
Seo Programmatic
- 4k installs
- 12.5k repo stars
- Updated July 27, 2026
- agricidaniel/claude-seo
seo-programmatic is a skill for planning and auditing data-driven SEO pages at scale with template uniqueness gates and index bloat prevention.
About
SEO Programmatic plans and audits pages generated at scale from structured data while enforcing quality gates against thin content and index bloat. Data source assessment evaluates CSV, JSON, API, or database feeds for row counts, field uniqueness, duplicate records above 80 percent overlap, and freshness. Template planning defines injection points, static versus dynamic blocks, conditional logic, and anti mad-libs rules requiring standalone page value. URL patterns cover tools, city-service, integrations, and glossary slugs with lowercase hyphenated paths under 100 characters. Internal linking uses hub-spoke models, three to five related links, and BreadcrumbList schema. Thin content safeguards set WARNING at 100 plus unreviewed pages, HARD STOP at 500 plus without justification, flag under 40 percent unique content, and recommend 50 to 100 page batch rollouts. Canonical tags, 50000 URL sitemap splits, noindex for low-value pages, and monthly indexed-page audits manage crawl budget. Output delivers a programmatic SEO score, assessment table, and prioritized recommendations.
- Assesses data sources, templates, URLs, linking, thin content risk, and index management.
- HARD STOP at 500 plus pages without justification or under 30 percent unique content.
- Requires 30 to 40 percent genuinely unique content between programmatic pages.
- Recommends progressive rollout in 50 to 100 page batches with monitoring.
- Covers hub-spoke internal linking, canonical tags, and 50000 URL sitemap splits.
Seo Programmatic by the numbers
- 3,951 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- +408 installs in the week ending Jul 28, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
- Ranked #175 of 1,881 Marketing & SEO skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Security screen: MEDIUM risk (skills.sh audit)
- Data as of Jul 28, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
seo-programmatic capabilities & compatibility
- Capabilities
- data source quality assessment for programmatic · template uniqueness and anti mad libs content pl · url pattern and canonical strategy design · hub spoke internal linking and breadcrumblist au · thin content quality gates and progressive rollo
- Use cases
- seo · marketing · data analysis
What seo-programmatic says it does
Enforces quality gates to prevent thin content penalties and index bloat
Publish in batches of 50-100 pages. Monitor indexing and rankings for 2-4 weeks before expanding
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| Installs | 4k |
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| repo stars | ★ 12.5k |
| Security audit | 2 / 3 scanners passed |
| Last updated | July 27, 2026 |
| Repository | agricidaniel/claude-seo ↗ |
How do I generate thousands of SEO pages from a data source without triggering thin content penalties or index bloat?
Plan and audit programmatic SEO at scale with template uniqueness gates, URL patterns, internal linking, and index bloat prevention.
Who is it for?
Developers and SEO leads building directory, glossary, or integration pages from structured datasets with quality controls.
Skip if: Skip for single manual landing pages or mad-libs location pages with only city name swaps.
When should I use this skill?
User mentions programmatic SEO, pages at scale, template pages, dynamic pages, or data-driven SEO planning.
What you get
Programmatic SEO score, category assessment, prioritized fix list, and quality-gate compliance recommendations.
- Programmatic SEO score report
- Category assessment table
- Prioritized issue and recommendation list
By the numbers
- WARNING gate at 100 plus pages without content review
- HARD STOP at 500 plus pages without justification
- Sitemap split limit at 50000 URLs per file
Files
Programmatic SEO Analysis & Planning
Build and audit SEO pages generated at scale from structured data sources. Enforces quality gates to prevent thin content penalties and index bloat.
Data Source Assessment
Evaluate the data powering programmatic pages:
- CSV/JSON files: Row count, column uniqueness, missing values
- API endpoints: Response structure, data freshness, rate limits
- Database queries: Record count, field completeness, update frequency
- Data quality checks:
- Each record must have enough unique attributes to generate distinct content
- Flag duplicate or near-duplicate records (>80% field overlap)
- Verify data freshness; stale data produces stale pages
Template Engine Planning
Design templates that produce unique, valuable pages:
- Variable injection points: Title, H1, body sections, meta description, schema
- Content blocks: Static (shared across pages) vs dynamic (unique per page)
- Conditional logic: Show/hide sections based on data availability
- Supplementary content: Related items, contextual tips, user-generated content
- Template review checklist:
- Each page must read as a standalone, valuable resource
- No "mad-libs" patterns (just swapping city/product names in identical text)
- Dynamic sections must add genuine information, not just keyword variations
URL Pattern Strategy
Common Patterns
/tools/[tool-name]: Tool/product directory pages/[city]/[service]: Location + service pages/integrations/[platform]: Integration landing pages/glossary/[term]: Definition/reference pages/templates/[template-name]: Downloadable template pages
URL Rules
- Lowercase, hyphenated slugs derived from data
- Logical hierarchy reflecting site architecture
- No duplicate slugs; enforce uniqueness at generation time
- Keep URLs under 100 characters
- No query parameters for primary content URLs
- Consistent trailing slash usage (match existing site pattern)
Internal Linking Automation
- Hub/spoke model: Category hub pages linking to individual programmatic pages
- Related items: Auto-link to 3-5 related pages based on data attributes
- Breadcrumbs: Generate BreadcrumbList schema from URL hierarchy
- Cross-linking: Link between programmatic pages sharing attributes (same category, same city, same feature)
- Anchor text: Use descriptive, varied anchor text. Avoid exact-match keyword repetition
- Link density: 3-5 internal links per 1000 words (match seo-content guidelines)
Thin Content Safeguards
Quality Gates
| Metric | Threshold | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Pages without content review | 100+ | ⚠️ WARNING: require content audit before publishing |
| Pages without justification | 500+ | 🛑 HARD STOP: require explicit user approval and thin content audit |
| Unique content per page | <40% | ❌ Flag as thin content (likely penalty risk) |
| Word count per page | <300 | ⚠️ Flag for review (may lack sufficient value) |
Scaled Content Abuse: Enforcement Context (2025-2026)
Google's Scaled Content Abuse policy (introduced March 2024) saw major enforcement escalation in 2025:
- June 2025: Wave of manual actions targeting websites with AI-generated content at scale
- August 2025: SpamBrain spam update enhanced pattern detection for AI-generated link schemes and content farms
- Result: Google reported 45% reduction in low-quality, unoriginal content in search results post-March 2024 enforcement
Enhanced quality gates for programmatic pages:
- Content differentiation: ≥30-40% of content must be genuinely unique between any two programmatic pages (not just city/keyword string replacement)
- Human review: Minimum 5-10% sample review of generated pages before publishing
- Progressive rollout: Publish in batches of 50-100 pages. Monitor indexing and rankings for 2-4 weeks before expanding. Never publish 500+ programmatic pages simultaneously without explicit quality review.
