SEO Audit
Handmade, not automated.
WebLoudly’ Battle Audit® done by experienced SEO experts. Yep, real people with a real expertise in SEO. No `-bots and no software spitouts.
Research and Resolution
Success in organic search is dependent on search engines finding, reading and evaluating website content. If that content is hindered in any way, organic performance can be impacted significantly.
Obstacle Detailing
Once the obstacles are uncovered, WebLoudly outlines the obstacles and provides customized recommendations for addressing the obstacles based on the information we know about your site, CMS and server.
Implementation
WebLoudly then prioritizes the order in which each should be addressed by providing the impact level each obstacle has on organic performance and the level of effort we estimate each will require within our On Page SEO services.
Scalable Campaigns
Launching a startup with limited capital? No problem. Want to test our process before ramping up budget? Sounds good to us. With WebLoudly, all campaigns are structured to allow for seamless scalability. We’ll prove our model and you’ll see revenue soar.
Real-time Analytics
Digestible reporting for those on the go and extensive reporting for those who want the nitty-gritty. Every report can be customized to show exactly what you want to know without hiding behind false statistics or confusing talking points.
Total Visibility
The duplicity of the SEO industry is widely known. So how is WebLoudly different? We provide a revolutionary level of transparency into our campaigns – from backlink acquisition to on page optimization – so you can trust us to get the job done.
ROI Obsessed
By setting a data-centric foundation for each campaign, we can granularly track organic traffic revenue attribution through the WebLoudlyAnalytics® platform. Never guess again is SEO is generating a net-positive return – your team and your investors will love the financial insight.
The smart choice for smart SEO
Just say no to shady SEO
WebLoudly’ team of SEO experts are on-the-ground working with each customer to ensure their SEO success. We base our SEO campaigns on verifiable, results-driven thematic keywords so you outrank the competition and feel confident in partnering with WebLoudly.
Our Battle SEO Audit® Process
Exhaustive and comprehensive…just the way it should be.
SEO Audits Explained
A full website SEO audit is a focused practice that includes the use of various SEO audit tools, checklists, and standards to examine a website and its optimization campaign. An SEO site audit can also be used to create lists of weak points and action items that can help overcome the observed weaknesses on the website. In addition to that, an on page audit is often used to gather specific information and details needed for a company to make adjustments to their SEO campaign and get better results.
What is Covered in the SEO Audit
Before we continue, you need to understand that there are actually two different ways to go about an SEO website audit. Both ways have their own advantages and disadvantages and they can be used for their specific purposes.
First, there’s the fast auditing for search engines, which is generally a 10 to 15-minute process for an experienced auditor, and maybe a little bit longer for those who are fairly new to the auditing process. A fast audit generally uses free online tools that look over the very basics: domain and page authority, tags, XML maps, meta & alt descriptions, organic traffic, signs of penalties, and other important but basic surface level considerations when it comes to optimization. It’s important to mention that most digital marketing agencies only sell this type of site audit services, which means that you need to be extra careful when you’re choosing the company that will audit your onpage SEO.
Identifying Goals
Before you dive into audit SEO parameters, you should always take time to make sure you understand what your main goals and targets are. You need to understand that SEO is a means to an end, not the end itself.
Are you looking to increase organic traffic by 50%? Improve rankings around a small, but crucial list of keywords? Recover from previous Google penalties? Or do you want to outsmart and outrank certain competitors?
While it’s easy to just say “I want to rank better” or “get more traffic,” these statements don’t represent clear goals and they don’t provide you with a clear direction. You need a more precise view of what your main goals are, because it’s your goals that will provide you with the perspective necessary to examine the data that comes out of a good, in-depth SEO audit. You can be given the best SEO audit service in the world, but if you don’t have a clear goal in front of you, you’re only wasting your time. As we mentioned earlier, search engine optimization is only a means that will hopefully get you closer to your intended goals.
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Organic traffic growth
Increasing traffic to a website is a tough egg to crack. Deciphering how to magically attract internet users to your website is tricky, but it’s necessary when the top driver of traffic on the internet is through search. A website needs to be search engine optimized while providing rich, informative content that your business’ ideal demographic will find useful.
Optimizing your website through on-page and off-page SEO practices help grow organic traffic by implementing specific attributes on your website that search engine crawlers would deem worthy of authority, which in turn move you higher up on search engine result pages.
The more search engines crawl your site and find useful content, correct backlinking, proper keyword usage and the like, the better a site ranks on search engines, which drives more traffic towards your site.
Integrating SEO strategies to grow organic traffic provides better long-term results than PPC traffic while being more cost-effective and more valuable to your website’s ranking and growth.
Click through rate (CTR)
A click through rate refers to how often people click on a call-to-action (CTA), email, or ad on your website. This metric gauges how well your keywords and CTA’s are performing. Seeing CTR’s for each keyword and ad on your website can help adjust those that aren’t performing. CTR’s help to determine whether the organic traffic generated by an SEO campaign is qualified traffic and if the leads generated can be classified as a marketing qualified lead. Tracking organic traffic throughout the marketing funnel helps to facilitate the appropriate stage of when to pursue qualified leads.
