<\/span><\/h2>\nA technical SEO audit is like a report card that assesses or evaluates your website on all relevant aspects that affect its visibility to search engines. SEO audits can be technical and non-technical in nature.<\/p>\n
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The technical SEO is more to do with external factors that are not part of your content or links on your website. It has more do with the specific guidelines of a search engine or the algorithm that determines the indexation and the crawling factors. It also has something to do with the end-user experience. Technical SEO Audit hence is concerned with checking and cross-checking factors related to visibility, indexation, crawling and user experience for a website. It is essential thoroughly because it is perhaps the only way you would get to know the real technical reason behind the underperformance of your site vis-\u00e0-vis a competitor\u2019s. It is important<\/p>\n
to identify and know where technically your website lags and is inefficient so that the gaps can be fine-tuned and addressed effectively.<\/p>\n
Broadly speaking the steps can be collated as below: –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n| S. No<\/th>\n | Quick SEO Audit Steps<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| 1<\/td>\n | First, check for the issues that are affecting the site\u2019s performance big-time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| 2<\/td>\n | Get on with the analysis of the backlinks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| 3<\/td>\n | Discover on-site problems that are easy to fix.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| 4<\/td>\n | Do a quick content analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n The technical SEO audit does not take days and weeks \u2013 it should typically get over in a few hours. Often the frequent question that is asked is how often the audit should be done \u2013 experts are of the opinion that a full audit should be typically done once in three months whereas a sub-audit or a mini audit can be done once a month.<\/p>\n Here are the requisite steps and ways to handle a technical SEO audit of your website: –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n| S. No<\/th>\n | Technical SEO Audit Checklist<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 1<\/td>\n | Check Header Status<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 2<\/td>\n | Google Indexing & Cache of Pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 3<\/td>\n | Broken Links Check<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 4<\/td>\n | Robots.Txt Creation\/Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 5<\/td>\n | HTML Site Map Creation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 6<\/td>\n | XML Sitemap\/Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 7<\/td>\n | Canonicalization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 8<\/td>\n | Website Usability Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 9<\/td>\n | Footer Optimization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 10<\/td>\n | Breadcrumbs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 11<\/td>\n | Mobile Friendliness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 12<\/td>\n | Custom 404 Page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 13<\/td>\n | URL structure Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 14<\/td>\n | Pagination Tags Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 15<\/td>\n | Page Speed Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 16<\/td>\n | Schema Markup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| 17<\/td>\n | Html Code Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | |
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