Before you begin: This guide shows you how to perform an SEO audit on your website. The site audit crawls your website for technical errors and performance issues which affect your SEO rankings.
How to Enter your Website URL
1] Login to TapClicks, and on the Raven menu, click Websites.
2] The SEO & SEM Productivity Tools page appears.
| NOTE: You'll generally see a list of websites that have been added to the SEO & SEM Productivity Tools list. In the event that no websites have been added yet, you will see a welcome page that gives you the option to start a website audit or start organic rank tracking. |
3] If the website you want to audit is already listed, locate it and click Site Auditing. The audit will update automatically.
4] If the website is not already in the list, click the Add New Website button in the upper right corner.
5] In the menu modal that appears, click Start Site Audit.
6] The New Site Audit form appears. Enter the URL of your website in the Website URL text box.
7] Press Tab on the keyboard, and the Website Name textbox will automatically populate with the URL.
8] At the bottom of the page, click Next. The Schedule Audit page appears.
How to Schedule the Audit
When auditing your website, you can run the audit once or schedule it for recurring weekly or monthly audits.
9] From the Analysis Schedule dropdown, choose how frequently to run the audit: one time, weekly, or monthly.
10] If you selected weekly, use the dropdown to the right to choose the day of the week to run the audit.
11] If you selected monthly, choose the day of the month to run the audit.
12] From the Crawl Depth dropdown, select the crawl depthfor your audit. This defines the maximum number of pages to analyze during the audit.
13] To exclude specific pages or entire folders from being crawled, enter the URL into the Block Pages from the Crawler text box. To learn more about how to specify the URL, see What are Path Exclusions?
14] Click the +Add button for each additional page or folder you want blocked and repeat step 14.
15] Once you have added all the pages you want to block, click Save at the bottom of the page.