Google: you should check 5xx errors on your website

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should check the 5xx errors on your website. The website audit tool in SEOprofiler helps you to find 5xx errors on your website quickly and easily.

How to find 5xx errors on your website

Regular technical audits of your website are important. Servers can have problems, links can change, and there can be many other things that can have a negative impact on the search engine rankings of your website. Finding 5xx errors (and other errors) is very easy with the website audit tool in SEOprofiler:

Step 1: Create a project for your website

Creating a project just means that you tell the website audit tool which website you want to check. Click the ‘Add new project‘ button on your account overview page and enter the address of your website. That’s all there is to it.

When you create a new SEOprofiler account, the first project will be created automatically.

Step 2: The report will be created automatically

After creating the new project, the website audit report will be created automatically. Select Website audit > Overview in the menu on the left in your SEOprofiler account. You will see an overview of the errors that were found on your website:

Filter the checked files in the website audit tool

The website audit tool checks many different things that have an impact on the position of your web pages in the search result pages of Google and other search engines.

Step 3: Fix the errors

Open the page Checked files in the website audit tool to get an overview of all checked pages.

By defaults, the checked files are sorted by the number of issues that have been found. You use the filters on the top of the page to show files that contain particular errors:

Filter the checked files in the website audit tool

The pages shows the list of files that have been checked. To get the error details for a page, click the Details button next to a page URL:

SEO audit details

Create your audit report now

Create your SEOprofiler account now to get a website audit report for your own website. The website audit tool in SEOprofiler automatically checks your web pages once per week. You can also create audit reports manually.

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Tom Cassy

Tom Cassy is the CEO of SEOprofiler. He blogs about search engine optimization and website marketing topics at “http://blog.seoprofiler.com”.