In this segment, you will understand the meaning of an SEO audit. Let us learn about it from Sonesh in the following video.
You just learnt that SEO audit is basically benchmarking your web presence to industry best practices.
In the next video, you will understand when and why SEO audit is required.
As Sonesh explained, there are many reasons why SEO audit is required, for example:
Declining traffic:
Why would it happen? It might be due to lack of adherence to SEO best practices, which should be analysed by SEO audit.
Weaker conversions on your website:
Here, SEO audit could point out user experience challenges, navigation issues, content relevancy issues, etc., which need to be audited.
Competition gaining ranks on relevant keywords:
This should make you consider auditing your website, and comparing the results with competing websites and filling in the performance gaps.
Google Penalty (lack of good content or quality backlinks) or Google’s algorithm updates:
Here, SEO audit would help you take corrective On-Page and Off-Page optimisation actions.
In the next segment, you will learn about the skills needed to conduct SEO audit.