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talk Friday, October 18, 2024 9:45 PM10:30 PM· Tech SEO Connect 2024

What I Learned From Auditing Over 1,000,000 Websites

Raleigh, North Carolina

Speaker

Patrick Stox
Patrick Stox

Product Advisor, Ahrefs

Product Advisor at Ahrefs. After auditing 1M+ websites: most flagged 'issues' don't matter. Focus on impact-effort ROI, automate the rest, embrace Edge SEO.

Abstract

Most flagged 'issues' don't matter. Use impact-effort matrices, automate everything, embrace Edge SEO. Audit findings by ROI, not by checklist completionism.

Suggested takeaways

  • Broken page with no traffic + no links = don't fix it
  • Multiple H1s, redirect chains under 5 hops, duplicate content = usually fine
  • 60% of the web is duplicate content — Google handles canonicalization well
  • Hreflang misconfig cost one e-commerce client $6.5M/day — DO check that
  • AI scripts that took 12-14h now take 45 min — embrace automation + Edge SEO

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