🗺️ Understanding the Two-Step Model
OTTO's workflow is divided into two distinct stages that must each be completed separately.
Step 1 — Issue Discovery: When you run a Site Audit or recrawl your domain, OTTO scans your site and surfaces SEO issues and opportunities in the Onpage Optimizations section. This step identifies what needs to be fixed. It does not automatically create suggested fixes.
Step 2 — Fix Generation: Suggested fixes must be actively generated for each issue after discovery. They will never populate on their own as a result of crawling or recrawling. This is the step most customers miss.
❓ Why Are My Suggested Fixes Blank?
Seeing hundreds of blank suggested fixes after a site audit or recrawl is expected behaviour — it is not a bug or a processing delay. A blank fix field simply means no fix has been generated for that issue yet.
Common reasons this happens:
- You recrawled the site but did not trigger fix generation afterwards.
- Only a small initial batch of fixes were generated in a previous session (for example, 4–6 out of hundreds of issues), leaving the rest blank.
- Fix generation requires a deliberate action — either manual or via Atlas Agent — and does not run in the background.
Important: There is no automatic background process that will populate blank fixes after a recrawl. Waiting will not cause fixes to appear.
✅ How to Generate Suggested Fixes
You have two options to generate suggested fixes for your open OTTO issues.
Option 1 — Generate Fixes Manually
- Go to Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Overview.
- Select your site from the site list.
- Open the Onpage Optimizations section.
- Click into an issue category that shows blank fixes.
- For each issue row, click the Generate Fix action button to create the suggested fix for that specific issue.
Option 2 — Use Atlas Agent (Recommended for Large Sites)
- Go to Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Overview.
- Select your site.
- In the Onpage Optimizations section, activate Atlas Agent to batch-generate fixes across all open issues.
- Atlas Agent works through the full issue list and populates suggested fixes at scale, saving you from processing hundreds of rows individually.
⚠️ What Recrawling Actually Does
Recrawling refreshes the issue discovery layer only. It will:
- Detect new SEO issues introduced since the last crawl.
- Mark previously resolved issues as fixed.
- Update issue counts and page-level data.
Recrawling will not:
- Generate or populate suggested fixes for any issues.
- Trigger any background reprocessing of fix content.
- Replace the manual or Atlas Agent fix-generation step.
🚀 Step-by-Step: Fix Blank Suggestions Now
If you are seeing hundreds of blank suggested fixes, follow these steps to resolve it:
- Confirm your recrawl has completed by checking Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Crawl Monitoring.
- Navigate to Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Overview and open Onpage Optimizations for your site.
- Use Atlas Agent to batch-generate fixes across all open issues, or generate fixes individually for your highest-priority pages first.
- Refresh the page after generation completes to see all suggested fixes populated.
If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.