Goal/Ecommerce tracking
Depending on the size of business, goal tracking and ecommerce tracking help to communicate the effectiveness of an SEO campaign. All WebLoudly SEO campaigns utilize goal and ecommerce tracking to show how effective the SEO is. Tracking these metrics conveys the process of increased traffic turning into increased leads and increased leads turning into an increase in revenue.
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What’s included in our Battle Audit®
Keyword Analysis
Keyword Analysis
This is where tools like Google’s Webmaster Tools and Pro Rank Tracker come in handy. When you’re looking at the keywords there are a few main places to focus:
- What keywords are generating most of your traffic (current wins)
- What keywords are you aiming for but failing at, and can you realistically rank for them?
- What keywords can you find that could act as “easy victories” to boost traffic right now?
Most keywords should be able to break down into one of these categories. Often times when you find the keywords that are generating most of your traffic you’ll not only see ones you were aiming for but others that maybe were completely unexpected or are bringing in traffic because of a single blog post that wasn’t heavily marketed. These are keywords you want to push to get more traffic.
Competitive Analysis
Competitive Analysis
Between Moz and Ahrefs tools you will be able to see what keywords your competition is ranking for, who they are getting links from, and how they are beating you. Analyzing those you’re competing with is crucial. This can help you see what keywords are realistically out of reach, what keywords your competitors are feasting on (and these could easily be attainable ones that you missed), and who you might be able to get links from, helping you get past your competition.
This analyzing the competition should affect every single decision you make moving forward with your campaigns because this information is absolute gold.
Technical Analysis
Technical Analysis
Technical analysis is extremely important because the user experience of a website makes a major difference when it comes to SEO. Is your website mobile friendly? Is the SSL correctly installed? Are there missing pages or re-direct issues? These just scratch the surface of technical based questions that are really important.
Test your website’s loading speed (it should be under 2 seconds), check to see that Google is getting your site’s XML Sitemap and watch out for duplicate content (this includes meta tags!). Technical issues might seem small in comparison to the books being written on on-site and off-site SEO, but it is a part of the program that you do not want to screw up!
Page Level Analysis
Page Level Analysis
This analysis is all about making sure everything is properly optimized. Great content is important, but it still needs to be optimized the right way to be effective for SEO. This means the keyword being in the title, in the meta description, in the first few sentences, and in the last sentence.
In addition to this, the URL needs to be clean and optimized, and the photos must have alt tags. Finally, take advantage of internal linking but make sure it is done properly (see the linking section for more on this).
Content Quality Analysis
Content Quality Analysis
First cover the basics: your content should be original, written at a native level of proficiency, and be useful & informative. Figuring out what makes content quality can be difficult, and if you’re not a professional writer or editor, consider hiring one for an honest audit. Judging your own writing can be extremely difficult, and this is why in the publishing world writers have editors at every level. While this can seem like an excessive expense, it is a great way to make sure that some fresh eyes check out the content, compare it to the competition’s, and can give you an honest answer on whether it is really high quality or if it doesn’t hold up as much as you think it does.
On top of this nebulous idea of quality, the posts should be easy to read, entertaining in style, and longer is better. These should all be parts of your content analysis.
User Experience Analysis
User Experience Analysis
You need to rely on Google Analytics to know this for sure. Two main stats you want to look at bounce rate and average time on site. Bounce rate refers to the percentage of people who leave the website after visiting just one page. Ideally, you want this to be lower, though it doesn’t have to be overly low – if you’re at 98% then that’s a problem.
Average time on site is a big one. This is exactly what it sounds like, and more engaged visitors are obviously going to stay longer. This is seen as a particularly important stat for SEO and is an obvious way to measure the experience that users are having with your website. The better the experience, the better your overall situation when it comes to SEO.
Full Link Profile Analysis
Full Link Profile Analysis
There’s no question that links are one of the most important factors when it comes to search engine optimization. The tools you use should look at backlink type, the number of links, their relevance to your website’s niche, keyword anchors used, and more. Backlinks from other websites are important, but there is no denying that some are much more important than others.
Some main points you want to look at:
- How many backlinks come from relevant websites in similar niches?
- How many authority websites link to your website?
- What is the % breakdown of keyword anchors? (You generally want 80% URL or brand/website name, 10% keywords, and 10% other)
- Diversity of link types
- Trust flow
Note on internal links: This is the one time when all links should be direct anchor keywords. Don’t get fancy, don’t mix it up. If you’re linking internally to a post about Keyword A, an internal link from another post should be labeled Keyword A.
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WebLoudly is an SEO agency that leverages a wealth of performance data and market research to create scientifically-driven SEO strategies. Our proprietary methodology combines the best of technology and people to deliver business-impacting results with breakneck speed. We’re driven by a passion to deliver great work and help great companies.
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