We often get asked about how and why our onboarding process works. It’s important that we follow this process that we have considered and simplified over a long period of time.

Effective onboarding allows us to get to know your site while ensuring proper foundations are in place to achieve the most success from the upcoming SEO work. The purpose of this process is to ensure that we have the tools and cornerstones in place to build a lasting and effective SEO strategy for you. 

While every website is different and comes to us in various conditions, the onboarding process can bring quick improvements to many sites. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see a drastic increase in traffic within just a few short weeks – sometimes before we even begin the track work. To make sure everything is super clear though, here’s the general workflow we go through during the 14-day onboarding process.


Website Access, Systems & Reporting

The first thing we will need to do is connect to Google Analytics and Google Search Console. This allows us to analyze existing traffic, site structure, and provide ongoing reporting details for our dashboards, audits, and reports.

Here’s what we need from you:

  • Login details, or dedicated administrator-level account for your website
  • Shared access to the Google Analytics (Universal) property
  • Shared access to the Google Search Console property

Details & Background Info

After registration you’ll be presented with a short onboarding form to help us intake the various details needed, including some background information on your website, business, location, and target customers. It’s not terribly complex, but it's an important step for us!

Here’s what we need from you:

  • Your service and product details
  • Details on your target customers
  • Any existing keywords being targeted

Website Audit Report

Regardless of the tracks selected, our on page team will run and provide an in depth audit detailing the site’s technical SEO health and any major issues. Included are clear and intuitive charts as well as details on any of the various issues uncovered.

For sites registered on our On Page track, this audit report essentially serves as the first blueprint for us to base our track work on once it begins. For sites that are not registered with our On Page track, you may find it beneficial to share this audit with your development team to review and implement potential improvements.

Here’s a sample of what the audit report includes:

  • Details on your site’s loading speed and efficiency
  • Information on the crawlability of your site’s internal content
  • Analysis on content, heading, and meta issues
  • Important information regarding site security issues and concerns
  • Information on dozens of actionable errors and issues and more!

WordPress Upgrades

Registered WordPress sites benefit from additional optimizations and upgrades to improve site speed/load times, indexability, essential SEO site structure, and more.

Improvements typically include:

  • Optimization of existing site images
  • WP Rocket setup and configuration for caching and optimal performance
  • SEOPress installation & configuration

We will review and if already optimized or running comparable tools, we will leave them in place unless a clear benefit or improvement is available.