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Today I’m going to teach you how to do an SEO site audit. With this lesson, there’s going to be a lot of factors and a lot of things that we’re going to be breaking down. In addition to that, we’re going to show you how you can do this through Ubersuggest, which is an SEO tool. So that way, you don’t have to do this all manually.
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You want to first find the areas that you need to fix on your website, so first off, go to Google and type in site, colon, and put in your domain .com. Once you hit search, what you’ll see is a list on Google. You’ll either see one result, which is not good, you want to see more than one. You’ll see zero results, which is not good either and if you have that, don’t worry, we’ll teach you how to fix this.
So once you know that you can be seen, you want to make sure there’s only one version of your website.
Then I want you to go to Ubersuggest, type in your domain name. It’ll take you to an overview report under the traffic analyser.
If you’re seeing more traffic over time, that’s great. If you have a new website or a website that’s barely old and you haven’t done much SEO, you’re probably going to see no results. And that’s okay as well because as you implement some of these changes that I’m going to teach you, your numbers are going to go up, you’re going to rank for more keywords which is what the bottom graph shows you, and you’re going to get more traffic from Google, which is what the top graph shows you.
And this report’s also cool because you can put in some of your competitors and it allows you to compare how you’re doing to your competition over time.
Now it’s time to go and analyze your website to see what’s wrong, what you need to fix and how you can get more traffic.
So with the SEO site audit report, it shows you an overview. Your critical errors, your warnings, your recommendations.
You have to fix your whole site.
Then you also want to look at the warnings tab and then the recommendations tab as well.
If it shows that you have thin content, that’s not good. You want to fix that. Not every page is going to be perfect and have a lot of text, but fix the ones that make sense.
Because when people search on Google for images, and the image search is very popular, especially niches like travel, if you don’t have alt tags, it’s harder for Google to decipher what that images is about.
You also want to look at internal links. Throughout Ubersuggest, once you put in your URL, assuming you’re getting more and more traffic, eventually you’ll see your top pages report load up with a ton of examples.
Backlinks, really important factor because the more sites linking to you, the better you’re going to do as well. But not all links are equal, some are bad, some are good. This report shows you all the people linking to you and the anchor text of the link.
Going back to the site audit report, you want to make sure you don’t have broken pages or broken links. It’ll point that out as well and you can fix those.
The next thing to check out is site maps. So within Google’s Search Console, you want to upload a sitemap. They report on it. You can just put in any URL, like your website .com slash robots.txt and you can see what’s being blocked or what’s not.
Remember how I showed you that top pages report? If you have a new website, you won’t see much there, but if you have an existing website and a ton of traffic, you want to make sure you’re linking to those top pages when it makes sense because it’ll even help them get more traffic, more social shares, more backlinks over time.
And of course, last but not least, I want you to check for penalties. So go to Google Search Console, look at manual actions and just make sure there’s no issues detected. Because if there are, you want to fix them.
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This is the second lesson of my free SEO course called SEO Unlocked. Today I’m going to be going over SEO and why it’s important. Did you know that 93% of online experiences start with a search engine? You may think, “All right, there are these search engines out there.” “Yeah, sure we know Google.” But for a minute, just think about how many times you go on Google or search, or YouTube and search, or Kayak and look for hotels or flights, there are search engines all around us and we’re constantly using them. Before we get started into going over SEO, there are a few things I wanted to cover: There’s a lot of people saying false information out there, so I wanted to play a little fun little game called Fact or Fiction.
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The first one: My industry is too hard to get ranked in.
Second one: Only big companies can do well on Google. Then I always hear, the more pages I have, the better.
Now let’s go over all five of them.
The first one: It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, you can always rank on Google.
Now, of course, creating an account on Google Search Console and submitting your sitemap isn’t a bad thing to do. And you don’t need to spend a ton of money to win online, and that’s why I started to get into SEO.
There are three main keys that you really need to understand if you want to win online.
The first is, why is SEO so important? Look, SEO’s a process of optimizing any given search word, or term, for a search engine on your site. So no matter what time of the day or what country people are in, when they’re searching, you can be found, you’re getting that traffic, and some of it will end up converting into sales.
The next key to winning online is choosing your battleground. They dominate search on all landscapes. So when you look at the desktop, they’re an estimated 4.5 billion active internet users, and Google’s search share for desktop is 87%. That’s roughly 8.7 out of 10! That’s an amazing result.
And just being on there isn’t enough. Your position is everything! Over 31.7% of people click on position one, according to Advanced Web Ranking.
The third key, which is unlocking the SEO factors to win online.
One thing that you can do is go to Ubersuggest, click on the Site Audit Report in the left-hand navigation, once you’re there, and look at your website, and it’ll breakdown the factors that Google is looking at.
You’re probably wondering, “Hey Neil, this is all great, “but what’s the Holy Grail of SEO?” “What’s that silver bullet?” Well there’s not really a silver bullet. It’s a lot of little things that add up, and I’m going to go over them.
One of them is Page Speed. For every second delay means roughly 7% reduction in conversions, according to HubSpot. So you want to make sure your site loads fast.
The next thing I want you to look at is Mobile User Experience. Look, the number of people that are using mobile devices is continually going up. So much so that Google has a mobile-first index.
The next factor that I want you to look at is Topical Content. The more detail that you go into on each page around the same topic, the better you’re going to end up ranking. Versus if you go really broad and cover a lot of random topics, but you don’t go in-depth on all of them.
Another factor and this is from Ahrefs, it’s all about URL Length. The longer your URL length, the lower your rankings are. So you want to keep your URL short and to the point.
Another thing to look at is Content Length. Generally speaking, the longer your content, the more social shares you’re going to end up getting, the better you’re going to end up doing.
Backlinks are another big factor. And as you can see from this chart by Ahrefs, backlinks have more of an impact on your rankings than On-page SEO; that’s getting sites to link to you, it’s super important.
And one thing that very few SEO’s looks at is the power of brand and user signals. The ex-CEO of Google once said, “Brands are the solution, not the problem.” “Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.”
These days security is a big issue as well, so you want to make sure you’re using an SSL Certificate, so that way you get that HTTPS. Because when people go to your website and you’re not using SSL, you’re more likely to get a warning.
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Today I’m going to walk you through the process I use for on-page and technical SEO optimization. This is one of the foundations of any successful SEO campaign, so whether you’re running an audit to pinpoint specific actions you need to take to improve your website or you’re going after more ambitious goals with your SEO campaigns, this is something you have to master.
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