A Google Sheets SEO task tracker built from your AI answer gaps

Screpy's guide to Google Sheets SEO templates says these sheets are useful when each row leads to a clear decision, and that a spreadsheet cannot make decisions because its headers look complete. For team use it suggests adding owner, status, evidence_ref and observed_on columns, and keeping proposed changes separate from implemented ones.

It also says a proposed action should have an owner and an acceptance condition, such as a corrected public link or verified live metadata, and that no row should be marked complete on a planned date alone. Those are the columns Claude adds on top of Linkeddit's action records.

Technical checklists get reused because the same misses repeat. An SEO consultant on Reddit listed this item: "No noindex tags left on important pages (common after migrations)" A tracker in Sheets can hold items like that alongside the Answer Radar cards, with one status column for both.

The SEO task templates ranking for this query, from TechRepublic, Screpy, QuickSEO and Keyword.com, supply the structure and leave you to invent the tasks. Answer Radar supplies tasks from measurement. A gap is a buying question where an engine recommended someone else or nobody, and an action is the work that gap implies.

On the test project, one gap produced two actions: a competitor_won card where Umami holds the answer, with 3 competitor mentions and 12 competitor citations across the samples, and a content_gap card where the brand was absent in 3 samples. Both carry rank 1 and the same gap_id, so they belong on one line of work, not two.

Only 2 action types, content_gap and competitor_won, are generated today, and Linkeddit says so in its own response. Only content_gap and competitor_won cards are generated today; five other types exist in the schema without an evidence source yet, so a short queue does not mean there is nothing else to do. Cards are ordered by creation date, not by rank, so ask Claude to sort by rank.

A dismissed card keeps suppressing its finding permanently, while a completed one releases it so the finding can return later as a new card with new evidence. Do not match cards across weeks by id. Match them by gap.

Linkeddit's answer_action_update changes a card's status, which makes it a write, so the prompt tells Claude to propose status changes and wait for you. Treat the Drive file as a working copy of the queue, and Linkeddit as the record.

Google's page lists create_file and read_file_content and does not describe editing cells in an existing Sheet. Plan on a new dated file per run, and ask Claude to compare it with the previous one.

A useful comparison lists tasks added since the last file, tasks whose status changed, and tasks that disappeared from the queue. The last group deserves a question: a card leaves the queue when it is completed or dismissed, and Linkeddit says a dismissed card suppresses its finding permanently, so confirm which happened before you delete the row.

Close a task on evidence, not on a date. Screpy's guide says no row marked complete should rely only on a planned date, a CMS preview or an unverified assumption. Write the check you will run into the acceptance column before the work starts.

For Answer Radar actions the check is to re-run the same buying question and look at the result, then compare presence over several samples. A completed card releases its finding, so if the gap returns it will appear as a new card with new evidence.