Skill · SEO
Technical SEO
Making a site crawlable, fast and indexable so its pages can rank.
Technical SEO covers site architecture, crawlability, indexability, page speed and structured data so search engines can find and understand a site's pages.
What you will be assessed on
A reviewer marks against these criteria. L1 is a free knowledge check; L2 and L3 use credits and a reviewer.
L1
Knows what a crawl is, what robots.txt and sitemaps do, and can name the core ranking factors.
L2
Has audited a live site, fixed crawl or indexation issues, and measured the effect in Search Console or an equivalent tool.
L3
Designs site architecture for a complex domain, resolves indexation at scale, and sets the technical SEO strategy for an organisation.
Choose an assessment
Check your knowledge
Answer questions about this skill and see your result when you finish.
Free
Demonstrate your practical skills
Submit previous work or complete a Caterpi task. Then talk through your work and decisions with a reviewer.
1 credit · L2 work review
Demonstrate advanced judgement
Discuss unfamiliar scenarios with an expert reviewer and explain how you would handle constraints, uncertainty and trade-offs.
2 credits · L3 expert review
Available after an eligible L2 result in this skill.
What you need
A crawl audit report, a before/after Search Console export, or a structured data implementation with measured impact.
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Standards detail
Standard version: v1.0
Content version: 1.0.0
Next review: 2027-10-18
Reference: CAP-SEO-001