Technical SEO Website Audit
Updated 8.16.2023
Businesses often need help to find their site strengths, and weaknesses, and pinpoint advanced opportunities to win featured snippets found in search engine page results (SERPs).
Shortened user attention spans, more devices, the fast adoption of mobile search, higher levels of Internet use, very specific markup for Aggregated Reviews, and more intense completion all add up. Your business needs the benefits of a clean and healthy website that doesn’t send search engines packing. We can help you gain every advantage possible once we learn what is broken, if it is your JSON-LD for an image, or structured data markup for a product, or whatever, and what opportunities are waiting for the taking. Website configuration errors commonly come along with template use and they can stop your content from getting found.
What is a Technical SEO Audit?
A technical website audit reveals hidden “site health” issues that may impede your progress in gaining visibility in SERPs as well as to identify topical lapses across your entire website that your viewers want information on. It will take a look at foundational site SEO issues and much more.
Technical SEO is a critical aspect of Search Engine Optimization. It focuses on the technical optimization standing and possibilities for a website’s improvement. Diagnostics start with the source code, operating systems, and server configurations. Technical SEO is never solely responsible for a good ranking of keywords, but rather a prerequisite for further optimization actions.
A Deep SEO Audit Is a Whole Different Product
What is a technical SEO audit?
A technical SEO audit is a thorough diagnostic process with the intent to check the technical aspects of your website’s SEO. It evaluates the health of a website and finds out what is broken and needs fixing. As well it identifies weakness that might be to improved, outdated coding practices, and what may be slowing an entire site down. It also identifies search engine bot crawl issues while checking and optimizing a site for various factors that impact its performance, visibility, and usability in search engines. This includes making sure the website is responsive, uses mobile-friendly URLs, loads fast, and is optimized for mobile search.
Consider that fact that your website is a highly visible representation of your company and can work very effectively at finding new leads for business growth. Once it is technically healthy, well-optimized, and has earned trusted domain authority, you may be labeling it as the best functioning employee that grows your business revenue. You can leverage Artificial Intelligence to engage the right site visitors.
You may have jumped at the opportunity to take advantage of several free site audits. Hopefully, you gained a measure of improvement. But many come to us even more at a loss of knowing what is wrong and why they are dropping in SERPs. If what used to work to gain relevant site visitors is tapering off, and you’re scrambling for new business, we can help!
The success of our technical SEO website audits has proven to align customer needs, search engines’ ability to crawl your site more effectively and your business goals. In simple speech, your ability to improve search engine rankings bears a direct reflection of your brand and whether or not you have the chance to engage potential customers online.
Generally, our audit will diagnose the problems a site has. No one initially wants to see that, and we quickly move past a “problem focus” to how the real goal – eliminating issues that hold your business back and switch that up to “new ways to advance your online marketing.” Often eComerce website technical issues remain un-hidden until a dedicated effort stares them in the face, undaunted by faults, and fixes them! Hill Web Marketing is passionate to see that clients have success, so we go in under the hood and often catch issues, especially that affect load speed that have been previously missed.
Repairing on-site errors that have technological roots may not solve all of your problems. By taking this practical approach, we can also better assess whether or not you targeting the right audience, if you’re the voice of your language appeals to potential customers, and reveal additional online advertising opportunities. The end value you gain includes a marketing plan that helps your business deliver greater value to prospective buyers.
Do Small Businesses need a Skilled Technical SEO Professional?
Businesses are looking for people with strong Technical SEO skills and yet most SEO professionals feel that they are weakest in Technical SEO, according to a survey by SEMrush. They came up with the 7 Most Valuable SEO Skills of 2018, with such technical skills leading the list. Expert use gleaned from deep experience with Google tools followed by On-page SEO, Keyword research, backlink management, Mobile SEO and local seearch marketing skills fill out the rest of the list.
A skilled tecnical SEO auditor is vital to every small business.
Ross Tavendale, SEMrush Managing Director of Type A Media, says, “In large networked agencies being a technical SEO is seen as a specialism with most SEO consultants getting by with keyword research and on-page skills.”
