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Technical SEO Auditing: How Healthy is Your Site?
William Nye. Senior Technical Consultant. [email protected] williamjnye
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Today we’re going to review an affiliate site from an organic search perspective.
1. Historic performance
2. SEO issues
3. Recommendations
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How Do We Identify SEO Issues?
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playslotscasinos.com
Domain Info:• Domain registered on
14/11/2013
• First crawled by web.archive.org: 10/3/2014
• 343 indexed search results
• Static HTML build
• Responsive
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Historic Performance
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Historic Performance
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Is It Still Ranking?
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Ranking in the top 10 for 408 terms monitored by SEMrush. Ranking in the top 30 for 14219.
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Desktop Organic Rankings (US) – Po-sitions 1-30
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Current Rankings
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Total opportunity only around 3k p/m for ranking keywords – but this doesn’t include long tail.
Search Opportunity
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Organic Search Opportunity (US) – Po-sitions 1-30
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Top SEO Issues
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Link Profile
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Large quantity of linking domains discovered October 2014 - Jan 2015; big increase in visibility.
Link Growth Overtime
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Referring Domains for playslotscasinos.com
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Link Attrition
Only 11% of the links recorded are still alive. Low quality usually results in high attrition.
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Low quality linking root domains with low topical relevancy and commercial anchor texts.
Link Quality
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Link Quality
Unsurprisingly most linking root domains are < 10 Trust Flow (data from Majestic).
1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-800
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Trust Flow Per Domain
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Link Profile Recommendations• Quality: Site needs better links to rank effectively, over the long term
• Anchor Text: Commercial anchor text usage should be minimal
• Topical Relevancy: More relevant links needed
Next steps: Full link profile should be reviewed and the worst links disavowed
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Site Quality
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Quality Updates
Panda 4.2Phantom 3 Core
Update
Later decreases correlate highly with updates aimed at content quality and user intent.
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Emphasis on E-A-T – expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness
Google Quality Rater Guidelines
Source: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//insidesearch/howsearchworks/assets/searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf
Signs of Lowest Quality Pages:• Pages or websites that are created to make money with little to
no attempt to help users• Pages or websites created with no expertise or pages which are
highly untrustworthy, unreliable, unauthoritative, inaccurate or misleading
• Violations of the Google Webmaster Quality Guidelines.
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Site Design
Low quality templated design doesn’t inspire trust. This leads to bad user engagement.
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Unique textual content but it’s very low in quality. Updates like Phantom have been punishing sites were textual content doesn’t match user intent.
Quality of Textual Content
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Quality Recommendations• Textual Content: Rewrite copy, only including text that matches the
intent of the page. Emphasis on quality of content produced
• Design: Improve the design for both mobile and desktop users with an emphasis on trustworthiness and usability
• E-A-T: Continued focus around E-A-T throughout the site
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Why Should I Care?
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Because the opportunities are rapidly diminishing
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The Elephant Penguin in the Room
• 85 weeks since the last refresh on 18/10/2014
• Next update is supposedly “real time”
• Apparently it’s coming soon
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What Should Affiliates Do?
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Focus on producing websites that provide real value
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The Best Affiliate Sites Already Do This
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Try and find a point of difference – whether it’s the quality of the site, exclusivity in what you offer or another USP.
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Final ThoughtsWhatever Google does, someone, somewhere, will always find a way to beat the system.
But using these tactics will always be higher risk.
Affiliates need to pick the right model for their business.
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Thank You
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William Nye. Senior Technical Consultant. [email protected] williamjnye