Lesson 14 of 1914 minBeginner

Your first site audit

Configuring a crawl you can trust

Set the start URL, respect robots rules, decide on subdomains and cap the crawl depth. A misconfigured crawl produces confident nonsense.

Why this lesson matters

This lesson belongs to Your first site audit, the part of SEO Foundations where the goal is: turn a raw crawl into a prioritised action list.

Read it once, then do it straight away on a real site inside RankAudit. Nothing here is theory for its own sake — every step produces something you can show a client.

Do it now

  1. 1Open RankAudit with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
  2. 2Crawl a site and triage the issue list.
  3. 3Export your RankAudit issue list, keep only the items that touch a page with traffic, and schedule them as tasks in RankOps for the next two weeks.