What a Technical SEO Site Audit Involves
Effective white hat SEO starts with different technical facets of a website. Performing a technical SEO audit attains the details as to whether all your web pages and digital content are being crawled or indexed correctly. With the heralded advent of Penguin and Panda Google Algorithms, a gentle nudge told us that these tags were available to use for clarifying certain information. Today it is no longer hinted at – all major search engines are asking for it and using it.
Schema.org and Google structured data markup are unique coding techniques available for websites to encourage search engine’s ease in returning relevant and favorable returns for users. Learn more about our schema audits.
A quick and ready resource to start a technical SEO audit is Google Webmaster Tools. Here most SEOs can obtain immediate feedback as to the technical health of your website. Another free tool is the W3C Markup Validation Service****, where you can see HTML and CSS errors and warnings that are negatively affecting the performance and usability of your site. We use many additional for-pay diagnostic tools, know how to glean the most from them, and how to interpret the findings that you really need. It is easy to become exhausted and buried in a backlog of SEO reports; in themselves, they are useless.
16 Primary Things our Technical SEO Audit Reveals
The Technical side of your website can resolve website performance issues and improve search visibility.
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1. Site indexation
2. Server and Hosting Issues
3. Test site’s robots.txt file
4. 404 error test
5. HTTP and HPPTS status test
6. HTML & XML sitemap checks
7. Video, news & image sitemaps
8. Website load speed
9. Check for Problematic URLs
10. Quality of mobile experience
11. Canonical Sites & Canonical Tags
12. Subdomain checks
13. Desktop and Mobile Image Optimization Test
14. Use of Flash Content
15. Link building practices
16. Landing pages
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1. Site Indexation Issues
Often an audit begins by determining which pages are indexed and which ones are not. Be apprised of your Google index status. It is key to gaining visibility in Google’s local map pack and other featured results. We use special search methods to test results that signal how well your site is indexed by Google and other search engines. We can help you understand how site redirects are handled and well as more complex JavaScript pages. If the sum of pages indexed has dropped, you most likely will experience a decrease in traffic levels, which can hurt site visits and the revenue they generate.
If you are changing name servers, that alone should not cause any changes in SEO ranking; however, there may be other factors about the new server that could produce changes in search engine ranking. These changes in ranking will not happen because of the nameserver change; they may occur because of issues related to the new server. A few include low-quality neighbors in the same bucket, low bandwidth, overseas locations, lag issues, DOS issues, poor hacker protection, and excessive downtime. Think of the problems you will encounter if you have are pointing AdWords advertising to a landing page that cannot even display because the entire site is down!
2. Chart host server Up-time and Down-times
Often business owners do not realize that their web host’s server may be an issue that hinders business bottom lines. If your website has problems loading, whether or not the proxy server is refusing connections should be checked. Learn if you are in great hands, you need to upgrade or move. Due to recent Google algorithm updates, server errors are increasingly detrimental for a website’s SEO and SERPs rankings. Test your website’s server for uptime and downtime or any disadvantageous experiences producing errors. With more need to have your site in squeaky clean working order, it is important for webmasters to take immediate care of them before growing into more harmful issues. 404 page errors might be easily fixed with a custom www.clickx.io. They state that “404 page or 301 redirects are one thing, but a 5xx server error is a different beast. There are two main server errors that people should look out for and fix.”
It is really surprising and rewarding to see how much impact that updating to a faster web host has. After migrating several client’s site – without changing anything else – some sites improved from average to lightning fast speed. Users don’t have to wait; you don’t lose the on-the-go visitor.
3. Test site’s robots.txt & .htaccess files
We will help you determine if it has errors or can be improved upon. Deepcrawl.com says, “Auditing URLs being blocked by robots.txt is potentially massively risky to your rankings”. A robots.txt file facilitates control over how Google’s bots crawl and index your public pages. There may be many issues to be solved that this audit churns up, and finding the wrong disallowed URLs is one of them.
