Best in Class – Technical SEO Audit

Taking the guesswork out of SEO with our Technical SEO Audit Service

Are you looking to help your site climb the search engines?

Do you need SEO audit services to understand what’s missing?

Want to understand why some competitors are always above you on Google?

Do you want an evidence based action plan to improve your website visibility?

Then benefit from our skilled technical SEO services and drive your web pages to the top of the search engine rankings.

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What our customers are saying about our SEO audit service

Google Customer Reviews - 4.9/5 stars

“I chose to work with Maratopia because I was impressed by the knowledge of the team that visited our offices and the examples of work they’d carried out for other companies in our industry.
The planning workshops at the start of the project raised interesting questions, generated great ideas, and proved to be a solid foundation to build on.
We love the finished website and have been delighted with the increase in visitors and social interaction since it went live.
Additionally, developing an ongoing business relationship is important to me and it’s reassuring that I can rely on Maratopia to take care of any future updates to our website.“

– Fiona Lazenby , Managing Director at HotHouse Partnerships

Fine-Tune Your SEO Performance

While our SEO services will put your brand on a level playing field with your competitors, our technical SEO audits will put you in a league of your own.

Your website will fuel your online presence and website performance, so an audit is the first firm step towards identifying and remedying structural and content problems which are hindering its performance.

To formulate the best way forward, you need to know the exact state of play with your site’s performance and current SEO – and our 60-point Technical Audit will tell you everything you need to know.

Ready to work with our technical SEO team and get a free SEO audit?

What’s included in a technical SEO audit service?

DESCRIBED AS “BEST IN THE INDUSTRY” by Property Lisbon

OUR COMPREHENSIVE TECHNICAL SEO SERVICES WHICH GIVE YOU THE TOOLS TO HELP YOUR SITE CLIMB THE SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS PAGES.

Our evidence-based approach sees your site undergo a 60-point test which identifies all barriers to the top rankings and creates a strategy that gets you there – consider it your blueprint to search engine success.

Our Technical SEO specialists have aeons of experience in the industry, and they’ll make sure the following elements are considered in your audit:

Competitive Search Space

Find out how you and your competitors are ranking, and discover keyword opportunities in your search space with our technical SEO audit services.
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KEYWORD TRAFFIC ESTIMATES

Find your current keyword rankings, as well as estimated clicks for each top ten SERPs position, and cost-per-click for paid search terms.

02.

ORGANIC KEYWORD DIFFICULTY

Assess search volume, competition and click-through-rates (CTRs) for top keywords to establish prime targets.

03.

PPC COMPETITION

Find bid ranges for PPC marketing, as well as competition on keywords to establish where best to direct your efforts – PPC, SEO or both.

04.

COMPETITOR TRAFFIC COMPARISON
Identify what keywords are delivering traffic for your competitors, and identify long-term competitor trends and scale the competition, whether you’re up against big names or small businesses just like yours.

05.

KEYWORD TRAFFIC ESTIMATES
Get Website Traffic forecasts based on quantifiable increases in search position, and model what it could mean to your bottom line.

06.

KEYWORD DISTRIBUTION

Identify search terms outside of the top 10 keywords that can yield quick wins against competitors.

Get a short list of keyword opportunities from those that are bubbling high with search volume keywords to the terms that are not currently delivering for you.

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Keyword Trends
Review rising and falling trends in keywords over time, as well as associated ‘break-out’ terms.

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POTENTIAL ORGANIC TRAFFIC

Understand the organic keyword discovery of competitors, and potential traffic gains.

Google’s Core Web Vitals

Fast, responsive sites perform far better in Google’s search engine rankings. These tests assess critical success factors surrounding user experience.
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Site Speed

Find out how your site’s speed is performing on desktop and mobile devices, and how it compares to competitors.

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DOM size

Check the size of all html components on a page, as excessive size will create a slow load speed.

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CRITICAL PATH RENDERING AND NUMEROUS OTHER CORE WEB VITALS TESTS

Poor or slow conversion of website code into screen pixels can reduce page speed, leading to penalties from Google.

12.

Competitor Content Analysis

Google responds quickly to changes in content. So we’ll compare your content to the leading sites in your sector – how does yours stand up to best in class and what can be done about it?

Content Gap Analysis

Content plays a major role not only onsite, but in search rankings. Find out how your web content could be impacting your search rankings with our comprehensive SEO audit services.
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Keyword Density

Is your content keyword rich without spamming or keyword stuffing? Google and other search engines will penalise your site for these practices.

14.

Duplicate Content

Our audit will check for thin content, as well as duplicate content and technical issues that inadvertently create duplicate pages.

15.

Blog Analysis

Is your blog credible, updated frequently, well-designed? Are active share icons present? Does the blog contain broken links and do internal links go to the right pages?

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SEO Hygiene

Does your site stand up to basic SEO scrutiny, following best practices every step of the way? Discover just some of the many SEO hygiene tests we’ll perform on your website! It’s about doing the simple things well, and removing self inflicted barriers to the search engines.
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Meta tags
Meta tags are information excerpts that describe a web page to Google and search users – we’ll check your meta descriptions and page titles are following good SEO practices.

