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This week we’re looking a much closer look at on page SEO for reasons we discussed earlier.
Specifically:
We’re going to go through and discover all of the current SEO problems on your site.
We’ll:
Before performing a full SEO audit on your site.
Believe me when I say:
Nearly every website has issues.
So don’t worry about whatever state your website is in right now.
To prove this to you, I’m going to perform all of these tests on my award-winning SEO blog
It’s been over a year since my last audit.
That means there are definitely some nasty issues lurking beneath the surface I need to fix.
So, let’s get to it…
There are 4x on page SEO problems most sites suffer from:
So we’re going to focus on finding all of these problems to see where we stand before doing anything else.
You’ll need 5x page URLs to perform this week’s “spot check” tests.
These 3x pages are compulsory:
If you’re not sure which page is your “heaviest” you can use a tool like GTMetrix to find out.
(My “heaviest page” is this blog post at 11.8mb.)
Once you have these URLs you can choose any 2x:
You’ll then need to make a copy of this Google Sheet…
…and add your URLs to the first tab, “URLs to Spot Check”:
Now we’re ready to run through some tests this week…
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