Varvy: A set of easy modern on-page SEO audit tools and Google guidelines
Varvy is an awesome modern simple toolbox to make sure your website complies with Google guidelines and best SEO practices. Varvy web performance tools are split into 3 subsets: SEO, Speed, Mobile. Just enter your URL into one of the Varvy tools and get a bunch of helpful insights (like accessibility, security, pagespeed, sitemaps, paid links, HTTP headers, image alt tag checker, if modified since, SEO issues, social mentions and much more). Here is a complete list of 15 currently available free Varvy tools:
- SEO Overview tools
- Pagespeed Optimization
- Mobile SEO
- Gzip compression test
- Link report / nofollow tool
- Page requests tool
- Javascript usage tool
- CSS delivery tool
- Social media count tool
- Base64 image encoder
- Bread crumb tool
- Address schema tool
- Ask Google tool
- Redirect mapper tool
- Varvy SEO tool
Additionally, Varvy provides easily digestible guides on each step to having a Google friendly site. For instance, here is the list of knowledge pieces and recommendations that you’ll find on the main page:
- Be clearly better
- Make pages for users
- Optimize for speed
- Mobile / multi-device
- Titles and alt tags
- Clear hierarchy & text links
- Default visible content
- Give users a map
- Don’t block resources
- The robots.txt file
- Paid links and Ads
- Add value to affiliate pages
- Block unuseful pages
- Avoid Auto generated pages
- Avoid link schemes
- Don’t try to trick Google
- Don’t cloak
- Avoid sneaky redirects
- Don’t use hidden text or links
- Avoid doorway pages
- Don’t use scraped content
- Session IDs and tracking
- Choose words wisely
- Don’t abuse rich snippets
- Use the right amount of links
- Don’t deceive users
- Text links are more reliable
- Broken links and correct HTML
- Dynamic pages
- Don’t add badware to pages
- Support if modified since
- Don’t keyword stuff your pages
- Submit content to Google
- Googlebot guide
- rel=”nofollow”
- What does rel= mean?
Patrick Sexton builds Varvy.com as a free and trustable educational resource to provide people with tools and information of a quality normally only found on paid sites.