Goals of the Website Audit?
Every search engine optimization program begins with a site audit. However, a site
audit consists of much more than that of the actual site. It begins with clients’
expressed goals for their company. What are they hoping to achieve from search
engine optimization? Is the goal to drive sales, build brand visibility, or to get
a site ranking in a variety of areas on the web while the final decisions regarding
the aforementioned categories are being made? Evaluation:
A site evaluation takes all of the elements of the site into account. You see, your
optimization isn’t just about aspects of your content and how your site is put
together, but rather the overall picture, which takes into account everything after
the site ranks well, and, most importantly, the first three seconds of impact when
a visitor sees your site for the first time.
SEO 101
If you have come to our site in search of search engine optimization then you probably
have a good idea of what SEO 101 constitutes, but let’s run over a few of the basics.
First, there it involves the appropriate labeling of pages, which companies still don’t
do correctly today. Then there’s the assessment to see if there is even real HTML text
available on the page. And beyond that we have to make sure that certain individuals
haven’t taken the liberty of trying some illegal techniques out that their “SEO-knowledgeable
friends” have talked them into. Really guys, putting invisible text on the page is so 2002
and stands to get you banned from search engines. And no matter how cool the idea of using
the CSS display none attribute sounds, it isn’t!
Your SEO Technically
Of course we need to get down to the nitty gritty. We need to see your website as the
search engine spiders (small programs that crawl the web, reading and indexing websites
for the search engines) see it. If a spider can’t see your precious content then how are
they to know how to properly rank your site? After we check out your actual website we
then check out the popularity of your website in the eyes of your peers on the web.
Are you are thought leader? Do your peers link to you? This type of linking is one of
the fundamental requirements for Google to consider you rank worthy? There are over 200
aspects of Google’s algorithm that your site needs to be made perfect for and we are here
to help you get there!