Address and fix critical, but often overlooked and ignored website issues to maximise your online marketing and SEO efforts.
Why audit my site? A web site audit is the professional analysis of your website. It determines which errors are decreasing your site’s quality and visibility on top search engines, as well as determines which elements should be added to your site to rank high on search results. A technical site audit crawls your website to check for broken links, which could damage both your site’s visibility and ranking. Normally, we perform a technical site audit together with an SEO website audit in order to check for broken links within the site, remove blackhat-SEO techniques that might hurt your ranking, and check for duplicate META pages and information, keyword stuffing, and non-SEO friendly links.
Ideally, an online SEO audit report needs to be generated before you launch a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) campaign or an Inbound Marketing campaign. Doing so will help us customise our solutions to build your brand and market your products or services.
Conducting a website audit on your own requires the right skills, years of experience, a proper set of tools (software), and ample time. As a business owner, you may not have these within reach as you need to focus on your company.
With Whitehat’s help, you can focus on growing your business while we check your site and find ways to improve it. Combined with our white hat search engine optimisation and social media optimisation services, your site will be visible, get more traffic and attract new clients.
Keyword Analysis
Website audit reports are performed to identify issues with the website that would negatively impact your ability to rank your website higher in the search engines. However, it is of extreme importance that we take into consideration WHAT you are trying to rank for when someone types in a search phrase into the search engine.
Do you plan on showing up if someone is going to “Google” the search phrase “London accounting firm”? Before running a SEO site audit report we need to identify what your target search phrases are.
What do you want to show up for when someone types in that particular phrase into the search engines? Ideally, a site audit report is to prepare your website for an inbound marketing campaign, and therefore we preferably have a “finalised” list of search phrases that you want to rank for. When we have this list we will further analyse the relationship of those search phrases to your website content and also dig deeper into the competition level of those keywords.
If there are any issues with the search phrases you want to target, we will let you know. This is a vital part of the website audit report because choosing the right search phrases to target is an enormous part of creating a successful inbound campaign.
Content Issues Duplicate and Non-Relevant
About the search phrases you want to target, does your website have a significant amount of content talking about the subject of the search phrases you want to target?
If someone landed on your homepage, would they immediately be able to identify that your website is relevant to all the search phrases you want to target?
Are all the primary written content on your website unique and not duplicate content from another website?
Do you have a lot of non-relevant pages about other products, services, or industries other than the search phrases you want to target on your website?
When it comes to analysing your website’s content vs. the search phrases you want to target, there is a lot to take into consideration and we will report to you any issues we find regarding this on the on-site audit report.
Crawl and Indexing Errors
Ever wonder how Google knows about your website? Google has little robots they deploy to go visit your website and they “crawl” your website. Their robots act like a human clicking through to different pages on your website.
After their robot is finished crawling your website they “index” certain pages of your website in their database. Only pages indexed in Google will show up when a user does a Google search or you run a Google website audit. Why is this important?
Well, if you have a 100-page website and only 5 of your pages are indexed in the Google database, you have a serious problem. What causes pages not to index in Google?
The answer could be poor content, duplicate content, broken links on your page, and any other issues preventing the Google robot from crawling particular pages. Our SEO page audit report will analyse and report on such issues. We can show you how to do website audit reports that help your rankings.
Page Error Issues
Do you know if you have broken links on your website? Many times, pages or the location of pages within your website are changed, and all the other pages with links to the “changed” page are not updated, and thus all the other pages linking to the changed page now have broken links.
When judging a website’s ease of usability, we always look at the number of links as a good indicator. When users click on a link on your website and are directed to an error page, this can cause the user to leave your website out of frustration and not return.
As part of our site audit report, we will analyse your broken links and report to you on any issues we find.
Backlinks Analysis
If you know much about SEO, then you know that the number and quality of websites linking to your website have an impact on your rankings within the search engines.
As a part of our site audit report, we will analyse your current backlinks and let you know if we find any issues other than a lack of back links.
Most people do not think about the page or URL structure of their website when they build it. When the search engine robots visit your website they want to see a recognisable structure of your website.
If you can imagine trying to analyse how all the pages on your website are linked together, it would look like a giant spider web, and the question is … does the spider web make any sense? By the page and content structure on your website, is it easy to identify what your website is about?
Our website audit report will analyse the structure of your website and report on any issues found.
The Main benefits of having a website audit done for you are:
Our Website Audit Report will enhance an online campaign because it covers the most important search engine ranking factors: Website design, structure, crawl-ability, indexing, on-page elements such as page titles, meta description, keyword grouping, as well as content, and off-page elements such as backlinks. Our Website Audit Report ensures we never walk blindly into a marketing campaign for you and it gives you added trust and security in your Inbound Marketing knowing we did our research before jumping into a project. Our Website Audit Report will also improve the experience of your audience and customers as it covers an in-depth assessment of your page architecture, navigation, content, calls-to-action and more.
Why is a website audit report necessary?
In addition to being better prepared to run a campaign, getting a website audit will also protect your website from Google’s algorithm changes. Google is continuously tweaking their algorithms to provide users with search engine results of ever improving quality and relevance.
Two of their major algorithms are called Panda and Penguin. To date, there have been 25 Panda updates since 2011 and 3 Penguin updates since 2012 which has affected 41.4% of search queries.
Panda updates are generally targeted at sites with low-quality content and Penguin updates are targeting web spam.
Many website owners, webmasters and SEO service providers who are using low-quality and web spam techniques are constantly slapped, seeing their rankings and traffic go down.
Our website audit was modelled to consider these search engine updates, which is why our website audit is so extensive. You can always take the short route and do no website audit, and jump immediately into an SEO campaign, but what if you missed something and as a result, all of your hard work and investment into an SEO campaign all went down the drain because you were not prepared for future se
arch engine updates.
Market Research and Analysis
We perform manual and software-driven keyword and keyword structuring research, ranking and competition analysis. We identify priority issues and recommend a fix.
Page Title and Meta Description Troubleshooting
We check for duplicate, missing, and long page titles and meta description as they affect SEO.
Web Design Analysis
We check for possible issues on your website platform and hosting, perform malware checks, analyse your website design, and check for browser compatibility, site loading speed, navigation and content crawl-ability.
Backlinks Report
We check for external links that are pointing to your pages and see if there are issues.
Website Structure Analysis
We check for search engine tools such as Google Analytics, Google & Bing Webmaster Tools. We also check for site-maps and URL structure, internal linking and mapping.
Content Analysis and Optimisation Guidelines
We analyse your content, and check for quality and duplication. We also check for keyword grouping, do URL mapping and check for issues on your target URLs and URL architecting. We then provide content instructions to optimise your content.
Error Troubleshooting Report
We look for broken links and 404 error pages. We also check your Robots.TXT, Robots Meta Tags and indexed pages.
Report Summary and Recommendation
We then provide you with a report summary and provide recommendations line by line with priority tags and pricing to set your expectations.
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Website Audit Report methodology based on thorough research and analysis on current search engine algorithms as well as based on where things are going in the future.
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In-depth consultation with you to understand your business, products, services, and your marketing goals better.
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Growth of your network and get more referrals and join other business owners who are enjoying the benefits of successful online marketing due to a sound Website Audit Report.
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With a successful online marketing campaign coming from a cutting-edge site audit online report, you’ll get higher rankings, more traffic, and more potential leads and customers.
Given the facts, the best time to get a Website Audit done on your site is now
This is to help you recover or protect your website from huge traffic and revenue losses due to algorithm updates such as that of Panda and Penguin or to simply prepare you for an SEO campaign.