A practical baseline for checking a static Cloudflare Pages deployment before deeper SEO experiments begin.
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Short answer
A Cloudflare Pages baseline starts with the same crawl and metadata checks as any static site, then adds deployment-specific checks for public routes, canonical consistency, headers, redirects, and whether the committed public/ output matches what the generator is supposed to build.
Evidence label
Starter Guide This is a restrained starter entry built for clarity, verification, and later expansion.
Why it matters
Static hosting removes some sources of rendering noise, but it does not remove deployment mistakes. A clean static stack is only useful if the public paths, metadata, and indexable pages match the intended output.
How to verify
Confirm the generated public/ output includes the intended HTML, sitemap, feed, and robots.txt.
Confirm public routes resolve as expected after deployment.
Confirm canonical URLs point to the intended production paths.
Confirm legacy URLs either redirect or publish a moved notice cleanly.
Confirm section indexes do not leak draft content.
Sources and notes
Cloudflare Pages documentation is relevant for the platform model.
Google Search Central documentation remains relevant for sitemap and crawl-facing behavior.
This page is about baseline verification, not ranking claims.