Your website’s technical health is crucial to its overall performance – not only to succeed in SEO but also to drive more user engagement, conversions, and ultimately, revenue.
Check out this webinar as we discuss the key areas of website health you need to focus on in 2024, and provide actionable tips for how to get the right platforms and processes in place to improve all your key site health metrics.
You'll learn:
- Why SEOs and website managers need to expand their view beyond content and keywords for maximum business results.
- Tips for improving your website's technical health (including crawlability, indexability, site speed, accessibility and more).
- How to build streamlined connected website health workflows to align your team and resolve issues faster.
With Richard Barrett and Matt Ford of Lumar, we’ll dive into ways to enable faster fixes and cause less stress for everyone involved.
With these tips, you’ll come away with ways to improve efficiency and efficacy, streamlining your website health improvement processes and ensuring every member of your team is on the same page.
Holistic Website Health & Technical Tips for SEO Success
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Holistic Website
Health & Technical
Tips for SEO Success
formerly Deepcrawl
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Agenda
Introductions & housekeeping
Why website experience is important
Holistic website health
Connected workflow
Conclusion
Questions & answers
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Why website
experience is
important
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Poll Question 1
What type of organization
do you currently work at?
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SEO efforts drive
traffic to a site. Fact.
● But why?
● Conversion on revenue
driving factors?
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Core Web Vitals improvement
- an important SEO action
- Minimal ranking impact
- Massive conversion rate impact
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Traffic without conversions
is just a vanity metric
Paying to serve content to users but
not getting conversions means actually
SEO could be costing you money!
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Website technical health is more important than ever…
Traffic Drivers
Organic traffic, paid
acquisition, content (e.g.
white papers and blogs),
email, social, etc.
Website
Technical Health
Page speed, internal
linking, accessibility,
canonicalization,
experience,
internationalization,
uniqueness, etc.
High-Performing
Website
High-ranking,
accessible, converting,
revenue-driving,
profitable.
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● The slower your site
responds to Google the
fewer pages Google will
crawl
● It's a ranking factor but
much more important than
that
● Slow sites are frustrating
and harm conversion rate!
● The end goal is conversions -
converting traffic that you’ve
captured
● Reduce frustration factor
to open up a new market
● User Experience. Compliance
is important but UX is key
● Page needs to be found &
indexed before we get into
the User Experience.
● Key pages all need to be
found and in a timely manner,
think about your internal
linking, sitemaps & robots.txt
● How soon your page is found
in your site structure is an
indicator of importance
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Tech SEO
Accessibility
Site Speed
Top Tips/3 Key Components of Holistic Website Health
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Poll Question 2
Do you find it difficult to get SEO work
prioritizedwith the web development team?
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Web development processes
are often complex and inefficient.
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This delays issues getting fixed, and
prevents your site reaching its full potential.
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The web development lifecycle
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Pain points in the web dev process…
All of which delay fixes being made.
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Website
Technical
Health { Accessibility
Technical SEO
Performance
Other
Prioritization: Avoid a backlog clogged with issues
2. Ineffective prioritization leads to backlog clogged with issues
Effective prioritization
leads to faster fixes ✅
Website
Technical
Health { Accessibility
Technical SEO
Performance
Other
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Action Item: Implement product markup
User Story
● As a site that wants to be more competitive in
search results, I want to implement product
markup in order to be eligible for product rich
results in search.
Prioritization: Write a ticket so it’s easy to prioritize.
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Action Item: Implement product markup
Context & Notes
● Product markup can increase the number of clicks and
CTR, driving more traffic to the website.
● If Google detects that some of the markup on your
pages may be using techniques that are outside our
structured data guidelines, your site may receive a
manual action.
● Google does not guarantee that features that consume
structured data will show up in search results.
Prioritization: Write a ticket so it’s easy to prioritize.
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Acceptance Criteria
● All /product/ pages have product markup (see full list of URLs)
● All required product fields are included.
● Schema.org markup is used. JSON-LD Markup is preferred and
recommended by Google.
● Only one product is marked up per page.
● Pages test as valid when using the Rich Results Test.
Prioritization: Write a ticket so it’s easy to prioritize.
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● Share a clear business case
● Explain details that aren’t
intuitive
● Build communal
understanding
● Be very clear on how you
would consider this fixed /
complete
● Provide developers with a way
of testing as they go
● Ensure requirements are met
improve efficiency
● Prevent issues or regressions
being introduced to
production
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Pre-release
Test
Write Acceptance
Criteria
Provide Context
Top Tips
To update Matt
30. Engage with web
dev workflow to
get things done
—> efficiency & ease
Accessibility -
directly affects
whether a user
can convert
Conversions rather
than just traffic
—> drive revenue
and growth
What should you take away?
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Questions
Lumar platform:
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Resource: Smart SEO
crawling strategies