thehut website audit
DESCRIPTION
Another SEO audit, but for thehut.com leading ecommerce site.TRANSCRIPT
SEO AUDIT DEC ’11HTTP: / /FATBALLOON.CO.UK
Who is The Hut?
The Hut is an ecommerce store based in the UK selling all kind of electrical, game, dvd and consumer products. The Hut was founded in 2004 to compete with sites such as play.com The Hut Group was acquired by Zavvi in 2008.In 2009 The Hut was awarded one of the Uks fastes growing websites (top 100)
Overview
This audit will contain the following:- On site considerations - SERPs review- Link Analysis- ‘Panda’ review- Ecommerce considerations - Competitor / keyword analysis
Thehut.com
Unique visitors p/d 6,0002.39% increase in visits p/m Alexa Rank 485 (UK) Linking root domains - 368Domain authority – 56Facebook shares 971
Play.com
Unique visitors p/d 135,70536,84% increase in visits p/m Alexa Rank 36 (UK) Linking root domains – 3,833Domain authority – 86Facebook shares 1,729
Domain Metrics
Crawl Errors
Crawl Errors (2)
Meta Keywords Positions
404
404 page – none!
Suggested 404 page
Unique Content – Limited
Unique Content - Pages
www.thehut.com/10173840.html www.thehut.com/10273473.html www.thehut.com/10432874.html www.thehut.com/10477194.html www.thehut.com/10477261.html www.thehut.com/10173840.html According to
http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php the above pages are 97% similar.
Duplicate Content - Graph
From a survey of 10,000 pages, 3,000 have duplicate content issues
Link Graph
Majestic link graph showing historic profiles for Zavvi and The Hut. The graphs are almost identical.
Separate link management
Product / Google Base Feed
Product - “Bench Womens Black Dial Rectangular Case Watch”
http://www.thehut.com/10568923.html - indexed
http://www.google.co.uk/#num=100&hl=en&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=VX_nTrnaJIXh8APAp7mLCg&ved=0CEYQBSgA&q=Bench+Womens+Black+Dial+Rectangular+Case+Watch&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=75fac2c3fd963cec&biw=1168&bih=726 - not in shopping feed
Google Base Info
Google Base Infohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Base http://code.google.com/apis/base/starting-out.
html
http://googlebase.blogspot.com/www.google.com/merchants/newfeed - submit
Ecommerce Considerations
store details one click ordering order from different channels such as
facebook / twitterzappos style ecommerce support
SERPs – Shopping Feed (paid)
Keyword - cheap ps3 game
SERPs – Universal Search
Keyword - cheap nintendo wii games
SERPs – Shopping Feed (organic)
Keyword - cheap ds
Reviews
Integrate reviews into products for social element to ecommerce
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/19931990/-/Product.html
http://www.prezzybox.com/atari-flashback-3-console.aspx
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B002RLC7WO/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary