Technical SEO Audit

Here's the process we go through to do a comprehensive technical SEO audit on your website:

1. Crawl your website. We use state-of-the-art tools such as Screaming Frog and Ahrefs to crawl and map your website. This helps us spot pages that may not be showing up in search.
2. Assess crawlability and indexation. We look at your XML sitemaps, robots.txt file, and indexing settings to make sure search engines can effectively discover your content.
3. Check technical on-page elements. These include your meta tags, title tags, headers, and structured data. We check them against best practices and make sure they align with your keywords.
4. Identify image issues. We check for things like oversized images, missing alt text, or outdated formats. We make sure images preload correctly.
5. Analyze internal links. We make sure your internal linking structure supports efficient and intuitive navigation and distributes link equity.
6. Check external links. We don't just identify broken external links, but make sure they are high-quality and relevant...for example that your page on anemia is not linking to a page about horses. We recommend fixes or replacements.
7. Assess site speed and performance. We look at Core Web Vitals and loading speed in general, and offer solutions for both desktop and mobile.
8. Ensure mobile friendliness. We test your website on a variety of devices to make sure it gives a good user experience. These days, most people search on mobile first, especially for geographically sensitive businesses such as stores and restaurants.

If your website is slow, or if you just migrated your site, or even just because you want to know it's running right, a technical SEO audit is vital.

Cost depends on the size and complexity of your website. Typically, audits start at $1,000 for a full audit including a detailed report with actionable recommendations. If you have unusual needs, talk to us about a customized quote.

So, what makes this kind of audit so important? A lot of the time when we hear "SEO" we think of content and keywords, or maybe of making the site interesting. The fact is that technical issues play a major role in ranking.

Doing a technical SEO audit helps you:

• Uncover hidden issues with your site. This might mean crawl errors or duplicate content. It might also mean issues slowing your site speed. People leave sites very quickly if they don't leave fast.
• Optimize the technical foundation of your website to align with current search engine algorithms.
• Enhance user experience. This includes page speed, but also making sure your site works on mobile devices and across multiple browsers. Accessibility issues are also important here.
• Protect your investment by preventing long-term damage to your site's ranking that can take a lot of time and energy to fix.

We do a thorough technical SEO audit of your website, using our skill and expertise to help check your site's crawlability, index, technical on-page elements such as meta tags, image optimization, broken internal or external links, side speed, and mobile friendliness.

We recommend doing an audit at least once a year for routine maintenance. If you have a lot of traffic or are in a competitive industry, you should audit quarterly.

We also recommend doing an audit after any significant changes or updates.