Lesson 16 of 1914 minBeginner
Your first site audit
Fixing broken links and redirect chains
Every 404 in your navigation wastes crawl budget and user trust. Collapse redirect chains to a single hop and update the links at the source.
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
- 1Open RankAudit with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
- 2Crawl a site and triage the issue list.
- 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.