Mobile and Desktop SEO Audits - Rocks Digital Marketing Conference 2018

Bill Hartzer
Bill HartzerSEO Consultant at Hartzer Consulting
Mobile & Desktop
SEO Audits
Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
About Me
• SEO Consultant, Hartzer.com
• Blogger, BillHartzer.com
• Founder, DFWSEM Association (2004)
• US Brand Ambassador, Majestic.com
• Brand Ambassador, OnCrawl.com
• Formerly Senior VP, Advice Interactive
• Senior SEO Strategist, Globe Runner
• Director of SEO, Standing Dog
• Practicing Organic/Natural SEO since 1996
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Mobile SEO Audit?
Desktop SEO Audit?
Both?
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Is Mobile or Desktop More Important?
• Depends on the website
• Some websites only get small percentage of mobile visits
• Check GA
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Important for Mobile SEO Audits
• Mobile friendliness
• Page load speed
• Are mobile pages performing?
• Schema, Rich Snippets, AMP?
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Important for Mobile SEO Audits
• Review mobile bot crawling activity
• Mobile 1st index ready?
• Mobile 1st indexing enabled? Message in Google Search Console
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Start with Mobile SEO Audit Basics - Validation
• Validate if site is Mobile Friendly
• Google "mobile friendly test"
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Mobile SEO Audit Basics - Crawling
• Crawl site using mobile user agent
• Screaming Frog
• Sitebulb
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Basic Mobile SEO Audit Questions
• Responsive design?
• Redirect to subdomain for mobile? Is it indexed?
• Are best performing pages mobile friendly? GA, GSC?
• Mobile interstitials being used? Use App banners
• How is site ranking on mobile?
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Basic Mobile SEO Audit Questions
• Are competitors ranking on mobile?
• Does the site have an app?
• Need mobile app visibility in search?
• Create deep links to app content
https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/deep-linking
• Site using proper schema code and rich snippets?
• Site using AMP? Check the Google AMP test?
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Mobile vs. Desktop: Content Parity Audit
• Crawl with mobile user agent, compare with desktop ua
• Check mobile vs. desktop:
- number of pages
- number of indexable pages
- noindex tags
- robots.txt settings
- number of words on pages
• Screaming Frog UA setting, compare crawl data
• Sitebulb - 2 crawls (1 desktop, 1 mobile), compare crawls
• OnCrawl – Review Bot crawling activity, GA activity
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Mobile vs. Desktop: Content Parity Audit
• Compare Number of Outlinks on Desktop vs Mobile
http://www.thegooglecache.com/mobile-links.php
• Compare Source Code on Desktop vs. Mobile (if you have
two different pages)
https://www.diffchecker.com/diff
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Desktop SEO Audits
• Many issues have affect mobile and desktop
• Include those mobile checks with larger SEO audits
Key Points for Desktop SEO Audits
• Site Structure
• Internal Links
• Duplicate Content, Crawl Budget
• Structured Data
• On-page Factors
• External Links
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Overview - My SEO Audit Process
• Before You Begin
• Gather Data
• Analyze
• Present Results
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Before You Begin – Info to Gather
• Access to website (if possible), log file data
• Google Analytics, Search Console access
• Bing Webmaster Tools access
• Prior history: What SEO was done in past?
• Prior history: Domain Names used
• List of Domain Names owned, redirected
• List of Competitors
• Ask: anything else we need to know?
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Content – Review Content on Site &
Rankings
• Google Search Console - Search Analytics
• SEMrush.com Keyword Research
• Review Current Rankings
• SimilarWeb Traffic and Data
• SERPStat Data
• Google Analytics Data
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Google Search Console
> Search Analytics
> Pages Analysis
What does
Google think?
