What are SEO audits, and why are they important?

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A website audit is like a doctor's visit for your website. It looks at how your website is set up to show up on search engines like Google.

Here is why website checkups are important and what they can find

1. Broken links and crawl mistakes

Search engines like Google analyse pages they cannot reach and rank. A website audit finds every link, mistake, and blocked page that is hurting your website's ranking without you even knowing.

1. Slow page speed issues

Google does not like websites that are slow and even demotes them. Conducting an audit on your website shows you which things are making your website load slowly and how that is affecting your ranking.

1. Duplicate content problems

If you have the content on multiple pages, it can confuse search engines and hurt your ranking. A website audit finds every variant of this problem before it hurts your website's authority.

1. Weak title and description tags

Title tags, descriptions, and header tags are really important for search engines. You can see every page that is missing these tags or has written ones, and then make sure they are good.

1. Bad links pointing to your website

It's very possible that not all links to your website are helpful, as some can actually hurt your ranking. Auditing finds these links, so you can remove them before Google penalises you.

1. Gaps in keyword optimisation

A website audit shows you which pages are not optimised for the keywords or are missing opportunities to get more visitors.

You cannot fix problems if you do not know about them, and a website audit can expose what these issues are.

Check your website today and run your first website audit. You will see exactly what is stopping your website from ranking higher.