When your site has thousands of pages, and yet only a portion of them show up indexed by checking Index Status, it is time to dig deeper. You need every page working hard on your behalf. Knowing number is one thing, but truly understanding why what that number means and why your site’s other pages are not indexed in quite another matter. It is not practical for most business owners to take the time to learn what the issues could be, where to check, or what exactly to look for.
4. 404 error test
It is easy for you or someone to remove a URL that is no longer relevant without taking proper steps. If you or someone has done so without the knowledge of how it impacts your site’s health, this is a critical task.
Broken 404 links have the potential to destroy your online business over time. Most SEO audit tools rank them among the worst offenders that degrade your site’s health. The indirect damage may be significant. When Google or other search engines notice that users commonly bounce from your pages, it may trigger a judgement that your page, and sometimes entire site, it deemed irrelevant.
404 errors and dead links are frustrating to users because they go nowhere. When that repeatedly occurs, visitors are less likely to return. GoogleBot and other search engines consider a range of factors to rank a page, but when visitors have frowned on your site and abruptly exited, a negative bounce rate comes into play as well.
5. HTTP and HPPTS status test
It is challenging for non-technical marketing and web design experts to also understand these aspects of a site’s success. They are already accomplishing a lot. A thorough technical SEO audit takes a close look at the status code, response headers, redirect location and possible redirect chains of any given HTTP connection. Redirect loops cause giant-sized problems as the browsers are left to try and try again to resolve this issue when you want your pages to display in a second if possible. We can often halve the number of HTTP requests without making any changes to the visual user experience.
6. HTML & XML sitemap checks
You want to have both effectively working to help search engines and users understand your website. There are various ways to set them up and maintain them. We will help you establish best practices and the latest formats.
7. Video, news and image sitemaps
By choosing your preferred sitemaps to submit to search engines, you have more control – but it is not guaranteed. For sites with well-developed content, we recommend the use of multiple sitemaps that offer the advantages of unique features. We believe that every technical SEO site audit should focus on every advantage it can offer you.
According to Conductor, as of March 2016, a startling “33.8% of search marketers don’t know where their XML sitemaps are located”. That is what many a business faces who hires an SEO staff without doing their research well first. An even fewer percentage know how to utilize media rich sitemaps. These are great when you have a website with a ton of rich media. These assist in gaining higher SEO rankings for video and image tags used by Google search.
8. Website load speed
It is easy to load up a website with fun graphics, sliders, and tons of accompanying files that make them stunning without realizing that they may drastically impact a site’s speed. Every file that a browser has to open and read in order to render a web page takes time. Sometimes they end up needing to make round trips that again take valuable time while the user is waiting. Opinions range on the importance of site speed as a ranking factor, especially with mobile optimization factors.
The Core Web Vitals Report in your Google Search Console helps indentify load speed issues. Whatever you believe, most concur that it is a fundamental element of a great user experience. Website Gzip compression makes it possible to lower the weight of web pages and any other content often by 30% or less of its original size.
By eliminating render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content, page load speed improves and users enjoy the benefit of needing to scroll less. Google says, “None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.” We find and fix issues that impede a site from being crawled and indexed quickly.
WordPress sites that rely on plugins are often the biggest culprit for slowing a site down. Many times common tasks are relegated to a plugin because they are easy and quick to use. For example, once you know the logic, it is easy to hand code the essential schema markups that you need. How would many a do-it-yourself entrepreneur even know what the tradeoff’s are? Often the same job can readily be fulfilled in a few simple steps. For example, do you really need to bloat your entire site’s size by relying on WP to compress your images? There are many free tools that can do the job before you upload them. Or is a plugin that helps you read your Google Analytics or Search Console reports worth possibly being enough slower so that a viewer moves on before it loads? Commonly, a technical site audit discloses lots of JavaScript files from plugins that weren’t even being currently used.
