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How should an agency decide which SEO work to do first for a new client?

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A new client may need technical fixes, content, local SEO, links, tracking, and conversion work. What prioritization model keeps the first 90 days focused?
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Prioritize by dependency, risk, business impact, and effort. Fix blockers before building assets on top of them.

1. Establish measurement and business goals so success can be observed.

2. Fix critical crawl/index/redirect/canonical issues that can prevent pages from performing at all.

3. Clarify entity, service, location, and conversion architecture so new content has a place to live.

4. Improve high-value existing pages before automatically creating new ones.

5. Build missing service/location/content assets based on keyword and customer evidence.

6. Add authority, reputation, and distribution work after the site can properly receive and convert demand.

The right first task is rarely “publish more.” It is the highest-impact bottleneck that unlocks the next stage of the system.
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