## 🗺️ 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**

1. Go to **Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Overview**.
2. Select your site from the site list.
3. Open the **Onpage Optimizations** section.
4. Click into an issue category that shows blank fixes.
5. 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)**

1. Go to **Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Overview**.
2. Select your site.
3. In the **Onpage Optimizations** section, activate **Atlas Agent** to batch-generate fixes across all open issues.
4. 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:

1. Confirm your recrawl has completed by checking **Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Crawl Monitoring**.
2. Navigate to **Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Overview** and open **Onpage Optimizations** for your site.
3. Use **Atlas Agent** to batch-generate fixes across all open issues, or generate fixes individually for your highest-priority pages first.
4. 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.