9. Check for Problematic URLs
CMS and blog platforms sometimes create dynamic or messy URLs when new content is generated. For example, you may face pages like “index.php?p=142087″ rather than a nice clean and useful URL. Not only do you miss the chance to give GoogleBot keyword clue in your URL, but you may damage your site credibility with search engines and site visitors. Next, it is vital to update those URL wherever used internally, or correctly set-up 301 redirects on the old URLs.” Locating and dealing with excessive parameters or session IDs will improve your site.
10. Quality of Mobile User Experiences
The demands of how a website needs to perform to engage mobile users are rapidly evolving. If your website’s performance offers a weak user experience on smartphones, wearable devices, and tablets and is slow to load on mobile, potential buyers will likely hit the dreaded back button. Some companies reroute users to another mobile-friendly site, but doing so can cause challenges. A few just to briefly mention are an increase in resource consumption and maintenance tasks.
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are now live and favored by search engines. User preferences are behind the craze for better and faster mobile pages. It’s so new that we understand why most businesses are unsure of what they should do in response. Mobile use is expanding and for site that have the added profit benefits of Google Ads marketing, the advantages of being highly mobile optimized quickly pay off.
11. Canonical Sites & Canonical Tags
Your site long-term history may have dimmed over time from your focus, but not from search engines. I am amazed at the number of time we uncover canonical sites or issues using both www and non-www URL addresses, or other duplicated formats that spoil ranking abilities. It is necessary to tell Google which of several URLs you prefer for its indexing to help avoid duplicate content issues.
Almost without notice, frequently websites end up with multiple versions of the homepage; while ultimately reached through various URLs, problems come along with it. Having several versions of your homepage may generate unwanted duplicate content issues. On top of that, it likely is diluting link equity that your site receives by spreading across the different URLs.
12. Subdomain checks
You may be diluting your site’s authority, creating two or more weak sites from subdomains instead of one strong, authoritative site. If you want to achieve an authoritative website status with search engines, one which ranks high across many web pages, then you need to create strong relationships among your pages and know the impact of any subdomains.
13. Images Optimization Test
We all love seeing web pages that are visually appealing, and we have tons of image options to choose from. What often goes unseen is how the same stunning visuals may adversely impact how the page loads and other technical SEO Metadata aspects. Custom images loaded with exquisite fonts and intense colors may make the page compelling, but to Google, it’s just an image. There are also methods to help your images pull up in image searches. By blending modern Web fonts, HTML, and CSS resources, the attractiveness of a great image may be kept while the integrity of your site’s SEO is upheld.
14. Outdated Use of Flash Content
Though Flash has been recognized widely as a form of outdated content, some of today’s websites, especially larger ones, still have it. This impedes search engine robots that are attempting to index your content and understand what your business is all about. It is not practical to in turn expect rankings for your “unseen” content. There is a myriad of newer technologies such as HTML 5, CSS 3, structured data implementation, and JavaScript that readily replace Flash.
15. Link Building Practices
Finally, build links naturally to your web page. There is no alternative to link building. Nor should it come first. Links are still an integral Google ranking factor. Without affirming quality backlinks, your page simply may not pull up in SERPs, even if you have the best copy.
Google’s Penguin updates put pressure on site owners to review the new definition of what questionable link building practices are and where they may be in its crosshairs. Link building is essential for a positive site backlink profile, but it also introduces chances of risk unless you are confident of how to do it correctly.
Planted only for SEO purposes, spam-like, irrelevant, and “black-hat,” or “pure bad,” backlinks can cause your site to fall into the penalty zone. Backlinks should be gained through relationships that trust your web content and accrue at a natural pace, be diverse, and from varied trusted sources. In addition to whom links to you, your outbound links, and cross-linking between internal pages is also important. Our audit will include an overview of your site’s external links, internal links, whether or not they are do-follow, and the anchor text that they are comprised off.
16. What are the Essential Elements of an Effective Landing Page?
There are five core landing page elements. These include 1) a compelling offer, 2) a simple form, 3) established trust, 4) compelling images, and 5) visual hierarchy to make the page easy to use. A lot technically goes into each one working perfectly. Also, the new Google BERT algorithm looks for topic relevance and authoritative factors.