- Standalone value test: Each page should pass: "Would this page be worth publishing even if no other similar pages existed?"
- Site reputation abuse: If publishing programmatic content under a high-authority domain (not your own), this may trigger site reputation abuse penalties. Google began enforcing this aggressively in November 2024.
Recommendation: The WARNING gate at<40% unique contentremains appropriate. Consider a HARD STOP at<30%unique content to prevent scaled content abuse risk.
Safe Programmatic Pages (OK at scale)
✅ Integration pages (with real setup docs, API details, screenshots) ✅ Template/tool pages (with downloadable content, usage instructions) ✅ Glossary pages (200+ word definitions with examples, related terms) ✅ Product pages (unique specs, reviews, comparison data) ✅ Data-driven pages (unique statistics, charts, analysis per record)
Penalty Risk (avoid at scale)
❌ Location pages with only city name swapped in identical text ❌ "Best [tool] for [industry]" without industry-specific value ❌ "[Competitor] alternative" without real comparison data ❌ AI-generated pages without human review and unique value-add ❌ Pages where >60% of content is shared template boilerplate
Uniqueness Calculation
Unique content % = (words unique to this page) / (total words on page) × 100
Measure against all other pages in the programmatic set. Shared headers, footers, and navigation are excluded from the calculation. Template boilerplate text IS included.
Canonical Strategy
- Every programmatic page must have a self-referencing canonical tag
- Parameter variations (sort, filter, pagination) canonical to the base URL
- Paginated series: canonical to page 1 or use rel=next/prev
- If programmatic pages overlap with manual pages, the manual page is canonical
- No canonical to a different domain unless intentional cross-domain setup
Sitemap Integration
- Auto-generate sitemap entries for all programmatic pages
- Split at 50,000 URLs per sitemap file (protocol limit)
- Use sitemap index if multiple sitemap files needed
<lastmod>reflects actual data update timestamp (not generation time)- Exclude noindexed programmatic pages from sitemap
- Register sitemap in robots.txt
- Update sitemap dynamically as new records are added to data source
Index Bloat Prevention
- Noindex low-value pages: Pages that don't meet quality gates
- Pagination: Noindex paginated results beyond page 1 (or use rel=next/prev)
- Faceted navigation: Noindex filtered views, canonical to base category
- Crawl budget: For sites with >10k programmatic pages, monitor crawl stats in Search Console
- Thin page consolidation: Merge records with insufficient data into aggregated pages
- Regular audits: Monthly review of indexed page count vs intended count
Output
Programmatic SEO Score: XX/100
Assessment Summary
| Category | Status | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Data Quality | ✅/⚠️/❌ | XX/100 |
| Template Uniqueness | ✅/⚠️/❌ | XX/100 |
| URL Structure | ✅/⚠️/❌ | XX/100 |
| Internal Linking | ✅/⚠️/❌ | XX/100 |
| Thin Content Risk | ✅/⚠️/❌ | XX/100 |
| Index Management | ✅/⚠️/❌ | XX/100 |
Critical Issues (fix immediately)
High Priority (fix within 1 week)
Medium Priority (fix within 1 month)
Low Priority (backlog)
Recommendations
- Data source improvements
- Template modifications
- URL pattern adjustments
- Quality gate compliance actions
Error Handling
| Scenario | Action |
|---|---|
| URL unreachable | Report connection error with status code. Suggest verifying URL accessibility and checking for authentication requirements. |
| No programmatic pages detected | Inform user that no template-generated or data-driven page patterns were found. Suggest checking if pages use client-side rendering or if the URL points to the correct section. |
| Thin content threshold exceeded | Trigger quality gate warning. Report the unique content percentage and flag pages below 40% uniqueness. Require user acknowledgment before proceeding. |
| Quality gate violation | Halt analysis at the HARD STOP threshold (500+ pages without justification or <30% unique content). Present findings and require explicit user approval to continue. |
MIT License - see repository root LICENSE file for complete terms.
Copyright (c) 2026 AgriciDaniel
https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo
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How it compares
Pick seo-programmatic over general SEO skills when you are architecting thousands of data-templated pages with explicit thin-content and index-bloat gates.
FAQ
What unique content threshold triggers a warning?
Below 40 percent unique content per page flags thin content risk; below 30 percent is a HARD STOP for scaled content abuse.
How should large programmatic launches roll out?
Publish in batches of 50 to 100 pages and monitor indexing and rankings for 2 to 4 weeks before expanding.
When does analysis halt entirely?
At HARD STOP when 500 plus pages lack justification or unique content falls below 30 percent without explicit user approval.
Is Seo Programmatic safe to install?
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