TECHNICAL SEO AUDIT
What is Technical SEO
Checklist of Technical SEO
- Register your website in Google search Consol
- Create XML Sitemap
- Fix Duplicate Content
- Speed up your website
- Use SSL
- The website should be Mobile-friendly
Submitting Site In Webmaster Tool:
- If you own a domain, you will paste the URL in the URL Prefix box and click on the continue button.
- While if you have subdomains you will paste the subdomain URL into the Domain box on the left side and hit the continue button.
- A code will be provided to you.
- That code you have to paste on the Header section of your website before closing the Header tag.
- I.e between the opening ( <header) and closing (</header>) tags.
2. Creating XML Site Map:
- https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
- https://www.mysitemapgenerator.com/
- https://xmlsitemapgenerator.org/sitemap-generator.aspx
- You have to go above-mentioned websites and past your website URL in the search bar after opening a website among them.
- Your website site map will be generated automatically.
- Afterward, copy this sitemap and paste it into Google Search Consol or webmaster tool in the sitemap category. Technical SEO audit regarding sitemap is now clear.
3. Fix Duplicate Content:
- Install the Yoast SEO plugin and go to settings in Yoast SEO,
- Click on Search Appearance
- A new page will open before you. Here on this page click on Taxonomy, and click on categories.
- Here disable the search results of categories.
- Below the categories, there will be tags options
- Disable it as well.
4.Speed Optimization:
- Always use JPG images
- Do not use large size images
- Before uploading the images compress them as much as you can so that image quality should not break
- Do not use an unnecessary WordPress plugin
- Remove the unnecessary Javascript and CSS from your site.
- Your Third-party requests count should be lower.
- Always use fast domain name server DSN
5.Use of SSL Certificate in Technical SEO Audit
- Paste the URL of a website in the search bar and click for search
- If the SSL is applied to a particular website, there will be a sign of LOCK left side in the search bar. which is an SSL certificate.
- Without applying SSL certificate it will be difficult to rank your site in search engines. Because all search Engines prefer SSL holding website. If you want to apply for Google Adsense, you have to apply SSL certificate on your domain before applying.
6. Mobile-Friendly Website:
- Google prioritizes the mobile-friendly website during the crawling
- People user their 70% time on Mobile Phones
- 74% more likely to return to mobile-friendly websites.
- 70% People done their purchase through Mobile