While the reason for creating your page is to engage your audience and give them answers, if your landing pages start to rank for highly-sought search terms, you can test different copy or CTA’s to increase your conversion rate. Copy should avoid overuse of a Keyword phrase; that is called keyword stuffing. This is when a page is doused with the same keywords and long-tail phrases that relate to the main search term. It’s an old SEO practice that today you should avoid at all costs. Even if your landing page has strong copy, testimonials, engaging video, content that’s’ emotionally engaging, and structured data markup, your web page still need the right sort of inbound links.
Auditing Site Inbound Links
– A website’s backlink profile is made up of external links that point to the site.
– As search engines decipher who is atopic authority expert they consider backlinks to a site as votes.
– The HTML tags associated to that link may have either a nofollow or an dofollow attribute. They factor into how search engines rank a site and pass link juice.
17. Too many Ads or Popups
Since the implementation of Panda‘s existence, the volume of ad-space on a given page has become one aspect of our technical evaluations. There is a preferred content balance you should have above the fold on a PC. You may have pushed the limits and tipped the balance into have more ads than unique content; which needs remedying.
• That no “shadow” domains exist that funnel users to a site by using deceptive redirects.
• That no “doorway” pages are found that make you suffer from with keyword stuffing penalties.
• That no hidden black hat links exist.
We all make mistakes and we all are continually learning. A technical SEO audit also finds opportunities – not just black hat SEO – and errors that no one intended. Besides, how fast is SEO changing? When someone that you have never heard of claims to be an SEO expert that can guarantee rankings, allege a “special relationship” with Google, or advertise a “priority submit” to Google, walk the other way.
3 Essential Pillars of Website Architecture Review
• Use of breadcrumbs and improvement opportunities
• Main level navigation and site pagination analysis of data science architecture
• Review of site footer menu and content analysis
It is awesome when someone jumps in and seeks to learn and get a job done. There is a place and time for that, but when it comes to something that could tank your web presence, make sure and SEO / SEM expert is at the helm. There are business ethics that come into play in every industry. Unfortunately, in the SEO industry, there have been plenty of deceptive practices. The Google Search Engine Optimization Guidelines are pretty well laid out and easy to follow.
And we cannot forget how the new Google search generative experience and mobile world is influencing the technical aspects of your website and the key to customer journey mapping.
Understanding the Technicalities of the Mobile-First Index
The mobile-first index affects through how Google’s new method of indexing may affect how crawlers see your site based on the mobile experience. As, well, there seems to be new way of weighting internal linking practices. One aspect of Technical SEO is making sure that no orphaned pages exist, every published page or post should offer helpful content and be linked to from somewhere on your website.
You really cannot expect search engines to think that the page is worth indexing if you don’t value it enough to link to it yourself.
Tim Capper says, “Google is increasingly looking at pages as they appear on mobile for all the things it was previously using desktop pages for — namely, establishing ranking factors, the link graph, and SEO directives.” For example, Google has changed how FAQ content and HowTo pages can be marked up with schema. This may mean adapting your FAQ strutrued data implementation to compy with new rules.
How Often is Technical SEO Diagnosis Needed?
Depending on the stakes involved for your business income, how often a business needs a technical SEO audit varies. Typically, we recommend conducting somewhere between monthly and quarterly. An e-Commerce website owner seeking to improve sales may be super keen to have issues solved asap. Depending on the scope and complexity of the site, consider conducting a quick audit anywhere between once a week and once a month.
That might come across as overkill, but if the site is well-maintained by keepomg on par with current SEO tactics, to begin with, often this is just a routine check-up. If your webmaster uses a significant number of automated processes, plugins, third-party resources to manage reviews, and your development team is working on multiple updates on at any given time, even minute SEO mistakes can quickly spiral out of control.
Therefore, it’s a good idea to schedule your next technical SEO audit to be sure and numb any burgeoning SEO issues before they become more challenging and cause you a loss of income. Sometimes a trained set of fresh eyes on a large site with a busy, overworked development team is a huge advantage to quickly identify what is causing sinkholes in your site and how to remedy them.