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Current rankings, Focus on Pages Ranking 5th to
20th
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Gathering Phase
• Gather the Data
• Save the Data (MS Excel, MS Word)
• Start making notes (Notepad)
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Google Searches
• site:domain.com
• site:domain.com –site:www.domain.com
• Click last page of SERPs to get page count
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Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Adjust to crawl
large site over
100k pages
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Compare: Pages Crawled vs Pages Indexed
SERPS Redux
bookmarklet,
compare lists of
URLs in MS Excel
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Integrity (aka Scrutiny)
What it does:
• Crawls site, reports redirects, 404 errors
• Mac only, can find more site errors
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Siteliner.com
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Bing Webmaster Tools
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Bing Webmaster Tools
• Spot issues to fix
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Google Search Console
• Search Analytics
• Structured Data
• HTML Improvements
• Search Traffic
• Crawl Data
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SEMRush Site Audit
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Website Log Files
• Weblog Storming, AwStats
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Website Log Files, Crawl & Analytics
• OnCrawl combines all three
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Website Log Files, Crawl & Analytics
• Deep Crawl combines all three, as well
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Audit Site Structure
• Internal Link Structure
• Manual Review of Site
• URL Hierarchy
• Grouping of Topics
• GA: In-Page Analytics
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Run Sitebulb
• Internal Link Structure
• Review Silos
• Review Content clusters
• Other SEO audit issues
Sitebulb.com
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Run Cora SEO Software
• Measures over 300 factors
• Calculates which ones matter most
• Run on site’s main keywords
• See the most important factors for each keyword
• On-site, on-page, and offsite factors included
• Shows you what factors your site is missing based on
correlation data of top 100 results for that keyword
• https://www.hartzer.com/cora/
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Sample Cora SEO Software Results
• Roadmap for keyword
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Gather Off-Site Data
• It’s not all about on-site and on-page.
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Google Search Console Links
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Ahrefs Links
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Majestic.com Links
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Majestic.com Topic Review
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Majestic Trust Flow, Citation Flow
• Trust Flow = # of clicks from seed set of trusted sites to a URL or Domain
• Citation Flow = Number of citations to a given URL, or Domain
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Majestic Anchor Text Review
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WebPageTest.org
• Page Performance
Check:
• Time to first byte
• Compress images
• Caching
• Use of CDN
• Waterfall
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Miscellaneous Data to Review
• All sorts of extras
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Site Speed, DNS Health
• Tools.Pingdom.com
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Site Speed Review – Google Analytics
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Robots.txt Issues
• Default CMS file?
• Disallowing wrong?
• Using “allow”?
• Not specifying sitemap.xml URL
• Directives conflict with other signals
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Sitemap Issues
• New pages not updated on sitemap
• Multiple sitemap issues
• No sitemap file?
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Subdomain Issues
• Duplicate content?
• Using subdomain rather than directory
• Wildcard subdomains turned on?
• www versus non-www issues
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Canonical Issues
• Review canonical tags
• Not using canonical correctly
• Conflicting signals with canonical, others
• Canonical tags to help with dupe content
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Use of Structured Data
• Taking advantage of Schema.org
• Not just for local addresses
• Reviews and Events
• Person, Place, Organization
• Products and Offers
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Local Listings – Audit the listings
• Google My Business
• Bing Places for Business
• Yahoo! Local
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Local Citations – Separate Audit
• Are citations correct?
• Same address, suite #, phone number?
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Analysis Phase
• Analyze the Data
• Make Assumptions
• Make Recommendations
• Analyze the road
• Analyze the conditions…
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Analysis Phase
• Analyze gathered data
• Look for Obvious Issues
• Look for Odd Data Points
• More notes!
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Analyze Google Analytics
• Changes over time, year over year data
• Conversion Data
• Bounce Rates
• Pages Per Session
• Drops in Traffic:
Panda or Penguin
in past few years?
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Panda, Penguin, Search Engine Traffic Issues
From Past?
• Verify with SEMRush, Google Analytics, SimilarWeb
• Moz Google Algorithm Change History
moz.com/google-algorithm-change
• Marie Haynes Google Algo Update History
mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/
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Analyze Keyword Data, Rankings
• Look for keyword opportunities
Anything ranking on 2nd page?
• Review SEMRush Keyword Data
• Review GSC Search Analytics
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Analyze On-Site Data
• Title Tags
• Meta Descriptions
• Headings H1, H2, H3, H4, etc.
• Internal Anchor Text
• External Links (outgoing links)
• Canonical Tags
• Hreflang Issues
• Google Pages Indexed vs. Crawled
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Analyze On-Site Data
• Conflicting signals? Overall Topic focus
• Conflicting signals?
Robots.txt vs. Canonical vs. Meta Robots vs. Nofollow
• Internal Duplicate Content
• Not Enough Unique Content
• Internal links within content present?
