A Basic (Yet Powerful) Technical SEO Audit for Beginners

Are you fixing your website’s technical SEO issues? This tutorial shows you how to perform a basic SEO audit with one free tool: Google.

Technical SEO often gets overlooked by “bigger” and “shinier” topics like keyword research and link building.

But ignoring technical SEO issues on your website can be the one factor that holds your website back from higher Google rankings.

While many professionals in the search engine optimization space use premium tools like Ahrefs Site Audit tool, Screaming Frog or Deep Crawl, you don’t need to use them when you’re first starting out.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Google and a few advanced search operators to identify issues that are worth fixing.

Best of all…it’s free.

Timestamps:

1:11 Choose between http/https and www/non-www versions and add redirects
3:37 Check your title tags for any incongruences
4:32 Find indexed pages that shouldn’t be indexed
6:02 Check for the privacy of your assets, employees, and clients
6:45 Use Ahrefs Site Audit for deeper analysis

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[FABCASTLE]

I'm overwhelmed with the technical issues I'm finding in unsuspected pages after this! Thank you soooo much!! Now THAT'S as spectacular inbound strategy, guys!!

[ScoreXcreen]

You are very clear in explaining SEO. Keeping your tool promotion, in the end, makes me super happy watching your video.

[paulargueta]

Thanks for sharing. Digital marketing & SEO work. Most people don't have the patience or take the time to learn it, let alone wait for the results. It's like planting seeds and farming.

[alexandrbelkot]

Hello Sam
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This is amazing
I just wanted to write and ask you about creating a technical SEO audit,
and then "Boom!" it is already there!
I am your fan!
Thank you Sam, I am waiting for further episodes. "A Basic (Yet Powerful) Technical SEO Audit for - Professionals"

[womom]

I learned a lot. I hope I can land a job in SEO soon. Thanks for your help Sam and Ahrefs.

[dirteeshoe]

SEO world is fun, everyday I read articles and do some researches to expand my knowledge, thanks for the informative video.

[ItsCoachBen]

Regular audits are key so much changes without people really even noticing!

[nisaac]

I've mentioned this before but this channel has such great content. I've been a user of SEMrush for a while now and I only wish they had good content like this. Which is so surprising because they are so big. They have a weird youtube channel, which I hardly ever watch. But this channel, I'm always watching and always wondering if I should or how I could move my clients over to Ahrefs. Excellent content as always!

[basselnasief]

Thnx Sam for the precious info. I enjoyed every moment of the video. You've been always to the point!

[maheshwaranr]

Thanks for value sharing. I need to learn more about how to fix all the technical seo issues

[roycalderon]

Question. If an agency is doing SEO for a website do they grant access to the agency for them to start making changes? For example, if your site is on Wix do you just give access or do they rebuild a new site with the same domain?

[eliedaccache]

By far the most helpful advertisement I've ever watched!!
Jk thanks a lot man

[thomasolson]

I'm trying to determine if an SEO agency we hired is worth keeping around. What are the best ways for us (as an ecommerce website) to make this decision?

[jelenauroic]

Do you have a tutorial about what pages you do not want to be indexed? Especially for e-commerce - I have been searching for example what to mark as noindex/nofollow but I can't find clear answers and explanation WHY. Would love you help on this topic! (I love your videos btw and they are super helpful)

[chukwuebukanwana]

Thank Sam Oh for sharing. This was really helpful

[toufikforu]

Wow! really very nice this tutorials for SEO...
Thanks Sam!

[angelagayehorn]

Do you have a tutorial on how to fix the http/https redirect issue please? :)

[protechlistsstarmerx]

Hi Sam

So when you find URLs which shouldn't be indexed (e.g. www versions and http versions) what do you do with them? 301 redirect?

[bankauctionpropertie]

Great idea! I will practice this hack. Thanks for sharing such a valuable information

[codesolutionsmsahils]

that's great work for people thanks. bro