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Headings

Many sites ignore heading structures. However, structured data markup gives pages logical structures and enables search engine spiders to better understand them.

18.

Language Refs

Make sure your language refs tell Google what language and market your site is designed to target.

19.

Image sizes

Reporting of large, slow-loading images which impact user experience and overall site speed can also impact your ranking factors.

20.

Site Structure

Does the site have a logical structure that is easy for both search engine spiders and humans.

21.

Crawl Depth
Ensure all vital content is easy to find – the closer to the home page, the more valuable Google considers the content to be.

22.

Image Optimisation

Using alt tags helps describe your image to Google and will help your images – and pages – to be found in search engine results.

23.

Canonicalised content

Canonicalised content tells Google that similar content belongs with a mother page. This is essential to avoid facing Google penalties for duplicate content.

And that’s just for starters! Depending on what we find, there are as many as 30 additional tests that we can perform!

Competitor Backlink Profile

Internal linking isn’t the only linking to focus on. The backlink profile of a site will impact the authority of your website. Good quality backlinks act as an amplifier for your content and turbocharge your ranking positions.
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FOLLOW VS NOFOLLOW RATIO (inbound and outbound)

Tests to see if there is a natural balance to inbound links – too many follow links may look suspiciously like a link farm has been used.

25.

CITATION AUDIT

Citations are vital for local search engine optimisation and should be consistent in their description of the business and locations. Many good, free listings go unclaimed whilst others may be toxic.

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COMPARATIVE BACKLINK STRENGTH

This assesses the strength of your backlink profile vs that of your competitors, as well as the quality of your backlinks. Backlink strength directly influences the authority of your page and its rankings.

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COMPARATIVE TRUST FLOW and Domain Authority
This measures the relative quality of your backlinks, taking into account factors such as site traffic.

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CITATION FLOW

These assess low value links that could be damaging your profile, and may be a sign of sabotage by competitors.

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TOPICAL TRUST FLOW

Find out how authoritative and trustworthy your domain is in its topic or niche. Having links from more relevant sites on relevant subjects is naturally better.

30.

TOXIC BACKLINK PROFILE

This identifies potentially toxic backlinks that could be negatively impacting your search engine rankings.

31.

SITE WIDE BACKLINKS

Assess the potential fingerprint of backlinks and link farms. Too many links from a low value site can be toxic.

32.

BACKLINK GROWTH

Ensure the rate of your backlink growth is improving the quality of your SEO by generating link equity.

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RELATIVE STRENGTH OF .GOV AND .EDU LINKS

These types of links are considered good authorities by Google, and backlinks to these will impact positively on your rankings.

34.

Google Search Console
Let us look under the bonnet of your Google Search Console and we’ll test how Google is reporting your site and diagnose issues and fixes for you.

MORE?

You bet! We have earned certified SEMRush agency status! However, we are not tied just to SEM Rush, we use some 20 + tools to test and cross check results, following our experienced noses and the emerging evidence to uncover yet deeper underlying issues.

Comprehensive Reporting

At the end of the technical SEO audit process, we’ll produce a comprehensive report which spells out our technical recommendations in straightforward terms, and arrange a call or meeting to chat about our findings and agree an attack plan to get your site back on track.

Then, with the blueprint in place to bolster your technical performance, you’re ready for unparalleled results.

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Do I Really Need A Technical SEO Site Audit?

ABSOLUTELY!

The comprehensive technical SEO audit service from our experts will crawl every corner of your site, just as a search spider would, to identify the technical glitches that turn off visitors and stop you from grabbing great Google rankings – thus building a picture of your SEO performance so that you know what needs to be fixed.

Your site may be performing well, but there’s always room for improvement – Position One on the SERPs page receives more than thirty times the traffic of Position Ten, whilst your traffic can double with every two positions climbed across the SERPs. Page one is good, but you should aim for great – your SEO campaign should be targeting that number one spot to drive customers to your site and boost your sales. And a technical SEO audit will create a strategy that gets you there.

Competition for those vital Top 5 SERP spots is now hotter than ever, so your audit will identify exactly why your website traffic or conversions have dropped; transforming problems into opportunities that propel you back up the rankings and drive sales.

Download a sample report to see what you’ll get with our technical SEO audit service

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Technical SEO FAQs

How can a technical SEO audit service benefit my business?

Technical SEO services will give you a clear evidenced plan as to where you need to make improvements to boost your website’s performance.

Tools such as Google Search Console can help you to monitor your site’s performance, but being able to diagnose and implement those necessary changes will boost your organic search performance.

Not only will working with technical SEO consultants give you a deeper insight into your areas of improvement, but our SEO professionals can help you take the next step in improving your online visibility and develop an SEO strategy that works.

What does a technical SEO agency do?

Technical SEO specialists carry out forensic SEO audits, benchmarking against competitors to deliver a forensically based strategic SEO plan for your business, to remove SEO barriers and replace your competitors at the top.

Can you also implement your SEO Recommendations?

Of course! Our technical SEO specialists can execute every aspect of the plan or work with your team to complement your own inhouse skill sets. There’s no cookie cutter plan, because all websites, all clients and all client teams are different and require bespoke SEO support.

Get expert website SEO audit services today and boost your website performance.