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Patrick Stox

Product Advisor

Ahrefs

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Product Advisor at Ahrefs. After auditing 1M+ websites: most flagged 'issues' don't matter. Focus on impact-effort ROI, automate the rest, embrace Edge SEO.

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talkTech SEO Connect 2024· Friday, October 18, 2024· Raleigh

What I Learned From Auditing Over 1,000,000 Websites

9:45 PM10:30 PM · Tech SEO Connect 2024

Most flagged 'issues' don't matter. Use impact-effort matrices, automate everything, embrace Edge SEO. Audit findings by ROI, not by checklist completionism.

  • Broken page with no traffic + no links = don't fix it
  • Multiple H1s, redirect chains under 5 hops, duplicate content = usually fine
  • 60% of the web is duplicate content — Google handles canonicalization well
  • Hreflang misconfig cost one e-commerce client $6.5M/day — DO check that
  • AI scripts that took 12-14h now take 45 min — embrace automation + Edge SEO