• About
    • History of Dallas SEO
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Bing
    • Blogging
    • Branding
    • Domain Names
    • Google
    • Internet Marketing
    • Link Building
    • Local Search
    • Marketing
    • Public Relations
    • Reputation Management
    • Search Engine Marketing
    • Search Engine Optimization
    • Search Engines
    • Social Media
  • Advertise

Bill Hartzer - Search, Marketing, Tech, and Domain Name News

Bill Hartzer on Search, Marketing, Tech, and Domains.

names

Home Search Engine Optimization Technical SEO and SEO Audits – Engage 2017 Portland Presentation

Technical SEO and SEO Audits – Engage 2017 Portland Presentation

March 13, 2017 By Bill Hartzer

At the Engage 2017 Portland conference on March 9th, 2017, I had the pleasure of presenting a technical SEO session with Jon Henshaw from Raven Internet Marketing Tools titled “Improving SEO and User Experience – The Technical Side”. My presentation is embedded below, along with transcribed notes, courtesy of Slideshare.

Technical SEO and SEO Audits – Engage 2017 Portland – Bill Hartzer from Bill Hartzer

1. Improving SEO and User Experience
The Technical SEO Side: Improving SEO and User Experience

2. About Me
— Senior SEO Consultant, BillHartzer.com
— Founder, DFWSEM Association (2004)
— US Brand Ambassador, Majestic.com
— Practicing Organic/Natural SEO since 1996
— Formerly Senior VP, Advice Interactive (Advice Local)
— Senior SEO Strategist, Globe Runner
— Director of SEO, Standing Dog

3. Overview
— Before You Begin
— Gather Data
— Analyze
— Present Results

4. Before You Begin – Info to Gather
— Access to site (if possible), log file data
— Google Analytics, Search Console access
— Bing Webmaster Tools access
— Prior history: What SEO was done in past?
— Prior history: Domain Names used
— List of Domain Names owned, redirected
— List of Competitors
— Ask: anything else we need to know?

5. Content – Optimize Content on Site
— Google Search Console – Search Analytics
— SEMrush.com Keyword Research
— Current Rankings

6. GSC Search Analytics Pages Trick

7. Featured Snippets Keyword Research
— http://seorave.com/find-featured-snippet-opportunities/

8. Current rankings, Focus on Pages Ranking 5th to 20th

9. Gathering Phase
— Gather the Data
— Save the Data (MS Excel, MS Word)
— Start making notes (Notepad)

10. Google Searches
— site:domain.com
— site:domain.com –site:www.domain.com
— Click last page of SERPs to get page count

11. Screaming Frog Adjust memory to crawl large site over 100k pages

12. Integrity (aka Scrutiny) What it does:
— Crawls site, reports redirects, 404 errors
— Mac only, finds more errors

13. Siteliner.com

14. Bing Webmaster Tools

15. Bing Webmaster Tools
— Spot issues to fix

16. Google Search Console

17. Google Search Console

18. SEMRush Site Audit

19. Website Log Files
— Weblog Storming, AwStats

20. Website Log Files, Crawl & Analytics
— OnCrawl combines all three

21. Audit Site Structure
— Internal Link Structure
— Manual Review of Site
— URL Hierarchy
— Grouping of Topics
— GA: In-Page Analytics

22. Gather Off-Site Data
— It’s not all about on-site and on-page.

23. Google Search Console Links

24. Ahrefs Links

25. Majestic.com Links

26. Majestic.com Topic Review

27. Majestic Trust Flow, Citation Flow
— Trust Flow = Number of clicks from a seed set of trusted sites to a given URL, or Domain
— Citation Flow = Number of citations to a given URL, or Domain

28. Majestic Anchor Text Review

29. URIValet.com
— Check Server Headers

30. WebPageTest.org
— Page Performance

31. Miscellaneous Data to Review
— All sorts of extras

32. Site Speed, DNS Health
— Tools.Pingdom.com

33. Site Speed Review – Google Analytics

34. Robots.txt Issues
— Default CMS file?
— Disallowing wrong?
— Using “allow”?
— Not specifying sitemap.xml URL
— Directives conflict with other signals

35. Sitemap Issues
— Google Search Console sitemaps
— New pages not updated on sitemap
— Issues with multiple sitemaps
— No sitemap file?

36. Subdomain Issues
— Duplicate content?
— Using subdomain rather than directory
— Wildcard subdomains turned on?
— www versus non-www issues

37. Canonical Issues
— Review canonical tags
— Not using canonical correctly
— Conflicting signals with canonical, others
— Canonical tags to help with dupe content

38. Use of Structured Data
— Taking advantage of Schema.org
— Not just for local addresses
— Reviews and Events
— Person, Place, Organization
— Products and Offers

39. Local Listings – Audit the listings
— Google My Business
— Bing Places for Business
— Yahoo! Local

40. Local Citations – Separate Audit
— Are citations correct?
— Same address, suite #, phone number?

41. Analysis Phase
— Analyze the Data
— Make Assumptions & Recommendations
— You’re Fat!
— You need to exercise!
— OK, well maybe not like that…

42. Analysis Phase
— Analyze gathered data
— Look for Obvious Issues
— Look for Odd Data Points
— More notes!

43. Analyze Google Analytics
— Changes over time, year over year data
— Conversion Data
— Bounce Rates
— Pages Per Session
— Drops in Traffic: Panda or Penguin in past few years?