• Review Navigation
• Review Footer, footer links, copyright
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Analyze Off-Site Data
• Link Velocity Matters (getting new links)
• Review anchor text (over optimized?)
• Diversity of anchor text
• Look for Toxic, Low Quality Links
• Run Link Risk, Link Detox report
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Presentation Phase
• Present the Data
• Show the Results
• Make it look great!
• Action Plan
• Implementation Plan
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Present The Results
• Use internal or formal doc needed?
• Who will implement?
• Implement changes in-house? Outsource?
• MS Word doc, spreadsheets with data
• PowerPoint needed for presentation?
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Present The Results - Document
• Cover Page
• Table of Contents
• Overview (summary, positives, negatives)
• Website Crawlability (404s, 301s, One-Page issues)
• Content Optimization (site arch., keyword issues)
• Linking (Internal links, externals links, link profile)
• Overall Recommendations
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Finally – Additional Lists
• List of Priority Issues
• Present Action Plan for Implementing
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SEO Audit Toolset
• WebPageTest
• Google Search Console
• Google Analytics
• GPSi page speed insights
• G Structured Data Test
• GSC Disavow
• GSC Fetch & Render
• Marie Haynes' Disavow Blacklist
• Builtwith
• Server Software Detection
• SEO Server Header Checker Tool
• SSL Server Test
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• Google Mobile Test
• Google AMP Test
• Bing Mobile Test
• W3c mobileOK Checker
• Deep Crawl
• Google AW Keyword Planner
• Moz Keyword Explorer
• What is my IP
• Redirect Checker
• Serpstat
• Semrush
• GA Code Checker
SEO Audit Toolset
• W3c CSS Validator
• W3c Markup Validator
• hreflang testing tool
• tracker map
• OSE, Majestic
• Ahrefs
• Link Research Tools
• Kerboo
• Bing Webmaster Tools
• Panguin tool
• OnCrawl
• Cora
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Mobile SEO Audit Tools
• Google Mobile Friendly Test
• Structured Data Testing Tool
• Google Rich Results Test
• Google Pagespeed Insights
• Schema Markup Generator
• URL Checker
• Bulk URL Checker
Contact
Bill Hartzer
SEO Consultant
Email: Bill@BillHartzer.com
Phone: (214) 236-4378
Web: https://www.hartzer.com
Twitter: @bhartzer
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bhartzer
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  • 2. Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits About Me • SEO Consultant, Hartzer.com • Blogger, BillHartzer.com • Founder, DFWSEM Association (2004) • US Brand Ambassador, Majestic.com • Brand Ambassador, OnCrawl.com • Formerly Senior VP, Advice Interactive • Senior SEO Strategist, Globe Runner • Director of SEO, Standing Dog • Practicing Organic/Natural SEO since 1996 @bhartzer
  • 3. Mobile SEO Audit? Desktop SEO Audit? Both? @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 4. Is Mobile or Desktop More Important? • Depends on the website • Some websites only get small percentage of mobile visits • Check GA @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 5. Important for Mobile SEO Audits • Mobile friendliness • Page load speed • Are mobile pages performing? • Schema, Rich Snippets, AMP? @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 6. Important for Mobile SEO Audits • Review mobile bot crawling activity • Mobile 1st index ready? • Mobile 1st indexing enabled? Message in Google Search Console @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 7. Start with Mobile SEO Audit Basics - Validation • Validate if site is Mobile Friendly • Google "mobile friendly test" @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 8. Mobile SEO Audit Basics - Crawling • Crawl site using mobile user agent • Screaming Frog • Sitebulb @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 9. Basic Mobile SEO Audit Questions • Responsive design? • Redirect to subdomain for mobile? Is it indexed? • Are best performing pages mobile friendly? GA, GSC? • Mobile interstitials being used? Use App banners • How is site ranking on mobile? @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 10. Basic Mobile SEO Audit Questions • Are competitors ranking on mobile? • Does the site have an app? • Need mobile app visibility in search? • Create deep links to app content https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/deep-linking • Site using proper schema code and rich snippets? • Site using AMP? Check the Google AMP test? @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 11. Mobile vs. Desktop: Content Parity Audit • Crawl with mobile user agent, compare with desktop ua • Check mobile vs. desktop: - number of pages - number of indexable pages - noindex tags - robots.txt settings - number of words on pages • Screaming Frog UA setting, compare crawl data • Sitebulb - 2 crawls (1 desktop, 1 mobile), compare crawls • OnCrawl – Review Bot crawling activity, GA activity @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 12. Mobile vs. Desktop: Content Parity Audit • Compare Number of Outlinks on Desktop vs Mobile http://www.thegooglecache.com/mobile-links.php • Compare Source Code on Desktop vs. Mobile (if you have two different