Free SEO Audit Tool

The free SEO Audit tool is a snapshot into your page’s SEO efficacy. Within minutes, it generates key information for you to help make your site better. Some of the few things it measures include:

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SEO Friendly Tests
Google Pagespeed
HTML Tags
Content Quality
Text Statistics

These are the basic metrics that will help you understand how well your site is performing and what areas in particular that you need to target.

A technical SEO audit checklist typically includes the following items:

1. XML Sitemap: Check if an XML sitemap is present and if it's updated regularly.
2. Robots.txt file: Verify the presence and correctness of the robots.txt file.
3. Canonicalization: Check if the website has implemented rel=canonical tags to avoid duplicate content issues.
4. HTTP status codes: Verify that the website returns appropriate HTTP status codes for all pages.
5. Redirection: Check if the website has implemented proper redirects (301 redirects for permanent redirects and 302 redirects for temporary redirects) for any moved or deleted pages.
6. URL structure: Verify that the website has a logical and consistent URL structure.
7. Pagination: Check if the website has implemented pagination correctly to avoid duplicate content issues.
8. Web page size: Check the size of web pages and images to ensure they load quickly.
9. Mobile-friendliness: Verify that the website is mobile-friendly and has a responsive design.
10. Site speed: Check the website's load time and identify any issues that could be causing slow load times.
11. HTML validation: Verify that the website's HTML code is valid.
12. Analytics and tracking: Verify that the website has analytics and tracking code implemented correctly.
13. Structured data: Check if the website has implemented structured data (e.g. schema markup) to improve search engine visibility.

This checklist is not exhaustive, but it covers most of the important technical SEO considerations. It's important to note that SEO audit is a continuous process and you should regularly update your audit checklist.

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There are many SEO audit tools available, each with their own set of pros and cons. Some popular options include:

1. Ahrefs: This tool offers a comprehensive analysis of a website's backlinks, keywords, and content. Pros include a large data set and accurate information.
   Cons include the cost, which can be high for some users.
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2. SEMrush: This tool offers a wide range of features including keyword research, competitor analysis, and site audit.
   Pros include the depth of information and the ability to track a large number of keywords.
   Cons include the cost, which can be high for some users.
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3. Moz Pro: This tool offers a range of features, including link analysis, keyword research, and site crawl.
   Pros include a user-friendly interface and a large data set.
   Cons include the cost, which can be high for some users.
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4. Google Analytics: This is a free tool offered by Google that allows you to track website traffic, user behavior, and other metrics.
   Pros include it's a free tool and it's provided by Google.
   Cons include it's not as robust as paid options and it may not provide as much data as some paid tools.
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5. Google Search Console: This is a free tool offered by Google that allows you to see how your website is performing in search results. Pros include it's a free tool and it's provided by Google. Cons include it's not as robust as paid options and it may not provide as much data as some paid tools.
6. Screaming Frog: This tool is a website crawler that can be used to analyze a website's structure, performance, and SEO issues. Pros include the ability to analyze large sites and the ability to export data. Cons include the cost, which can be high for some users.

Ultimately, the best SEO audit tool for you will depend on your specific needs and budget.

An SEO audit is a process of analyzing a website's performance and identifying areas for improvement to increase its visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs). The audit examines various factors such as on-page optimization, technical SEO, backlinks, and user experience, among others.

An example of an SEO audit output in a table view might include the following information:

This table view format allows you to quickly see which areas of your website are performing well and which areas need improvement. The audit report may also include specific actions that you can take to improve your site's performance and increase its visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs).

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What does it mean for a site to be SEO friendly? It goes beyond just posting quality content (though that’s a very important part!). There are all kinds of ways, big and small that can prevent your site from being seen by search engines and, thus by users. Our free audit tool begins by looking at some of the most important facets of your website you might not even be aware of.

Have you ever received a warning from Google Chrome to not visit a page? It will block the page and prevent you from going there because of some security issue. We begin by ensuring your website passes a SSL Certificate Validity Check. This a whole range of security protocols that should be within your website’s coding or built-in to the domain. It shows the world that your site is trustworthy!

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How quickly your website loads is another key metric for SEO. It is important to remember that high search engine rankings isn’t just a bunch of tricks. Pages that rank highly are those that provide quality content on a platform that loads quickly, is both interconnected and connected to other websites and is overall user friendly.

The higher the usability index of your site the higher your page will rank. There are many things you can do to improve this such as shortening URL tags, linking to social media and having an indexed sitemap.

It is very common for many websites these days to more or less copy each other. Even if you do not do this, many sites have pages with a lot of overlapping content. Google essentially has what people call a “duplicate content” penalty. It’s not quite as severe as some people rumor it, but what it does is lower the rankings of sites that do this.

Our tool helps you see where you may be suffering from duplicate content as well as where you have unique content. This can help you to reconfigure these pages so that they do not get hit by the duplicate content penalty.