Note: This post was formerly called SEO Diagnosis Dinosaur, but I’ve recently changed it (2013 – Jan) because it was dumb 
Professional SEO agencies receive quite a few enquiries when something goes wrong. Maybe you’ve noticed a traffic drop or something funny in search results, then panic sets in, and you call an SEO agency for help.
A doctor could diagnose your illness much faster if you gave him specific information, the same goes for SEO consultants who might spend working hours figuring out something you should have told them from the start.
The SEO Diagnosis Dinosaur (the tool below in this post) will run through a sample set of questions and checks that you should be doing before you contact professionals. By going through the list of questions, and clicking on the output button – we’ll auto-magically give you the information you need to give to an SEO.
Instructions
- Read the questions and click on the appropriate answer in the radio boxes (little circles)
- You can press the Clear button at any time to start over
- At the bottom of the form you can click on the Output button to get your information
Hopefully this helps a few people, thanks for reading. A special thanks to Naz who introduced me to JQUERY 36 hours ago, and Tom for saving me from dumb coding errors
David Sottimano comes from a varied background in Corporate Marketing and Professional Sales. His love affair between the internet and marketing has finally found the perfect balance at Distilled, where he *almost* always shares insider secrets.
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David, that’s one neat and simple tool.
Good luck in your JQUERY journey!
I might be addicted to JQUERY, I hope the obsession doesn’t ruin me
Thanks Max
A really nice tool! I’m always inundated with clients claiming that their rankings have dropped or changed when they are getting personalised or localised results. I will be sure to direct them to this tool in the future!
Love this idea – great approach to creating something that fills the gap between nothing at all and a full-blown tool (and, let’s face it, you can’t build a tool that magically solves all problems). If 10% of the people who go to hire an SEO had these basic questions in their hands, we’d all be a lot better off.
Yes! I love helping people out, especially in the Moz Q&A, except it takes 3-4 back and forth questions to actually determine the problem.
Great little tool! Like David has mentioned above, seen a big influx of emails recently so it will this will be a good tool to direct users to. BTW, great job with jQuery
This is far better than the infographic/walkthrough map with lots of arrows based on YES / NO answer I saw couple of months ago.
Thanks a ton for this David!
You’re welcome! I know exactly what you’re talking about, and I agree with you 100%.
Nice diagnostic tool, my first of port call would always be, has there been an IT upload?
this is something Ive never heard about it. Im very innovative for learning and seeking the knowledge this is really impressive. I really like Ctrl + shift + N :p this is really new for me
thanks buddy
I love this tool its very simple. I will be sure to using this tool in future for my work..Thanks mate
Thanks, now build on it! Then let me know
I also followed the step by step check, thanks for simple but wonderful tricks. Also, my website has been effcted by Google recent update penguin, wht do you have to say for my website (mentioned in the comment).
Hi Rahki, I guess my first question is how you know the penguin update affected your website? It’s really difficult to tell which update may have affected you especially considering when it comes to recent bundle of algorithm updates. If you’re certain it’s penguin, then I would encourage you to read http://www.seomoz.org/blog/7-achievable-steps-for-great-seo-after-the-penguin-update
This is such a simple but very great and usefull tool. thanks for sharing David. I have the same sentiment with Rahki. some of my monitored sites got affected with the penguin update, traffic went down severely.
now i have to pick up the pieces and do the things i need to do.
do you have any other suggestions how to be back on track?
Hi
Great article shared.
I have a question about Google Analytics Content Experiments.
My goal type is currently URL Destination. And we push conversions manually to analytics after phone call matching, normally it takes one day.
We use this code for pushing conversions.
var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'XX-XXXXXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowAnchor', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview','/www.getdiscountcoupon.com/stores/']);
What I want to know is how do I push a conversion manually for a specific variation.
Thanks in advance for help.