Actionable tips to identify the issues & opportunities that matter the most and capitalize on quick wins and higher potential queries to drive out SEO efforts
Aleyda SolísInternational SEO Consultant & Founder at Orainti
Strategical SEO Audits that Drive Growth at #DigitalOlympus
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Strategical SEO Audits that Drive Growth
Actionable Tips to Identify the Issues & Opportunities that Matter Most
#StrategicSEOAudits del #DigitalOlympus by @aleyda from @orainti
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SEO Audits > Checklist
Validating the current status of your SEO is just the start
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Your audits should not only validate & assess all of the
areas influencing your site organic search status
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Technical Configuration
CRAWLABILITY & INDEXABILITY
Content
RELEVANCE
Links
POPULARITY
Your Site
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But also take into consideration your current search
performance, behavior & potential of target audience
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Current Organic
Search Performance
Your Site
Technical Configuration
CRAWLABILITY & INDEXABILITY
Content
RELEVANCE
Links
POPULARITY
Audience Search
Behavior &
Industry Potential
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Current Organic
Search Performance
Audience Search
Behavior &
Industry Potential
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.. as well as the existing situation vs. your competition
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Your Site
Technical Configuration
CRAWLABILITY & INDEXABILITY
Content
RELEVANCE
Links
POPULARITY
Your Competition
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Current Organic
Search Performance
#crossfunctionalseo at #SearchFest by @aleyda from @orainti
To prioritize & target your SEO processes actions accordingly
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Your Site
Technical Configuration
CRAWLABILITY & INDEXABILITY
Content
RELEVANCE
Links
POPULARITY
Your Competition
High
Low
Medium
Medium
Low
Low
Audience Search
Behavior &
Industry Potential
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Here you have a few questions to make your audits
strategical & target them to drive growth
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Let’s start by understanding your current organic
search performance vs. your competitors
Current Organic Search Performance
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Which are your current best ranked queries and their related
metrics per device? Clicks, Impressions, Position
Identify those with a top
position but low CTR as
well as the existing gap
per device for each
metric
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Do the same analysis with your content: which queries are they
ranking and for which they have a best & worst performance?
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Easily go through the queries for
each page by using URLprofiler
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Or onpage.org! Use Onpage too to identify your areas &
categories bringing more organic search visibility
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What’s your organic search visibility vs. your competitors?
It’s about a higher volume or better positions?
Puregym has more traffic
with less terms: Target
More volume or has
better Rankings?
Use SEMRush
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Which Queries Are Driving this Organic Search Visibility
& Traffic to your competitors vs. Your Site?
Identify the ones
they target that you
don’t or the ones
both of you are not
ranking well with
Use SEMRush
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Which Pages Are Driving Organic Search Visibility
& Traffic to your competitors vs. Your Site?
Identify which
content they have
and are getting
traffic with that you
still don’t
Use SEMRush
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These questions will likely allow you to identify
quick wins to prioritize your SEO actions targeting!
Top pages that your
competition is already
leveraging to get top
organic visibility & traffic
Top queries that you’re still
not ranking well but you
already have content for
+
Top queries that your
competitors are already
ranking well for but you are
not
Top pages that both your
competitors and you are
not ranking that well with
high volume queries
+
Top queries for which
you’re already ranking well
but you have a low CTR
Top queries per device that
you’re still not leveraging
with specifically relevant
content but it will be easy to
create
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Now let’s assess the existing search potential
and the gap vs. your own & competition status
Audience Search Behavior & Industry Potential
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What additional queries do your audience have?
Expand per category, location & characteristics
Identify which
content they have
and are getting
traffic with that you
still don’t
Use SEMRush
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Check also those that your competition used to
rank with in the past but have lost over time
Identify the potential
reason for the lost:
Change of content or
Web structure?
Use SEMRush
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Which of these queries categories & locations have a
positive search trend & higher mobile search volume?
Use Google’s Keyword Tool
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Which of your competitors are making the most out of the
identified mobile search potential & how are they doing it?
Identify the specific queries & pages
they’re using to target them: Compare
them to yours!
Use Sistrix
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What’s the identified top queries difficulty & which ones offer
the opportunity to increase visibility w/ SERPs functionalities?
Use SEMRush
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These questions will likely allow you to prioritize
queries with higher growth opportunities
Queries with high search
volume and low difficulty
level that you already
have pages for but
you’re not ranking with
Queries with low-medium
search volume & low
difficulty level with a growth
trend over time
+
Top Relevant Queries that
your competition used to
rank for but are not
targeting anymore
Queries with high
difficulty level but SERP
functionality that is easily
targetable
+
Queries with high search
volume & low-medium
difficulty that you’re not
targeting but is easy &
meaningful to create
content for
Specific Mobile search
queries that you’re still not
targeting with your Mobile
Web presence
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Let’s verify your link popularity status
& the gap vs. your competition
Link profile & preferences
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What’s your site link authority
vs. your competitors?
Identify if it’s a matter of
link volume or popularity
Use CognitiveSEO
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Which Websites are linking to your
competitors that are still not linking to you?
Do their unique links
coincide with the ones of
higher authority?
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Which Pages Are Getting More links
to your competitors vs. Your Site?
Compare the targeted queries & topics and
correlate with those with higher visibility
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What type of sites are providing more links
to your competitors vs. your own?
Identify the share of site wide, high
domain influence & links per country.
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What’s the share of highly optimized
links vs. “spontaneous” ones
Is there any specific tactic that can
be identified from these links
characteristics?
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Which of your links and those of your
competitors are going to error pages?
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Based on the identified characteristics: What
type of links you should prioritize to create?
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And last but not least, how you’re optimizing your pages from
a technical and content perspective for those priority queries
Content & technical Optimization
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Verify if your non-indexable, redirected, canonicalized,
blocked or error pages coincide with those that you should
use to target your highest potential queries
Prioritize the technical optimization of
those pages that will target the queries
with highest potential
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Prioritize the optimization of content & key elements -titles,
descriptions, headings, text, images- for those targeting top
queries
Start optimizing the key content
elements of those pages with the
highest opportunities
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Are you not sure if you should target the query or not?
Follow this Flow-Chart!
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By Following these questions & process your audits will
prioritize those actions that will drive the highest growth
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Questions?
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