I Asked Claude to Add Two Nav Links. It Found Four Things Wrong With My Site.

Hi Reader,

Yesterday I opened a chat with Claude with the smallest possible ask: add two links to my website's nav menu. A "Community" link to my Substack, and a "Demos/Video Tips" link to my YouTube. Two-minute job. I wasn't looking for anything else.

That's it. That's the whole request. Add two nav links so people could actually find my community and my videos without digging.

Claude added them — both open in a new tab, right after Newsletter, exactly where I wanted them. Done in a minute.

Then it kept looking, because I asked it to check the rest of the site while it was in there. Here's what turned up:

• One shared title and description for four different pages. Home, About, Work With Me, and Tools all had the exact same title tag and meta description. Google and social previews couldn't tell my pages apart — every link I shared showed the homepage's title, no matter which page it actually pointed to.
• Off-brand language baked into the metadata. The site-wide description and my About page still said "nonprofits and small businesses." That's not who I serve anymore. It's solopreneurs. Nobody catches that by reading their own site — you've read it too many times to see it.
• No image when the site got shared. No og:image was set, so every link to terrymlee.com dropped into LinkedIn, Slack, or a text message as a blank, generic box. Not broken, exactly — just invisible.

None of this showed up from looking at the site. It only showed up because something made me actually check.

You don't know what you don't know until something forces you to look. I've looked at my own website more times than I can count, and I never once noticed that four pages were fighting over one title tag, or that my metadata was still describing an audience I stopped serving months ago.

A two-line nav request turned into a full pass: unique titles and descriptions for all four pages, corrected audience language sitewide, and a proper branded image for social shares. All fixed in the same afternoon it was found — because finding it was the hard part, not fixing it.

You almost certainly have version of this sitting on your own site right now. Here's the prompt I'd run if I were you — paste your homepage URL in and let it work:

For what it's worth, my own punch list isn't finished. I still need to add a sitemap and structured data, and decide whether my booking page should even be visible to Google. Fixing this stuff isn't a one-time event — it's maintenance.

The prompt above will catch the obvious stuff in an afternoon. If you run an online community — Skool, Kajabi, a membership site — and want someone else to do the deep version, that's exactly what my Community Audit is for: a 17-page report on what's actually working and what's quietly broken, no login required. It's the same instinct as this story, just pointed at your whole community instead of four meta tags.