Technical SEO Checklist: What to Fix First on an Underperforming Site
The order matters. Crawlability before content, indexation before links — and why most sites fix these in reverse.
Working notes on what we actually see in audits and accounts — written for people who have to make decisions, not for other agencies.
These are planned article titles, not published posts. The cards below show the content plan and the design of the blog index. They are deliberately not linked to article pages, because those articles do not exist yet — we are not going to pretend otherwise. Once written, each card links to its post.
The order matters. Crawlability before content, indexation before links — and why most sites fix these in reverse.
Three acronyms, one underlying discipline. What genuinely differs, what is marketing noise, and what to do about it.
Counting page views as conversions, double-firing tags and PMax attribution — the errors we find in most account audits.
How filter combinations generate tens of thousands of URLs, and the rules that bring them back under control.
Author archives, attachment pages, tag bloat and plugin defaults — the indexation problems nobody switches off.
Fixed URL structures, duplicate product paths and limited robots control — what you can change and what you cannot.
Frequency climbs, click-through falls, cost per result rises. How to spot it before it costs you a month of budget.
Testing without research, calling results early, and changing five things at once. The three habits that waste CRO budgets.
Categories, services, attributes and Q&A — the completeness gap that separates the map pack from page two.
Image pipelines, script loading and layout stability — the changes that shift field data rather than lab scores.
The URL inventory and redirect map that separate a successful replatform from a traffic collapse.
Unit economics before channel selection. The calculation that should precede every ad account you open.
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A free audit gets you the specific version of all of this — what is wrong with your site, in priority order.