Ralph SEO Audit Notes

First Detailed Pass

Tier-1 pages return 200 and have populated title, meta description, canonical, and H1.
Pricing, reports, methodology, about, and flagship commodity hubs expose strong trust and positioning language.
Internal doc exposure is blocked.
Flagship trust/practical sections are live.

Homepage title duplication feel
- Current title: CommodityNode — Commodity Price Impact Maps | CommodityNode
- Feels brand-redundant and slightly generic.
- Candidate direction: sharper non-redundant title focused on commodity intelligence / impact maps.
Missing explicit robots meta on Tier-1 pages
- Not necessarily broken, but useful to track so noindex regressions are easier to spot.
- Could standardize explicit index, follow on key templates/pages if desired.
AI-search discoverability surface on homepage
- llms.txt exists on site but homepage does not visibly route users/bots toward machine-readable surfaces.
- Could add stronger internal link to methodology / pricing.txt / reports in a machine-readable or research transparency block.
SEO audit layer should include repo + live metadata checks
- Current audit is strong on trust blocks, but should also score title/meta/canonical quality and detect weak/duplicative patterns.

Add metadata_quality checks to full audit.
Add homepage title refinement as a bounded manual improvement batch.
Add AI SEO checks for llms.txt presence, key research links, and citation-friendly blocks.