Getting Technical Where your SEO Matters Most
Schema markup is very powerful. Check regularly for structured data drift; it easily occurs during content updates.
In our experience a site a a high percentage of broken links may signal that no one is present to maintain it and keep it current and relevant. The Google Rater Guidelines Document uses broken links to determine the homepage’s quality”. Many sites fail to schedule re-occurring audits and miss when links break and other technical issues impair a site’s performance.
Some aspects of a website’s design merit little attention; other aspects of the technical side of things can completely knock a site out of view.
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Cost of a Technical SEO Audit and Timeline
We understand that most businesses are cost conscience. We conduct our research well and encourage prospective clients to do so before purchasing or committing to a service. We’ll be transparent with you upfront: our in-depth audits aren’t cheap. Our commitment is to offer a high-value service may be entirely different than what you are used to.
Providing real value involves going to great lengths to do so. Being relational as well as technical means that you can be assured of answers that explain what that value is to your business. When you are serious about reaching new business markets and expanding your brand equity, you are both ready to make the needed difference. We love it when clients make a dedicated effort to digest our SEO progress reports, which are analyzed in tandem with Google Analytics SEO reports, and then implement the necessary actions.
The number of pages your site has that we need to analyze, a number of extraneous files that may need combining, the number of images that need optimization, and your site’s history are just a few factors that roll into the cost of a technical SEO audit. Hill Web Marketing covers the cost of tools needed to perform your site’s audit. Similarly, the same factors impact how long this form of thorough audit typically takes.
When your business stays apprised of the continual changes in what is required of a winning website, advances in SEO technologies and combines with our determination and SEO expertise, we promise results! To market your products and services effectively, you need a champion that can help you to out-perform your competition without having to work too hard.
Resolving potential issues uncovered in a technical audit can also improve secondary signals that Google considers when deciphering search rankings, including page visits, time spent on a page, site visit duration and impact of bounce rates. Good health is always one of the best long-term investments that you can make. And learning healthy SEO best practices will make your site’s health much easier to maintain for years to come.
“Successful SEO is one-third on-page optimization, one-third off-page optimization (such as backlinks), and a third clean website structure that’s free of technical issues.” – Bill Sebald, owner of Greenlane SEO
“As the SEO game matures and evolves it’s even more important to clean up site messiness. If the Penguin updates hurt your site, it may be necessary to disavow questionable backlinks to it, and if necessary, ask webmasters to remove those links to your site.” – cio.com
“Google can become suspicious of sites that present different content to different devices, depending on how it is accomplished. Google’s crawlers must cover a lot of ground. Google can’t consume all of the data, especially when one considers that Google must revisit each page again and again to find changes or new material. Anything that slows Google’s discovery or crawling of the Web is unwelcome.” – Michael Stricker
“For large SEO analyses or major audits that take a significant chunk of time (e.g., 40+ hours), an outside expert is usually more detailed and able to get it done sooner. This is especially the case if the in-house team is trying to get it done in between their other tasks. Getting a robust analysis done so you know what to improve and focus on can bring significant SEO improvements.” – Kevin Rowe*
Why is Technical SEO Important?
Technical SEO is critical to a business’s revenue streams which are dependent on an excellent website structure, accurate coding, indexing, and load time. It helps the search engines crawl and index your product pages and cornerstone content. As SEO continually develops, Google’s Algorithmic advancements offer up more and more chances to improve your consumer engagement online. This means that the technical aspects of SEO continue to become a more important area of focus.
Let’s look at some market research statistics that demonstrate why the technical correctness of a website is so important.
1. A technically correct site yields better clicks and conversion rates. Brian Dean posted Aug. 27, 2019 study results on Backlinko in his Here’s What We Learned About Organic Click Through Rate article *.
- The #1 result in Google’s organic search results has an average CTR of 31.7%.