44. Panda or Penguin Issues From Past?
— Verify with SEMRush, Google Analytics
— Moz Google Algorithm Change History moz.com/google-algorithm-change
— Panguin Tool barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/

45. Analyze Keyword Data, Rankings
— Look for keyword opportunities Anything ranking on 2nd page?
— Review SEMRush Keyword Data
— Review GSC Search Analytics

46. Analyze On-Site Data
— Title Tags
— Meta Descriptions
— Headings H1, H2, etc.
— Internal Anchor Text
— External Links (outgoing links)
— Google Pages Indexed vs. Crawled

47. Analyze On-Site Data
— Conflicting signals? Overall Topic focus
— Conflicting signals? Robots.txt vs. Canonical vs. Meta Robots vs. Nofollow
— Internal Duplicate Content
— Not Enough Unique Content
— Internal links within content present?
— Review Navigation
— Review Footer, footer links, copyright

48. Analyze Off-Site Data
— Link Velocity Matters (getting new links)
— Review anchor text (over optimized?)
— Diversity of anchor text
— Look for Toxic, Low Quality Links
— Run Link Risk, Link Detox report

49. Presentation Phase
— Present the Data
— Show the Results
— Make it look great!
— Action Plan
— Implementation Plan

50. Present The Results
— Use internal or formal doc needed?
— Who will implement?
— Implement changes in-house? Outsource?
— MS Word doc,
spreadsheets with data
— PowerPoint needed for presentation?

51. Present The Results – Document
— Cover Page
— Table of Contents
— Overview (summary, positives, negatives)
— Website Crawlability (404s, 301s, One Page issues)
— Content Optimization (site arch., keyword issues)
— Linking (Internal links, externals links, link profile)
— Overall Recommendations

52. Finally – Additional Lists
— List of Priority Issues
— Present Action Plan for Implementing

53. SEO Audit Toolset
— Google Page Speed Test
— Mobile Friendly Test
— Google Search Console – time downloading a page (if slower than 2 seconds to get the code, they’ll abandon the crawl)
— Webpagetest.org (diversity of testing environments is helpful… browser types, locations, connection speeds)

54. SEO Audit Toolset
— WebPageTest
— Google Search Console
— Google Analytics
— GPSi page speed insights
— G Structured Data Test
— GSC Disavow
— GSC Fetch & Render
— Marie Haynes’ Disavow Blacklist

55. SEO Audit Toolset
— Google Mobile Test
— Google AMP Test
— Bing Mobile Test
— W3c mobileOK Checker
— Deep Crawl
— Google AW Keyword Planner
— Moz Keyword Explorer
— What is my IP

56. SEO Audit Toolset
— Builtwith
— Server Software Detection
— SEO Server Header Checker Tool
— SSL Server Test powered by Qualsys SSL Labs
— Redirect Checker
— Serpstat
— semrush
— GA Code Checker

57. SEO Audit Toolset
— W3c CSS Validator
— W3c Markup Validator
— hreflang testing tool
— tracker map
— OSE, Majestic, A hrefs, Link Research Tools
— Bing Webmaster Tools
— Kerboo
— Panguin tool
— OnCrawl

  • Total: 20
  • Share20
  • Share0
  • Pin0
  • Tweet0
  • +10

Related posts:

  1. 18 Speakers to See at Engage 2017 Portland
  2. 8 Reasons You Should Perform a Regular Full SEO Audit of Your Website
  3. On-Page and Off-Page SEO at Rocks Digital 2017
  4. Google Search Console Shows No Indexed Pages for Website

Filed Under: Search Engine Optimization

You May Like: Bill Hartzer’s Recent Posts

  • 3 Google Negative SEO Exploits, Website Owners Have No Recourse April 26, 2018
  • New Undetectable Type of Negative SEO Attack Uncovered April 19, 2018
  • Inbound.org Is Shutting Down April 18, 2018
  • Did Google and Bing Predict the Southwest Airlines Emergency Landing? April 17, 2018
  • Facebook Allows Really Long Posts That Fill Up a User’s Feed April 13, 2018
  • 46 Speakers to See at Pubcon Florida 2018 April 8, 2018
  • Google Testing Indexing of Google My Business Posts April 5, 2018
  • Don’t Believe All of the SEO Advice You Read on the Internet April 4, 2018
  • Facebook Responds to Fake News with Fact Checker Posts April 2, 2018
  • Google Launches Recrawl Now Feature in Google Search Console March 31, 2018
  • Google Shutting Down Goo.gl Short URLs March 31, 2018
  • 47 TakeAways from Google’s John Mueller’s AMA on Reddit March 28, 2018
  • Sponsored: Rock Your Work Day with Magnolia’s March AudioFest at BestBuy March 27, 2018
  • Facebook Pauses Addition of New Facebook Messenger Bots March 27, 2018
  • FTC Releases Statement About Facebook Privacy #DeleteFacebook March 26, 2018
  • Mobile First Indexing Officially Rolling Out: What You Need to Know March 26, 2018
  • Glitch in Google Site Search Operator March 21, 2018
  • Should Car Dealerships Use a Geo .CARS Domain Name? March 21, 2018
  • eBay Voluntarily Removing Guide Content from Site March 20, 2018
  • 27 Speakers to See at SMX West 2018 March 12, 2018

DFWSEM logo

Jim & I are the original Founders of the Dallas/Ft Worth Search Engine Marketing Association.

Bill Hartzer is a Brand Ambassador for:



Bill Hartzer’s Industry Friends

WTFSEO
SEO By the Sea
WordPress Website Management

Hartzer Consulting Website and SEO by Hartzer Consulting.

Connect With Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer on Twitter

Bill Hartzer on Google Plus

Bill Hartzer on Facebook

Copyright Bill Hartzer 2001 to 2018.

Disclaimer – Privacy Policy – Terms of Use

.