@MarkJ_TX
This is a good idea to put SEO first as the main reason we build a page is for people to able to easily see it.
This might not answer your question but might be helpful for the requirement of making pages more visible(SEO).
If you are using RTE, it might restrict to only where are large description or formatting. There are other
We didn't use RTE but we use JSON-LD at page level as a page property. This way you can set common data at the template level and make modifications for page specific at the page level.