I built a pickaxe to do a website audit for seo. Overall it does a really good job in terms of context. But where it fails is it doesn’t actually provide the audit. For example it says “For an on-page SEO audit of xxxx.com, here are some key elements we’ll analyze and some recommendations on how to improve them:” Then it provides acceptable elements like meta tags, headings, title tags, etc.
It didn’t actually provide any analysis. When I said, “you said you would analyze and provide recommendations but I don’t see it” it replied:
I apologize for any confusion. Let’s conduct a hypothetical on-page SEO analysis of xxxxxx.com. While I can’t access the website directly to pull data, I’ll illustrate the types of insights and recommendations you can typically derive from such an audit:
And therein is the issue. In the pickaxe I did give it the ability to access the web if requested. I chose gpt 4o and am using my own key.
Is what I am asking not possible or do I need to make some changes to my prompt?
When the end-user gives it a link to a website, the Pickaxe will not actually visit the page, but send a web-scraper to visit the page and attempt to scrape its contents. This is then dumped into the conversation. It’s hard to say what exactly get from the webscraper as a lot of this depends on the website. Likely many elements will be lost.
If you enable vision within your Pickaxe, it can actually ‘look’ at a screenshot of the page. Here is a video tutorial where we actually go over building a chatbot that looks at website and roasts them. You may find it instructive.
Thanks for the info. Seems like a flaw then. I can have chatgpt look at a website and provide me all kind of details about the website. But I’ll reexamine this. BTW, your video tutorial link when I click it nothing happens.
Actually, I solved my own problem. First I figured out that if I include the entire url with https and the right prompt it will read the webpage.I rewrote the prompt with more specific details about what to do and what to say and it did a pretty decent job with specifics drawn from the actual website.
Glad it’s working. Here’s the link to the video tutorial on Pickaxes with image recognition enabled
