I did this SEO audit once for a guy whose homepage had ten H1 tags, five of which were just “Welcome.” His bounce rate looked like a diving board. That wasn’t the weirdest part. The favicon led to a broken image of a cat in space. No joke. Point being—people don’t know what the hell is going on under the hood. They think keywords and blog posts will save them. They won’t. You’re bleeding traffic and don’t even realize.
So when I landed on https://andrewlinksmith.com I did what I always do—eyes half-squinted, half-dreading the crawl result. But it didn’t suck. Clean layout, headings make sense (mostly), title tags doing their job. Still, I sniffed out issues. Slow load on mobile for starters—nothing criminal, but Google isn’t a patient beast and you know it. Plus, internal linking’s all polite and shy, missing chances to punch harder. Content? Not bad. Engaging even, sometimes. But room for... oomph. You can kinda hear it trying too hard to be polite. Like a Canadian apologizing for making a good point.
Broken backlinks lurking—those bastards always show up eventually—and a few odd meta descriptions written like someone glued together tweets and hoped for the best. There's voice there, just muffled. I think if you crank up the honesty and scrape off the generic—like sandpaper to waxy wood—it could scream.
What blows my mind every damn time is how people treat SEO audits like dental cleanings. They’ll wait until something hurts. Or falls out. By then your rankings are already down in the sewer playing cards with domains that haven’t posted since 2016. It’s not voodoo. It’s detective work. Sleuthing through click paths and seeing where attention dies. Then fixing it.
So yeah. Your site? It’s not a trainwreck. But it whispers when it should roar. Pull the data. Read the stories inside it. Test weird stuff. Link deep. And don’t ever trust a plugin to do the real brainwork.
Anyway. That’s what I do. That’s what a good audit is. Not a checklist. A diagnosis you didn’t know you needed.
So when I landed on https://andrewlinksmith.com I did what I always do—eyes half-squinted, half-dreading the crawl result. But it didn’t suck. Clean layout, headings make sense (mostly), title tags doing their job. Still, I sniffed out issues. Slow load on mobile for starters—nothing criminal, but Google isn’t a patient beast and you know it. Plus, internal linking’s all polite and shy, missing chances to punch harder. Content? Not bad. Engaging even, sometimes. But room for... oomph. You can kinda hear it trying too hard to be polite. Like a Canadian apologizing for making a good point.
Broken backlinks lurking—those bastards always show up eventually—and a few odd meta descriptions written like someone glued together tweets and hoped for the best. There's voice there, just muffled. I think if you crank up the honesty and scrape off the generic—like sandpaper to waxy wood—it could scream.
What blows my mind every damn time is how people treat SEO audits like dental cleanings. They’ll wait until something hurts. Or falls out. By then your rankings are already down in the sewer playing cards with domains that haven’t posted since 2016. It’s not voodoo. It’s detective work. Sleuthing through click paths and seeing where attention dies. Then fixing it.
So yeah. Your site? It’s not a trainwreck. But it whispers when it should roar. Pull the data. Read the stories inside it. Test weird stuff. Link deep. And don’t ever trust a plugin to do the real brainwork.
Anyway. That’s what I do. That’s what a good audit is. Not a checklist. A diagnosis you didn’t know you needed.