A 3-step guide to boosting your SEO

What is an SEO Score?

An SEO score is a measure of how well your site performs when it comes to search engine optimization. The exact meaning of the metric may vary between different SEO tools.

Usually, the term “SEO Score” describes a website’s overall technical SEO health.

A typical SEO scoring example would be Semrush’s Site Health metrics in the site audit tool.

A high Site Health SEO score means that your website’s technical aspects are well optimized for search engines. The more technical issues and problems you have on your website, the lower your SEO score will be.

please note: In this post we will mainly focus on the site health score. However, we also cover other SEO metrics these can be good indicators of your overall SEO performance.

How can you check your SEO score?

To check your website’s SEO score, perform a technical SEO audit to analyze your overall SEO health. Semrush has a dedicated tool called Site Audit who can help you with that.

Here’s what you need to do:

First of all, create a free Semrush account (no credit card required).

Then go to “Projects” and create your first project by entering the domain and project name.

Once you have created the project, go to the Website Audit Tool and select your domain (or subdomain or subdirectory). The tool will crawl your website in the same way Google does to analyze any potential technical SEO issues.

You can crawl 100 pages with your free Semrush account. Follow the steps to set up your first traverse ...