Performing an SEO Audit.

[michalpaul123]

What are the basic points that we need to include when we are looking to perform an SEO audit of any client’s website? I am not sure of these things and would really appreciate your advice in this matter. Do the Audit points differ in case of an e-commerce website as opposed to those in case of a professional website? Are there any set standard points that are to be followed? Can someone guide me with these questions please? I appreciate any views or suggestions that you may post.

[dburk]

I spy a spambot

[renhoek]

I don't get it. Looks like a legit post, how does it look like a spambot?

[dburk]

Originally Posted by renhoek

I don't get it. Looks like a legit post, how does it look like a spambot?

Hi renhoek,

People who operate spambots are getting a little more sophisticated in their approach these days. They harvest questions from places like Yahoo Answers, Q&A search engines and other forums. They then use bots to automatically register fictitious user accounts on thousands of forums and then post these scraped questions as a new thread.

The footprints are rather subtle, but you will notice that they generally never participate in the threads they start, except for the occasional generic reply. There questions are usually very broad in nature and designed to be triggered by targeted keywords. It becomes more obvious as the number of cut-and-paste posts grow. You can often spot them by the randomness of their posting pattern and the almost always generic nature of each posts.

I believe in some cases it may actually be a human paid-to-post person serving the exact same function of a bot. You know some of that third-world labor is very cheap and you can train actual humans to perform like a spambot.

I'm sure that if michalpaul123 is an actual human, that has a genuine interest in this thread, he will reply in a way that shows that he has the comprehension of a real human. Let's wait and see if he responds.