[HIRING] Comprehensive SEO Audit Needed

• We rewrote several high-traffic articles using AI and changed their URLs at the same time. Some have 301 redirects in place, some may not. Traffic on affected pages has dropped between 40% and 100%.
• We have multiple versions of some URLs live simultaneously — we need every duplicate identified and documented.
• Impressions have dropped from 762K to 462K in a single 28-day period. Clicks are also declining despite average position improving, which suggests a CTR or indexing problem.
• We switched off an AI news integration in late April/May 2026 which was artificially inflating our topic count — this may have caused crawl budget issues.
• Several pages are sitting at positions 10–20 with very high impression counts but near-zero CTR.

• Full crawl of the site — all URLs, status codes, redirect chains, redirect loops
• Export of every currently ranking URL with current position, clicks, impressions, CTR (pulled from GSC if you need access)
• Identification of all duplicate URLs, near-duplicate content, and canonicalisation issues
• Crawl budget analysis — are we wasting crawl budget on forum pagination, tag pages, profile pages, or dead content?
• Core Web Vitals assessment across key page types
• Mobile usability issues
• XML sitemap audit — what's included, what shouldn't be
• Robots.txt review
• Subdomain analysis — is journal.startupnetworks.co.uk causing any domain authority split or crawl issues?
• Internal linking structure — are our most important pages getting sufficient internal link equity?
• Redirect audit — every 301, 302, and redirect chain on the site documented

• Title tag and H1 audit across top 25 pages — mismatches, duplicates, missing, too long/short
• Meta description coverage and quality
• Schema markup audit — what's implemented, what's missing, what's wrong
• Keyword cannibalisation — multiple pages targeting the same terms
• Thin content identification — pages with insufficient content to rank
• Pages where the URL slug no longer matches the content (due to title rewrites)

• Full backlink profile audit — toxic links, lost links, anchor text distribution
• Domain authority trend — has it declined over the period of our traffic drop?
• Competitor backlink gap analysis — what are our top 3 competitors getting links from that we aren't?
• Any manual actions or algorithmic penalty indicators

• Full export of all currently ranking URLs with positions, clicks, impressions, CTR — I want this as a clean spreadsheet
• Pages that were ranking and are no longer indexed — cross-reference GSC coverage report
• Identification of which specific URL changes have caused ranking loss
• Pages with high impressions and low CTR — these need title/meta recommendations
• Quick-win opportunities — pages sitting on page 2 (positions 8–20) with high impression volume that could move to page 1 with targeted improvement

• Full written audit report with executive summary, findings, and prioritised action plan
• Separate spreadsheet of all ranking URLs with current metrics
• Separate spreadsheet of all identified technical issues with severity rating and recommended fix
• Prioritised rewrite/fix list — what to tackle first to recover traffic fastest

• Google Search Console access
• Google Analytics access
• Existing GSC data exports covering last 16 months

• Examples of previous SEO audits you have completed (ideally for forum/community sites or content-heavy sites)
• Your proposed methodology
• Turnaround time
• Fixed price quote or hourly rate with estimated hours
• Any questions about the site before quoting

Surgation said:

Budget: Open to proposals
Turnaround: Within 7 days preferred
Payment: Paypal, Crypto

About the site:
startupnetworks.co.uk is a UK startup website. We have around 1,700 indexed pages covering topics on funding, business setup, startup resources, events, and founder tools. The site runs on Invision Community software.

The situation:
We are experiencing significant traffic decline and need a thorough, expert audit to identify every issue. This is not a small job and I am not looking for a basic automated report. I need someone who will actually dig in.

Specific known issues going into this:

• We rewrote several high-traffic articles using AI and changed their URLs at the same time. Some have 301 redirects in place, some may not. Traffic on affected pages has dropped between 40% and 100%.
• We have multiple versions of some URLs live simultaneously — we need every duplicate identified and documented.
• Impressions have dropped from 762K to 462K in a single 28-day period. Clicks are also declining despite average position improving, which suggests a CTR or indexing problem.
• We switched off an AI news integration in late April/May 2026 which was artificially inflating our topic count — this may have caused crawl budget issues.
• Several pages are sitting at positions 10–20 with very high impression counts but near-zero CTR.

What I need — the full audit must cover:

Technical SEO

• Full crawl of the site — all URLs, status codes, redirect chains, redirect loops
• Export of every currently ranking URL with current position, clicks, impressions, CTR (pulled from GSC if you need access)
• Identification of all duplicate URLs, near-duplicate content, and canonicalisation issues
• Crawl budget analysis — are we wasting crawl budget on forum pagination, tag pages, profile pages, or dead content?
• Core Web Vitals assessment across key page types
• Mobile usability issues
• XML sitemap audit — what's included, what shouldn't be
• Robots.txt review
• Subdomain analysis — is journal.startupnetworks.co.uk causing any domain authority split or crawl issues?
• Internal linking structure — are our most important pages getting sufficient internal link equity?
• Redirect audit — every 301, 302, and redirect chain on the site documented

On-Page SEO

• Title tag and H1 audit across top 25 pages — mismatches, duplicates, missing, too long/short
• Meta description coverage and quality
• Schema markup audit — what's implemented, what's missing, what's wrong
• Keyword cannibalisation — multiple pages targeting the same terms
• Thin content identification — pages with insufficient content to rank
• Pages where the URL slug no longer matches the content (due to title rewrites)

Authority and Off-Page

• Full backlink profile audit — toxic links, lost links, anchor text distribution
• Domain authority trend — has it declined over the period of our traffic drop?
• Competitor backlink gap analysis — what are our top 3 competitors getting links from that we aren't?
• Any manual actions or algorithmic penalty indicators

Content and Rankings

• Full export of all currently ranking URLs with positions, clicks, impressions, CTR — I want this as a clean spreadsheet
• Pages that were ranking and are no longer indexed — cross-reference GSC coverage report
• Identification of which specific URL changes have caused ranking loss
• Pages with high impressions and low CTR — these need title/meta recommendations
• Quick-win opportunities — pages sitting on page 2 (positions 8–20) with high impression volume that could move to page 1 with targeted improvement

Deliverable format:

• Full written audit report with executive summary, findings, and prioritised action plan
• Separate spreadsheet of all ranking URLs with current metrics
• Separate spreadsheet of all identified technical issues with severity rating and recommended fix
• Prioritised rewrite/fix list — what to tackle first to recover traffic fastest

Access I can provide:

• Google Search Console access
• Google Analytics access
• Existing GSC data exports covering last 16 months

To apply please provide:

• Examples of previous SEO audits you have completed (ideally for forum/community sites or content-heavy sites)
• Your proposed methodology
• Turnaround time
• Fixed price quote or hourly rate with estimated hours
• Any questions about the site before quoting

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