A boring check that keeps paying off: open your top 20 landing pages in a logged-out browser.
Not Screaming Frog, not a staging URL. A plain browser, no cookies, on a phone.
Every time I do this for a new client I find at least one of these: a consent banner covering the content, a redirect chain, a page that only renders after login, or an interstitial the client swore they'd removed months ago.
#SEO #SiteAudit
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A sitemap is a list of pages you want indexed, not a list of every URL you have.
If yours includes redirects, 404s, noindexed pages or parameter URLs, search engines learn that the file is unreliable. A quick check: crawl the sitemap URLs and count how many return a 200, are self-canonical and indexable.
What percentage did you get the last time you checked?
#TechnicalSEO
If yours includes redirects, 404s, noindexed pages or parameter URLs, search engines learn that the file is unreliable. A quick check: crawl the sitemap URLs and count how many return a 200, are self-canonical and indexable.
What percentage did you get the last time you checked?
#TechnicalSEO
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What's the first thing you check when a client says "our traffic dropped"?
Mine, in order:
1. Search Console → Pages → is anything newly excluded?
2. Did the drop line up with a core update, or with a deploy?
3. Is it one page type, one country, or everything?
4. Only then do I open the crawler.
Curious what order other people use, and what you'd add.
#TechnicalSEO
Mine, in order:
1. Search Console → Pages → is anything newly excluded?
2. Did the drop line up with a core update, or with a deploy?
3. Is it one page type, one country, or everything?
4. Only then do I open the crawler.
Curious what order other people use, and what you'd add.
#TechnicalSEO
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Welcome to SEOgenz 👋
This is a network for people who actually do SEO: consultants, agencies, in-house marketers, content folks and tool makers.
Three things it is not: a link marketplace, a place to buy guest posts, or a feed of "10 SEO hacks" threads. Links shared here are marked nofollow, and listings are reviewed before they go live.
If you're early here, introduce yourself below: what you work on, and one SEO thing that's been bothering you lately. I'll answer every one.
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This is a network for people who actually do SEO: consultants, agencies, in-house marketers, content folks and tool makers.
Three things it is not: a link marketplace, a place to buy guest posts, or a feed of "10 SEO hacks" threads. Links shared here are marked nofollow, and listings are reviewed before they go live.
If you're early here, introduce yourself below: what you work on, and one SEO thing that's been bothering you lately. I'll answer every one.
#SEOgenz #SEO