NORTHLINE COFFEE / WORKED AUDIT
Editorial example based on 01-Synthetic-Evidence-EN.txt.

Executive summary
A priority product intended for search has a noindex directive in the fixture. The sitemap also contains an outdated 404 URL that still receives an internal link. Scope is five selected URLs on one host. Search visibility and traffic impact are unmeasured.

Coverage
Status and redirects / Observed / Five URLs in E1. No redirects recorded in this fixture.
Robots, canonical and sitemap / Observed / E1 through E3. Google-selected canonicals require access.
Internal links / Observed / Two source pages and three links in E4.
Google indexing, performance, search and backlinks / Needs access / Request relevant owner data or exports.

Backlog
P0 / SEO-001 / Priority product is marked noindex
Evidence: E1 product row shows 200 with noindex,follow and self canonical. E2 shows the product path is not excluded by the supplied rule. E3 lists the product. The business brief designates this URL as intended to be indexable.
Scope and confidence: one verified priority URL. The template-wide extent is unknown.
Fix: have the template owner locate and remove the unintended directive for the intended product. Check related product templates before changing shared settings.
Retest: priority URL remains 200, is crawlable under the tested rules, and has no unintended noindex in HTML or HTTP headers. If Search Console is provided, compare the live test and the later indexed snapshot separately.

P1 / SEO-002 / Category and sitemap still reference an outdated 404
Evidence: E1 old-blend row is 404, E3 lists the URL, and E4 shows the category link.
Scope and confidence: one target, one observed internal source and one sitemap entry.
Fix: update the category link to a relevant live alternative or remove it, then remove the obsolete URL from the sitemap. Consider a redirect only if a genuinely equivalent destination exists.
Retest: no link to /products/old-blend on the sampled category and no obsolete URL in the regenerated sitemap.

Verification queue
SEO-V01 / The query variant declares the priority product as canonical. This is a verified declaration from E1. Whether Google chose that canonical is unknown. Request indexed URL Inspection for both URLs after the unintended noindex is addressed.
SEO-V02 / Review a broader set of product templates before claiming a widespread directive problem. No traffic or ranking change can be quantified from the fixture.
