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Why You Should Check Website Health Before Investing More in SEO
It would be tempting to think that a lack of content or backlinks is behind poor website performance. But very often, the flaw is right at home. Look under the hood first before sinking more cash into advertising or SEO and see if your technical health is actually up to date.
Even if your website content is top notch, you could be in trouble if a key page is not accessible to search crawlers, there are many broken links to other pages, mobile visitors have a bad experience or pages are slow to load. Some of this you don’t realise is an issue when browsing your own website.
I treat a website health check as a bit like a general MOT – you just want to make sure the foundations are strong before adding too much to them. Things I would focus on are; indexing, broken links, redirects, page speed, mobile responsiveness, meta data, sitemap setup, security and usability.
You may also want to check the website as a customer. Would a potential customer know instantaneously what the business does? Is finding your way around easy?
Is your checkout process logical?
Technical health and UX go hand in hand.
Don’t check website health as a one off thing either. Websites are in a state of constant flux. New pages are created, plugins get updated, URLs are moved, content is deleted. Smaller issues can build up unnoticed.
A thorough review allows business owners to identify these issues before they get out of hand. But more than that it allows them to get a better picture of where they can begin building from for their SEO efforts in the future.
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