it went
He recovered the originals from the Wayback Machine and merged them with the new sections. His lessons: allow only additive changes, check the live page instead of trusting the agent's report, and compare word counts before and after every edit.
Worth knowing
- Self-reported numbers on Reddit.
- Keep backups or version control for every published page.
Prompt
Cleaned version rewritten from the source — not a direct quote.
Before editing any published article, save the current version and its word count. Make additive changes only. After deploying, fetch the live URL and confirm the word count didn't drop by more than [10]%. Report a before/after diff.
Recommended
Try it in Grok Bot
- Copy the prompt (button below).
- Open Grok Bot chat and paste it. Replace any [bracketed] placeholders.
- Connect the listed tools (as needed) as connectors when Grok Bot asks.
- If the task repeats, ask: "Make this a daily routine."
Alternatives: the same prompt works in Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT Agent, OpenClaw.
Set it up
Stack: Claude Code
- Read the original source for full context.
- Connect the tools your agent needs.
- Paste the prompt and replace [bracketed] placeholders.
- Run once manually and check the output before scheduling it.
Generic suggested steps, not from the source.
Evidence
Self-reported numbers on Reddit. Keep backups or version control for every published page
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