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Thanks Chris!

Hi,

How do you determine whether trailing slashes are creating duplicate pages? Search Console is showing both /about and about/ for example but how do I know whether this is a problem?

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James

Sounds like a good idea. I'm just trying to provide basic data on a potential clients' site - traffic, rankings, main errors and things that are working for them. Some tools actually do a pretty good job of this, but only seem to do this for the homepage, rather than the entire site. I guess I'll have to use multiple tools and hope the effort is worth it as it's a free service.

Do you use SEO profiler?

Hi John,

Do you use SEMRush? I've been thinking of signing up. Can you run unlimited reports do you know? Screaming Frog is great and is what I'll use for thorough Audits but I'm just trying to generate lead generation/potential new client reports.

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Good point.

Really it's best to use S. Frog then and to extract that info for a website review instead of trying to find software that gives the overall 'health' of a site and produces a report?

thanks for your answer by the way!

Hi,
I'd like to offer free website health checks (basic audits) and am wondering what tools other people use for this? It would be good to use something that presents the data well.

Moz is great but it gets expensive if I want to offer these to many businesses in the hope of taking on just a few as clients and doing a full manual audit for them.

So far I've tried seositecheckup.com (just checks a single page though), metaforensics.io and mysiteauditor.

Thanks!

Thanks John - really helpful!

Hi

Thanks for this! So you'd say the exact match in the title but not in the H1 as well? How often would you use it in the body?

Best, James

Hi,

I read that you should give up on using exact keywords on a page if it means that the written content flows better. I just want your thoughts on this please because I don't want to miss opportunities.

The keywords used are an example: SEO LONDON is the high vol./popular keyword that I want a page to rank for. Would I use that as the main keyword throughout the page, even though it doesn't really make sense (by this I mean you'd never really use this term other than typing it into google)? Or should I use something that makes more sense such as, 'SEO IN LONDON' or LONDON SEO?

Would Google overlook the 'IN' in 'seo in london' so it's seen as 'SEO London'? (Same sort of question for LONDON SEO).

If this is the case then why does google still show 1000 hits for SEO LONDON and just 100 for SEO IN LONDON? This makes me think that I should just target the exact keyword that people are typing even if it doesn't look natural.

Best, James

hi

Just read a Yoast article explaining that the homepage should never be optimized for a specific keyword and should only be optimized for its business or brand name.

i have a large site that I'd like to rank (or increase traffic for as I know people get irritated with that term now) for 'Campervan hire'. It has plenty of sub pages going after 'Campervan hire 'location'' for example.

it makes sense to me for the homepage keyword - my core keyword - to be 'Campervan hire' and for the homepage to be optimised for this. However, the article I've just read (https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/) suggests a separate page for this keyword.

What are your thoughts pls??

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Hi,

i do see what you mean and i think I can see the sense in what Yoast are saying. if I were typing a general term like 'Campervan hire' into search though, I'd not be looking for an informational page on this but to actually rent a camper. Coming across a homepage for rentals nationwide would seem a 'useful' result. My worry is that I'll miss an opportunity to rank well for a competitive keyword With my view.

Our high content/text pages are in the form of Campervan travel guides and so focus on visitors rather than engines. A page on Campervan hire for the sake of it may be a bit spammy.

Thanks again- James

Hi Don

thanks for replying. Article: https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/

lm thinking it's wrong too. We rank #1 for a local camper rental website- the homepage optimized for the core/head keywords and it's always the page at the top.

James

Hi, thanks for this. I agree with you based on what I've read elsewhere. I have shared the link a few times but I guess it's not showing up.

Here it is again: https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/

if you google Yoast . Com / homepage - seo

thanks

Thanks, this makes sense!