Seo - Audit Report FOR Abc Corporation
Seo - Audit Report FOR Abc Corporation
FOR
ABC CORPORATION
CONTENT ANALYSIS 11
Content Analysis
Content Score
13
KEYWORD FOCUS
Analysis
Recommendations
Guidelines 15
U R L STRUCTURE
Analysis
Recommendations
Guidelines 17
TITLE TAGS
Analysis
Recommendations
Guidelines 21
META DESCRIPTION
Analysis
Recommendations 22
Guidelines
META KEYWORDS
Analysis
Recommendations 24
Guidelines
HEADING TAGS
Analysis
Recommendations
Guidelines
DUPLICATE CONTENT
Analysis
Recommendations
Guidelines
2 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE EXCLUSIONS
Analysis
Recommendations
Guidelines 33
PAGE INCLUSIONS
Analysis
Recommendations 34
Guidelines
URL REDIRECTS
Analysis
35
Recommendations
Guidelines
BROKEN LINKS
Analysis
Recommendations
Guidelines
CONCLUSION
4 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
Backlink Analysis
Remove toxic links & increase quality and variety of backlinks with relevant anchor
text.
Linking Root Domains
Emphasize on building worthy content, guest blog posts, and high profile press
mentions.
Social Media Visibility
Need to build strong and relevant audience base and brand awareness through social
media especially on Facebook.
5 | ACTION ITEMS
SEO SCORECARD
Content Analysis 6
Keyword Focus 6
URL Structure 6
Title Tags 3
Meta Descriptions 2
Meta Keywords 10
Heading Tags 3
Duplicate Content 1
Internal Linking and Anchor Text 7
Image Names and ALT Tags 9
No-Follow Anchor Tags 10
Backlink Analysis 3
Linking Root Domains 5
Authority & Trust 6
Social Media & Visibility 3
Competitive Link Comparison 5
6 | SEO SCORECARD
ON-PAGE STRUCTURAL
ANALYSIS
For each main on-site SEO topic, there are 3 sub sections: Analysis, Recommendations and
Guidelines.
• The Analysis section details the findings from our analysis.
• The Recommendations section identifies our proposed action items.
• The Guidelines section gives specific instructions for implementing the required changes.
8 | ON-PAGE OVERVIEW
We found that there is significant opportunity to include content and relevant targeted keywords
at Product level. Lack of a text description of the product makes it difficult for the page to be in
the top 10 of a search engine query, even in the case of low-frequency queries.
Webpages with very low content and 8,877 low text content on the page
targeted keywords
Recommendations
6
On-Page Analysis/ Keyword Focus Difficult
Analysis Fix
This section analyzes how well you’ve identified and targeted the keywords that people use to
find your website. While the site does an excellent job of targeting brand terms, product related
keywords are not generating enough traffic to the site. There are 43,258 keywords that are
ranked under 100 and optimized for 3,362 landing pages of ABCCorporation site.
Huge number of keywords driving traffic to just 22,454 keywords for just 229 pages
less number of pages of the site.
Recommendations
A) For the keywords selected for this audit, we will provide detailed recommendations in
the following sections.
B) Huge number of keywords driving traffic to just less number of pages of the site:
C) For keywords that are ranked under 100, but receive no traffic:
D) Product Landing Pages optimized for just 1 or 2 keywords but not driving any traffic:
• <Recommended Next Steps and best practices>
To adhere to the guidelines from the search engines, ideally a unique page should exist for every
root keyword term for which ABCCorporation.com wishes to rank.
Guidelines
• <Recommended Next Steps and best practices>
• 20,653 keywords – Potential keywords that can be optimized. This may include
some of the 48 keywords that are already selected for this audit
• 1,937 Landing Pages – Landing pages that need to be optimized to drive more
traffic.
We found the URL structure to be free of special characters and unnecessary parameters.
However, more readable URL structure can significantly increase the engagement rate it gets
from search-engine users.
Need to include
categories and
subcategories in the URL
structure.
Recommendations
Guidelines
A site’s URL structure is extremely important to both users and search engines. Poor URL
structure can hurt rankings, prevent pages from being indexed and lower your click-through-rate
(CTR).
