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dynamic contentWant to monitor and optimize your website’s technical SEO? With Conductor Monitoring crawling your website 24/7, you can measure your technical health in real-time, easily audit top-of-mind sections, and get alerted when any issues arise that might impact your rankings, traffic and conversions.This course includes seven lessons:
  • What sets Conductor Monitoring apart?
  • Measure your site’s technical health with the Dashboard
  • Customize your auditing with Segments
  • Uncover problems affecting your SEO performance with Issues
  • Get notified of technical issues as they happen with Alerts
  • Audit the technical health of your site with Pages
  • Audit pages on-the-go with the Conductor Monitoring Chrome extension
🚨Note: Please make sure to click the “start course” button at the bottom of the course and the “complete course” button at the end to get credit for completing the course 🚨
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Just started using Conductor Monitoring? There are many unique capabilities that set this real-time, 24/7 technical monitoring solution apart from traditional crawling software, so be sure to start here to understand how it can help you elevate your technical SEO program and processes.Topics include
  • The benefits of real-time alerting and 24/7 crawling
  • Smarter, more personalized auditing with segments
  • Unlocking advanced customization capabilities
  • Understanding the health score and importance score
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Do you know if your top website areas and website overall are technically healthy? With Conductor Monitoring’s Dashboard, you can visualize your technical SEO data in a way that’s actionable, not overwhelming. In this lesson, we walk through the various Dashboard metrics that help you easily report on your technical health in real-time, and uncover areas to focus on for improvement.Topics include:
  • Measuring how optimized your website is for SEO with the health score
  • Monitoring issues at the website and segment levels
  • Keeping an eye on what’s been changing on your website
  • Setting your scope to focus on the website sections most important to you

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Step-by-step

Here are the steps we cover in the video, with relevant links to more information. Be sure to watch to get more context and decision support for potential choices you might have to make as you go:
  1. In the Dashboard, customize your date range and Scope.
  2. Click View Issue Changes on the “Issues Changes” chart to review new and resolved issues in that date range.
  3. Back in the Dashboard, click View Page Changes on the “Page Changes” chart to see all page changes in that date range.
  4. Back in the Dashboard, click View All Graphs on the “Indexable” chart to access further, filterable visualizations of page types and characteristics.
  5. Back in the Dashboard, scroll down to review these technical health metrics for each Segment.
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Conductor Monitoring’s segments are a powerful tool to make your technical SEO reporting more effective and customize your auditing suite. By segmenting pages into categories like “Product Pages,” “Blog Posts,” or “Pages with missing meta descriptions,” you can focus your efforts on specific areas – and more efficiently detect patterns, track progress and maintain site health. In this lesson, we cover how to create segments and leverage them throughout the platform.Topics include:
  • Creating a segment for an important section of your website
  • Creating a segment to uncover pages with technical issues
  • Advanced segment customization based on custom elements and integrations
  • Using your segment throughout the platform’s various features

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Step-by-step

Here are the steps we cover in the video, with relevant links to more information. Be sure to watch to get more context and decision support for potential choices you might have to make as you go:
  1. In Settings, go to Segments and click Create Segment.
  2. Add the Columns which you want to use for filtering, and set the filter value in each column according to your needs.
  3. Customize the name and look of your Segment with the Set Label button.
  4. If desired, adjust the Size Limit to set a maximum percentage or number of pages in the Segment.
  5. Save your Segment for use across the platform’s various features, to drill into that set of pages more easily.
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Do you need to triage the issues most impacting your website’s SEO and AEO performance and prioritize fixes that will have the biggest impact? In this lesson, we cover how to review in Conductor Monitoring all the ways in which your website overall and important sections may not be meeting SEO and AEO best practices.Topics include:
  • Identifying issues at the platform level
  • Reviewing issues affecting your website’s pages
  • Prioritizing the issues most impacting SEO and AEO performance
  • Investigating why and how to fix flagged issues
  • Using Tracked Changes to know when issues occurred and verify implementation of fixes

