What are the top 3 things you evaluate when contracted to SEO a website?
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As a freelancer, what are the top 3 things you evaluate when contracted to SEO a website for a client?
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- Keyword Research - Making Sure the right keywords are being targeted. Identification of Top10/50/100 Keywords, Current Rankings, Competition Identification, Analysis and Comparison.
- Site Index-ability, Keyword Targeting, Content Quality & any architecture level issues.
- Domain Link Profile, Strength, Social & other business initiativesand assets that can drive domain authority.
Dividing the above 3 points into On-Page (1st 2 Items) and (3rd Item)
I hope this helps.
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- Keyword research - are they targeting the right terms?
- Crawlability - are spiders finding their pages easily? This includes site architecture.
- Content - are the pages any good/optimized.
And as a bonus you can explain to them how they're going to need to do some linkbuilding
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Assuming this is an existing website, first I would take a moment to determine what had been done up till now; so onpage, backlinks, traffic, etc.; Second I would evaluate the UX making sure things flow for when the user is interacting and not causing a high bounce rate or other issues; Third I would analyze the competition as to determine an appropriate approach for the client to move forward on. With us we offer our advice as a consult and/or service, where they can then take the info somewhere else if they like, or have us perform the optimizations. Additionally we look at this a bit more in depth when in a real scenario, we try to bring a whole picture approach bringing in brand identity, development, and technology to aid in getting the desired results. Hope this helps with whatever you are looking for.
Todd Richard
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