• It is extremely important that URLs be readable, user friendly, and that they contain the
keyword of the page. Always separate keywords with dashes, not underscores. If
relevant, a geo-qualifier
3
On-Page Analysis/ Title Tag Difficult
Analysis Fix
Optimal length for search engines are between 30 and 65 characters and We found the following
issues
Duplicate <title> tags make it difficult for search engines to determine which of a website’s
pages is relevant for a specific search query, and which one should be prioritized in search
results. Pages with duplicate titles have a lower chance of ranking well and are at risk of being
banned. Moreover, identical <title> tags confuse users as to which webpage they should follow.
Recommendations
We recommend writing a unique and concise title for each of your pages that contains your most
important and relevant keywords.
Guidelines
After the URL, the second most important place on a page to have the keyword is the Title tag.
The Title tag is the first description of the page that search engine users will read, and it is
extremely important to both users and search engines that it contain the keyword they are
searching for. This will not only help to improve rankings, but can significantly improve your
click-through-rate as well.
A proper Title tag will:
<Title> Keyword 1
<Title>
ABCCorporation
2
On-Page Analysis/ Meta Description Difficult
Analysis Fix
The meta description tag serves the function of advertising copy. It draws readers to a website
from the SERP and thus, is an extremely important part of search marketing. Crafting a readable,
compelling description using important keywords can improve the click-through rate for a given
webpage. To maximize click-through rates on search engine result pages, it's important to note
that Google and other search engines bold keywords in the description when they match search
queries.
Optimal length for search engines is between 150 and 160 characters and we found the
following issues
Snapshot -1
Snapshot -2
Recommendations
• <Recommended Next Steps and best practices>
Guidelines
• <Recommended Next Steps and best practices>
URL URL
10
On-Page Analysis/ Meta Keywords -----
Analysis
Guidelines
• <Recommended Next Steps and best practices>
3
On-Page Analysis/ Heading Tag Easy Fix
Analysis
A key feature of the Hummingbird algorithm is Google’s drive and ability to look past the
keywords in a search query and extract the user’s intent. By understanding the search intent
behind a target keyword query, an H1 can be crafted to speak directly to that intent. If Google
agrees with your interpretation of the user’s intent and it is effectively communicated in the H1
tag, this can certainly lead to a ranking promotion.
Recommendations
We recommend remove Multiple H1 and Duplicate H1 tag from the pages and New H1 Tag
should be re-written for for all 37 pages.
Guidelines
• <Recommended Next Steps and best practices>
1
On-Page Analysis/ Duplicate Content Difficult Fix
Analysis
Duplicate content is identical content found on two or more pages on your site. Search engines
may penalize your site if too much duplicate content is found. ABCCorporation site has large
amount of Duplicate Content
Example
1
Example
1
Recommendations
For duplicates in product description, rewrite original content that is descriptive of the product
and is optimized for keywords.
We recommend removing the duplicate content pages and modifying the content on the various
pages to ensure that each page has unique & relevant.
We also recommend removing “Shipping & Returns” Section from all the product pages and
creating a new landing page that contains all the information about Company’s Shipping &
Return Policy and FAQs. This can be referenced as a link in each page.
Snapshot just for your reference - Tractor Supply Company Return Policy Webpage
7
Easy Fix
On-Page Analysis/ Internal Link& Anchor Text
Analysis
We found a significant amount of keyword rich internal linking throughout the site, which is great!
However, we found most of the product pages have product code number based instead of
keywords based anchor text.
Can be replace
with Product
name
Recommendations
Effective anchor text should be done with users in mind. Include Product related keyword
instead using numbers or product codes. Please avoid exact match of the Product title.
Example:
For the above products anchor text / internal link could be “ASC Cultivator Shank”
Guidelines:
Internal and inbound links have a significant impact on a website's organic search value and
performance. Anchor text provides direction on the context of a link, influencing the value it adds
to the recipient domain. Keep a text link to 8 to 15 words maximum as a best practice unless it is
a image alt text.
9
On-Page Analysis/ Image Alt Tags -----
Analysis
Image Alt tags are being used in all the images throughout the site, and the usage appears to be
correct.
Issues Number of Pages
Recommendations
10
On-Page Analysis/ NoFollow Tags -----
Analysis
Rel-Canonical links being used in all the relevant category and product pages and the usage
appears to be correct.
Recommendations
No action is required now
Guidelines
Google measures how different pages link together, and assigns a weight to those links based
on
The rel="nofollow" attribute is an element in an <a> tag that tells crawlers not to follow the link
(e.g., "<a href="http://example.com/link" rel="nofollow">Nofollow link example</a>")."Nofollow"
links don’t pass any link juice to referred webpages. That’s why it is not recommended that you
use nofollow attributes in internal links. You should let link juice flow freely throughout your
website. Moreover, unintentional use of nofollow attributes may result in your webpage being
ignored by search engine crawlers even if it contains a valuable content.