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Step-by-step

Here are the steps we cover in the video, with relevant links to more information. Be sure to watch to get more context and decision support for potential choices you might have to make as you go:
  1. In Platform, review any open platform-level issues on the right-hand side.
  2. In Issues, use the Issue Type filter to view SEO issues, AEO issues, or both together.
  3. Review the top issue categories on the left-hand side, prioritized by how many Health Score points are being deducted for each.
  4. Click into an Issue category to see individual issues and issue prevalence.
  5. Click see affected pages to review the list of pages affected by that issue.
  6. Click Tracked Changes to review which page issues were opened or resolved and when.
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SEO issues can have a major impact on your rankings, traffic and—ultimately—revenue. That’s why Conductor Monitoring’s automatic alerting system notifies you of significant changes and urgent issues in real-time. In this lesson, we walk through how to optimize your alert configuration to notify the right team members with the relevant information at the right time—so your team can react as quickly as possible and ensure everything is running smoothly.Topics include:
  • Understanding all change types that can trigger an alert
  • Customizing alerts based on segments, sensitivity and recipients
  • Creating alerts for specific team members about the pages they care about
  • Creating alerts for issues specific to your website
  • Modifying existing alert settings to minimize unnecessary notifications

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Step-by-step

Here are the steps we cover in the video, with relevant links to more information. Be sure to watch to get more context and decision support for potential choices you might have to make as you go:
  1. In Alerts, click on Alert Settings to review all your active alert definitions.
  2. Click Create Alert Definitions to configure custom alerts for changes about which you want to be notified.
  3. On the Alert Settings page, you can also bulk edit existing alert definitions by selecting multiple alerts and clicking the blue settings buttons that appear at the top.
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Conductor Monitoring crawls your pages 24/7, so that you can track, monitor and analyze critical SEO elements in real-time on a page-by-page basis. In this lesson, we walk through the Pages feature, where you can get an in-depth view into any individual URL and use advanced filtering options to scan your website’s pages for the data you need most. Targeted auditing has never been easier.Topics include:
  • Filtering your website’s URLs by specific properties to find the pages you need
  • Creating segments for later use
  • Customizing your view to display the page properties most important to you
  • Pulling in additional page elements and performance data
  • Investigating an individual page
  • Reviewing historical page changes

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Step-by-step

Here are the steps we cover in the video, with relevant links to more information. Be sure to watch to get more context and decision support for potential choices you might have to make as you go:
  1. In Pages, adjust the Columns to display all the page-level data points you want to review.
  2. Filter across any of the Columns to drill down into a set of pages of interest.
  3. Click on any individual page to see all of its data and issues in real time.
  4. Review a history of that page’s changes with Tracked Changes.
  5. Back in Pages, review a history of all pages’ changes by clicking Tracked Changes in the upper right.
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Are you reviewing a page on your website and need to know if it’s technically sound? The Conductor Monitoring Chrome Extension empowers you with real-time insights into your page’s critical SEO metrics, active issues and change history—directly from your browser. In this lesson, we walk through how to use the extension to assess your page’s technical health and spot opportunities for improvement.Topics include:
  • Reviewing your page’s critical SEO metrics like health score, indexability status, content structure, and more in one click
  • Spotting issues that may be affecting your page’s SEO performance
  • Reviewing what’s changed on your page and when
  • Jumping straight to the relevant reports in Conductor Monitoring about the page you care about

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Step-by-step

Here are the steps we cover in the video, with relevant links to more information. Be sure to watch to get more context and decision support for potential choices you might have to make as you go:
  1. Download the Conductor Website Monitoring extension for Google Chrome.
  2. Navigate to a page on your website that you are tracking with Conductor Website Monitoring.
  3. Open the Chrome extension to review the page’s data, structure and characteristics in real time.
  4. Review any open Issues on the Issues tab.
  5. Review a history of the page’s changes on the Changes tab.
  6. Click Open in App to go directly to the page’s report in the Conductor Website Monitoring platform.
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