The five families
Every cycle runs the whole store through the same grid: eighteen dimensions across five families, each instructed separately with its own data sources. A dimension is never sacrificed to hit a deadline — if it fails, it is replayed next cycle, not struck from the scope.
- Technical, 7 dimensions — crawlability and indexability, XML sitemaps and their real submission status, performance quantified (LCP, INP, CLS, TBT, FCP, TTFB) against 2026 thresholds, structured data, above-the-fold mobile rendering, drift against the previous cycle, and indexing crossed with field performance.
- Onsite, 5 dimensions — content quality and E-E-A-T, page/intent fit, e-commerce SEO judged on product pages and never on the homepage, local signals, social and OG images.
- Offsite, 3 dimensions — inbound link profile (volume, referring domains, concentration), Maps presence and NAP consistency, SERP and keyword metrics.
- Content, 2 dimensions — hub-and-spoke topical cluster architecture built on queries you already rank for, and FLOW framing (Find, Leverage, Optimize, Win) to place the store and decide the next move.
- Answer engines, 1 dimension — visibility in generative answers: accessibility to search assistant crawlers, presence of an llms.txt, passage-level citability.