NoFollow tags should be used only on blog comments, site-wide external links, and on any
internal links
INDEXING OPTIMIZATION
ANALYSIS
Indexing Analysis
The Indexing analysis addresses all of the SEO Indexing related issues found on
ABCCorporation.com.
Implementing the recommended changes should provide valuable SEO benefits to
ABCCorporation.com. There are 7 main SEO indexing topics covered, as follows:
For each main on-site SEO topic, there are 3 sub sections: Analysis, Recommendations and
Guidelines.
• The Analysis section details the findings from our analysis.
• The Recommendations section identifies our proposed action items.
• The Guidelines section gives specific instructions for implementing the required changes.
10
Page Exclusions(Robot.txt) -----
Analysis
A robots.txt file was found, and was very well optimized. Page level Meta robots tags such as
the
NoODP and NoYDir tags were present and used correctly.
Recommendations
Guidelines
Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how
to crawl and index pages on their website.
Robots.txt needs to be placed in the top-level directory of a web server in order to be useful.
Example: http://www.example.com/robots.txt
7
Index & Page Inclusions Easy Fix
Analysis
For ABCCorporation, Google has 24,300 indexed and Bing has 49,200 indexed however there
are 24,056 listed in the sitemap. This level of variance means that there are indexing issues
present that are causing the search engines to maintain an incorrect index.
Google 24,300
Bing 49,200
Sitemap 24,056
Recommendations
We recommend to update the Sitemap.xml submitting it through your Google and Bing
Webmaster Tools accounts.
Every page indexed enables the domain to rank for search terms contained on those pages,
which means an additional point of entry. Therefore, it is important to keep track of how many
pages there are and
how many are indexed.
Guidelines
An XML sitemap should be created for every website, and should be updated and re-submitted
whenever changes are made to the site.
10
URL Redirects -----
Analysis
The standard non-WWW to WWW redirects are in place. The only 302 redirects we found were
for Ad Retarget, which is fine. 301 redirects appeared to be used correctly.
Recommendations
Guidelines
Unless a redirect is truly temporary (such as for a time sensitive promotion), 302 redirects should
never be used. 302 redirects don’t pass any link value, and are essentially a dead end for SEO.
In
almost every scenario where a redirect is needed, a 301 redirect should be used.
Any page that changes URLs or is deleted needs a 301-permanent redirect to tell search engines
and users that the page has moved/is gone. There should never be more than one URL path to a
page.
8
Broken Links Easy Fix
Analysis
We found 13 pages with 404 error. This is a very small number of errors when compared to the
total
number of pages that exist, and can be quickly and easily fixed.
Recommendations
Target webpages return errors, we recommend to remove the link leading to the error page or
replace it with another resource.
Guidelines
Because Google and other search engines crawl the web link-to-link, broken links can cause
SEO
problems for a website. When Google is crawling a site and hits a broken link, the crawler
immediately leaves the site. If Google encounters too many broken links on a site it may deem
that
site a poor user experience, which can cause a reduced crawl rate/depth, and both indexing and
ranking problems.
Broken external links lead users from one website to another and bring them to non-existent
webpages. Multiple broken links negatively affect user experience and may worsen your search
engine rankings because crawlers may think that your website is poorly maintained or coded.
Analysis
Based on the Google Analytics data, page load speed is 7.73 seconds that is below average and
is slow enough to impact the your site visitors journey on the site.
335 requests is a significant number, and the number of items loading is a key factor in load
speed.We recommend that no page call in more than 30-40 times, preferably fewer if possible.
In addition, a page size of 3.9mb is significant.
From what we’re seeing, numerous images on the home page are the causing of the slow load
speed.
Recommendations
We recommend that page size be kept to 500kb or less than 1MB to avoid load speed issues
and recommend reducing the image file sizes as much as possible for images. Or Categories
and Popular items should be displayed Instead of displaying the products on the home page.
Guidelines
Page load speed officially became a part of the Google search ranking algorithm. For usability
reasons, best practices dictate that a web page should load within 1-2 seconds on a typical DSL
connection. However, as per Google Webmaster Tools data a load time of 1.4 seconds is the
threshold between a fast page and a slow page. That means, ideally, that every page on your
website should load in 1.4 seconds or less, to receive the maximum SEO benefit for fast loading
pages.