- The #1 organic result is 10x more likely to receive a click compared to a page in #10 spot.
- On average, moving up 1 spot in the search results will increase CTR by 30.8%.
2. It is more effective than PPC. Jen Barrell’s December 11, 2019, 26 SEO statistics for 2020 article says that “70% of marketers see SEO as more effective than PPC.” For your SEO to be powerfully effectivey, you have to know and comply with by Google’s frequently changing rules. Ranking high on Yahoo and Bing is important because they also bring people to your website. However, both small and large businesses that rank tops in Google Search are most likely win organic clicks and new business.
What is NOT Considered in the Average Technical SEO Website Audit?
* A web content review for true or misleading advertising
* A PPC campaign audit
* Nor is it a deep dive in duplicate content, advanced opportunities in structure data, or an in-depth backlink audit. While offering a summary in all of these areas, each one merits its own dedicated audit.
NOTE on misleading mobile advertising and business ethics: Whatever niche you are in, we each stand in our own shoes when it comes to using the strategies and tactics we use. “We don’t need to follow the flock. If, as in this case, we’re in an industry known for misleading advertising, we can choose to stand out by being transparent, honest and consumer-focused. It’s our choice, whichever route we decide to take,” says Marketing Consultant Jim Connolly. So, you may be wondering about costs. That’s a good question.
Which Crawl Errors are most Important to Fix in Technical SEO?
To determine which crawl errors to fix first we look at which pages your business relies on for its evergreen sales revenue. Hill Web Marketing typically starts with checking for any indexation issues, robots.txt file mistakes, and Meta robots NOINDEX issues.
Andreas Schwabe reported in The Real Cost of Poor Website Quality that “companies can attain up to a 26% gain in the effectiveness of their marketing spend by maintaining an error-free, fully functioning website”. The May 23, 2020 post found in their research that the most common problems are oversized pages, slow-loading pages, and broken pages. Our experience aligns with that.
We also recommend prioritizing auditing and improving your essential schema markup types, especially your Local Business or Organization structured data.
How much does a Technical SEO audit cost?
A Technical SEO audit will cost you anything between $1,200 to $20,000 depending on the size of your website and problems it is generating for your business. Rarely do find that anything less than a budget of $1,500 can adequately discover and resolve a technical onsite issue. In some cases where there are only a few pages and the fix requires little time, we can identify that and implement the fix needed for less.
Honesty, integrity, and leadership remain high-value personal and business credentials. I endeavor to live by this approach in all my relationships and projects. All of my search marketing practices use only white-hat ethical and effective SEO tactics. We strive to answer all your question and help you be the best answer to your client’s questions. Our technical SEO audits begin at $1,500 (price available through July 31, 2024).
The technical side of SEO fascinates me, I love learning more and more about ways it can eliminate barriers to rankings while helping businesses reach their ideal audiences. Currently we are learning and applying more e-Commerce schema markup formats to improve sales for Retailers.
Congratulations for reading to this point. It proves that you are serious about optimizing your website for both search engines and visitors. Now we can step in and do the grunt work for you, let you know your next steps. In the meanwhile, read through common FAQ’s about search and SEO.
5 Star Client Review for Technical SEO
“Hill Web Creations has solved our most difficult SEO problems and is always quick to respond to our questions. Highly recommended!” – Robert Riesberg
SUMMARY
Identifying and Fixing Technical Errors can have a significant, Immediate & Positive Impact on Rankings
Plans to become ready for new business growth may mean engaging an SEO expert who can move you forward with the various types of SEO audits you need. In the long run, many of these practices fall into gray area between webmasters and SEO’s. But we can draw alongside your existing hardworking staff and offer the knowledge to guide your webmaster in future SEO efforts.
Call us to schedule your Technical SEO site Audit and learn if any Google Algorithm Updates Impact Site SEO
* https://www.searchenginejournal.com/maximize-seo-budget/228603/
** https://validator.w3.org/
*** https://backlinko.com/google-ctr-stats
**** https://www.impactplus.com/blog/seo-statistics