pages) https://www.diffchecker.com/diff @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 13. Desktop SEO Audits • Many issues have affect mobile and desktop • Include those mobile checks with larger SEO audits Key Points for Desktop SEO Audits • Site Structure • Internal Links • Duplicate Content, Crawl Budget • Structured Data • On-page Factors • External Links @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 14. Overview - My SEO Audit Process • Before You Begin • Gather Data • Analyze • Present Results @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 15. Before You Begin – Info to Gather • Access to website (if possible), log file data • Google Analytics, Search Console access • Bing Webmaster Tools access • Prior history: What SEO was done in past? • Prior history: Domain Names used • List of Domain Names owned, redirected • List of Competitors • Ask: anything else we need to know? @bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits
  • 16. Content – Review Content on Site & Rankings • Google Search Console - Search Analytics • SEMrush.com Keyword Research • Review Current Rankings • SimilarWeb Traffic and Data • SERPStat Data • Google Analytics Data Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 17. Google Search Console > Search Analytics > Pages Analysis What does Google think? Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 18. Current rankings, Focus on Pages Ranking 5th to 20th Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 19. Gathering Phase • Gather the Data • Save the Data (MS Excel, MS Word) • Start making notes (Notepad) Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 20. Google Searches • site:domain.com • site:domain.com –site:www.domain.com • Click last page of SERPs to get page count Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 21. Screaming Frog SEO Spider Adjust to crawl large site over 100k pages Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 22. Compare: Pages Crawled vs Pages Indexed SERPS Redux bookmarklet, compare lists of URLs in MS Excel Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 23. Integrity (aka Scrutiny) What it does: • Crawls site, reports redirects, 404 errors • Mac only, can find more site errors Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 24. Siteliner.com Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 25. Bing Webmaster Tools Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 26. Bing Webmaster Tools • Spot issues to fix Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 27. Google Search Console • Search Analytics • Structured Data • HTML Improvements • Search Traffic • Crawl Data Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 28. SEMRush Site Audit Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 29. Website Log Files • Weblog Storming, AwStats Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 30. Website Log Files, Crawl & Analytics • OnCrawl combines all three Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 31. Website Log Files, Crawl & Analytics • Deep Crawl combines all three, as well Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 32. Audit Site Structure • Internal Link Structure • Manual Review of Site • URL Hierarchy • Grouping of Topics • GA: In-Page Analytics Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 33. Run Sitebulb • Internal Link Structure • Review Silos • Review Content clusters • Other SEO audit issues Sitebulb.com Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 34. Run Cora SEO Software • Measures over 300 factors • Calculates which ones matter most • Run on site’s main keywords • See the most important factors for each keyword • On-site, on-page, and offsite factors included • Shows you what factors your site is missing based on correlation data of top 100 results for that keyword • https://www.hartzer.com/cora/ Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 35. Sample Cora SEO Software Results • Roadmap for keyword Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 36. Gather Off-Site Data • It’s not all about on-site and on-page. Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 37. Google Search Console Links Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 38. Ahrefs Links Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 39. Majestic.com Links Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 40. Majestic.com Topic Review Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 41. Majestic Trust Flow, Citation Flow • Trust Flow = # of clicks from seed set of trusted sites to a URL or Domain • Citation Flow = Number of citations to a given URL, or Domain Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 42. Majestic Anchor Text Review Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 43. WebPageTest.org • Page Performance Check: • Time to first byte • Compress images • Caching • Use of CDN • Waterfall Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 44. Miscellaneous Data to Review • All sorts of extras Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 45. Site Speed, DNS Health • Tools.Pingdom.com Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 46. Site Speed Review – Google Analytics Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 47. Robots.txt Issues • Default CMS file? • Disallowing wrong? • Using “allow”? • Not specifying sitemap.xml URL • Directives conflict with other signals Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 48. Sitemap Issues • New pages not updated on sitemap • Multiple sitemap issues • No sitemap file? Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 49. Subdomain Issues • Duplicate content? • Using subdomain rather than directory • Wildcard subdomains turned on? • www versus non-www issues Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 50. Canonical Issues • Review canonical tags • Not using canonical correctly • Conflicting signals with canonical, others • Canonical tags to help with dupe content Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 51. Use of Structured Data • Taking advantage of Schema.org • Not just for local addresses • Reviews and Events • Person, Place, Organization • Products and Offers Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 52. Local Listings – Audit the listings • Google My Business • Bing Places for Business • Yahoo! Local Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 53. Local Citations – Separate Audit • Are citations correct? • Same address, suite #, phone number? Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 54. Analysis Phase • Analyze the Data • Make Assumptions • Make Recommendations • Analyze the road • Analyze the conditions… Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 55. Analysis Phase • Analyze gathered data • Look for Obvious Issues • Look for Odd Data Points • More notes! Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 56. Analyze Google Analytics • Changes over time, year over year data • Conversion Data • Bounce Rates • Pages Per Session • Drops in Traffic: Panda or Penguin in past few years? Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 57. Panda, Penguin, Search Engine Traffic Issues From Past? • Verify with SEMRush, Google Analytics, SimilarWeb • Moz Google Algorithm Change History moz.com/google-algorithm-change • Marie Haynes Google Algo Update History mariehaynes.com/algo-changes-and-more/ Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 58. Analyze Keyword Data, Rankings • Look for keyword opportunities Anything ranking on 2nd page? • Review SEMRush Keyword Data • Review GSC Search Analytics Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 59. Analyze On-Site Data • Title Tags • Meta Descriptions • Headings H1, H2, H3, H4, etc. • Internal Anchor Text • External Links (outgoing links) • Canonical Tags • Hreflang Issues • Google Pages Indexed vs. Crawled Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 60. Analyze On-Site Data • Conflicting signals? Overall Topic focus • Conflicting signals? Robots.txt vs. Canonical vs. Meta Robots vs. Nofollow • Internal Duplicate Content • Not Enough Unique Content • Internal links within content present? • Review Navigation • Review Footer, footer links, copyright Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 61. Analyze Off-Site Data • Link Velocity Matters (getting new links) • Review anchor text (over optimized?) • Diversity of anchor text • Look for Toxic, Low Quality Links • Run Link Risk, Link Detox report Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 62. Presentation Phase • Present the Data • Show the Results • Make it look great! • Action Plan • Implementation Plan Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 63. Present The Results • Use internal or formal doc needed? • Who will implement? • Implement changes in-house? Outsource? • MS Word doc, spreadsheets with data • PowerPoint needed for presentation? Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 64. Present The Results - Document • Cover Page • Table of Contents • Overview (summary, positives, negatives) • Website Crawlability (404s, 301s, One-Page issues) • Content Optimization (site arch., keyword issues) • Linking (Internal links, externals links, link profile) • Overall Recommendations Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 65. Finally – Additional Lists • List of Priority Issues • Present Action Plan for Implementing Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer
  • 66. SEO Audit Toolset • WebPageTest • Google Search Console • Google Analytics • GPSi page speed insights • G Structured Data Test • GSC Disavow • GSC Fetch & Render • Marie Haynes' Disavow Blacklist • Builtwith • Server Software Detection • SEO Server Header Checker Tool • SSL Server Test Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer • Google Mobile Test • Google AMP Test • Bing Mobile Test • W3c mobileOK Checker • Deep Crawl • Google AW Keyword Planner • Moz Keyword Explorer • What is my IP • Redirect Checker • Serpstat • Semrush • GA Code Checker
  • 67. SEO Audit Toolset • W3c CSS Validator • W3c Markup Validator • hreflang testing tool • tracker map • OSE, Majestic • Ahrefs • Link Research Tools • Kerboo • Bing Webmaster Tools • Panguin tool • OnCrawl • Cora Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits @bhartzer Mobile SEO Audit Tools • Google Mobile Friendly Test • Structured Data Testing Tool • Google Rich Results Test • Google Pagespeed Insights • Schema Markup Generator • URL Checker • Bulk URL Checker
  • 68. Contact Bill Hartzer SEO Consultant Email: Bill@BillHartzer.com Phone: (214) 236-4378 Web: https://www.hartzer.com Twitter: @bhartzer Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bhartzer Rocks Digital 2018: Mobile & Desktop SEO Audits