Google gathers page load time data through actual user experience data collected with the
Google search toolbar, and may also be combining that with data collected as Google crawls a
website. As such, page load speed in terms of the ranking algorithm is being measured using the
total load time for a page, exactly as a user would experience it.
For each main on-site SEO topic, there are 3 sub sections: Analysis, Recommendations and
Guidelines.
• The Analysis section details the findings from our analysis.
• The Recommendations section identifies our proposed action items.
• The Guidelines section gives specific instructions for implementing the required changes.
3
Backlink Analysis Difficult Fix
Analysis
We found 4,020 backlinks coming from referring domains, This is a significant number of links,
but it is still far behind many of the ranking competitors in your space.
This bar graph shows the distribution of all analyzed backlinks according to their toxic level.
There are 52 links are toxic and 148 links are potentially toxic
Recommendations
Remove toxic links & increase quality and variety of backlinks with relevant anchor text.
Immediate action is required to clean up the toxic backlinks either Disavow Links or get in touch
with referring domain owners if unable to delete it. Toxic backlinks are the unnatural links that
harm the search rankings of a website. Google’s Penguin update focuses on penalizing the
websites that have a bad backlinks profile.
Guidelines
Google, and all search engines for that matter, look at links as a signal as to how legitimate a
website is. One of the key ranking factors is inbound links, and Google looks at those for the
following:
Toxic Links
<excel list attached>
Analysis
We found 286 linking root domains pointing into ABCCorporation, however the number is still far
behind many of the ranking competitors in your space.
We also noticed that Domain and Trust Score is very low for most of the linking domains
This graph shows the referring domains Trust Score and Domain Score
Recommendations
We recommend working to significantly increase the number of linking root domains, there is still
significant room for improvement.
We also recommend emphasizing on domain diversity (getting links from many different
domains) and domain authority (a mix of high and medium quality sites). The creation of link
worthy content, guest blog posts, and high profile press mentions should be a key focus. Should
be aware of low quality sites.
Guidelines
The very best links come from trusted domains (sites like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
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Authority & Trust Moderate Fix
Analysis
The Domain Authority is on a 100-point scale, with any site above 40 are considered a fairly
good quality site, and sites above 70 are considered truly high quality. mozRank and mozTrust
are very like Google’s PageRank, and serve to measure the distance of your site from trusted
and authoritative websites.
ABCCorporation.com is below average in terms of trust and authority
Recommendations
By further increasing the number of high-quality inbound links, and especially the number of high-quality
linking root domains, the trust and authority of ABCCorporation.com will continue to increase. By
focusing link building efforts on ever higher quality websites these metrics will increase faster than
they would with links from average sites.
Social Media activity will also contribute to increasing Domain Authority for ABCCorporation.com
Guidelines
Pages earn mozRank based on the number and quality of other pages linking to them. The higher
the quality of the incoming links, the higher the mozRank. mozTrust is determined by calculating link
“distance” between a given page and a seeded trust source on the Internet, such as .edu and .gov
pages.
3
Social Media & Visibility Difficult Fix
Analysis
Weekly Activity
Engagement
• Competitors have huge number of followers on Facebook and better engagement rate
when compared. RuralKing is enhancing their audience engagement through their
product review, short product videos, DIY videos and product offer images.
• They have also adopted contest and poll ideas to improve their engagement. Rural king
has also implemented store on their Facebook page which contributes to increase the
site visits.
Recommendations
There are opportunities in building audience base and brand awareness through social media especially
on Facebook. Extending the reach and engaging the audience through coupons and a deal offer increase
the site engagement as well as the conversions. Competitors have significant Social media presence and
is an essential channel to develop and grow in the medium term.
Guidelines
Social media and SEO are the two tightly interlink strategies. Social channels not only gain traffic and
ranking to the site, but will helps in customer engagement with quality content and with active participation.
If done perfectly then we can expect great outcomes. With social signals, brand popularity will be increased.
Increase in brand reputation do affect the SEO and also business.
Analysis
Observations
Recommendation
* Grades are assigned between A - F based on how well a site is performing against the factors used for the
audit. A being highly optimized to F being very low on the parameters used for the audit
>>Usage of the
targeted keywords are
not better than
competitors.
Recommendations
Recommendations
Conclusion
By working to fix the on-site issues, off-site issues identified in the audit and implementing
content and backlink recommendations we will be able to achieve higher rankings for relevant
and competitive keywords.