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REAL "20 things to tell Claude to add to your website before launching" — a genuinely good pre-launch checklist
The claim20 things to tell Claude to add to your website before launching: custom 404, CTA above the fold, internal links, thank-you page, breadcrumbs, case studies, five FAQs, response-time promise, sticky mobile CTA, robots.txt, unique page titles, meta descriptions, social share image, maps + directions, real reviews, alt text, local schema, privacy policy, Google Analytics, and a real photo of your team.
This one just holds up. All twenty items are legitimate, boring, professional web-launch hygiene — the difference between a site that ranks and converts and one that doesn't. Local schema, alt text, unique titles and meta descriptions, a privacy policy, real reviews, a genuine team photo: this is the checklist a competent web shop runs before going live, and 'tell Claude to add each one' is a real, effective way to get it done. No dollar claim, no product, no funnel — just a fast, correct list. We'll happily co-sign it; we run most of these on every site we build.
What holds up
- All 20 items are standard, legitimate pre-launch best practices — nothing filler, nothing wrong
- Local schema, meta descriptions, alt text, and unique page titles are real SEO fundamentals that measurably help
- Claude genuinely can add every one of these — the workflow claim is true
- No income claim, no product, no comment-gate — rare and clean
What doesn't
- 'In 27 seconds' is the format's pace, not your build time — each item still needs doing and checking
- A checklist tells you WHAT, not whether it's done right — verify each addition actually works (test the 404, confirm analytics fires)
The catch
Essentially none. The only trap is assuming that asking for a thing means you got it — AI will happily tell you it added local schema that has a typo in it. Check the work; the list itself is gold.
How to actually do it
- Paste the 20 items to Claude as a checklist and have it implement them one at a time on your site
- Then VERIFY each: visit a broken URL to see the 404, check the page source for the schema, confirm Google Analytics shows a live hit
- The highest-ROI five for a local business: local schema, real reviews, maps + directions, a real team photo, and one clear CTA above the fold
- Add a real privacy policy with actual content — not a placeholder — especially if you collect any form data
- Don't launch until every item is checked off AND spot-verified — the list is the standard; verification is the discipline
Use it as an actual pre-launch gate — here's how to run it so the items are real, not just requested.
- Effort
- An afternoon to implement and verify all 20 on a small site
- Cost
- $0 beyond your existing Claude plan and hosting
- Stack
- Claude + your site + 20 minutes of clicking to verify the work
- Confidence
- High
- Posted by
- a vibe-coding creator running a checklist series, no product
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