SEO Fix Guide: How to Fix the Issues Hurting Your Rankings
Most tools tell you what's wrong. This shows you how to fix it.
An audit is only useful if you know what to do with it. Below is every common SEO problem a scan surfaces — grouped by type, each linked to a step-by-step fix. Run a free scan to find which ones apply to your site, then work down the list.
What a paid guide actually looks like.
This is one fix card from a real $8.99 remediation guide, generated for allbirds.com (Shopify, 62/100 — Needs work). Eight more fixes ship in the same report, plus a detailed walkthrough per issue.
Adds Organization schema so search engines can attribute the brand and unlock rich-result eligibility (currently zero structured data on the page).
Technical SEO fixes
The crawl-and-index foundation. Get these wrong and search engines can't read or trust your pages.
- Fix robots.txt errors → Rules accidentally blocking Google or Bing from crawling your site.
- Create & submit a sitemap → How to build an XML sitemap and submit it so engines discover every page.
- Fix canonical tag issues → Duplicate URLs splitting your ranking signals — point them at one canonical.
- Fix broken schema markup → Broken or missing structured data that's costing you rich results.
- Find & fix broken links → 404s that waste crawl budget and erode trust — how to catch and repair them.
- Fix Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) → Slow loads, layout shift and input lag — the speed metrics Google ranks on.
- Pass mobile-first indexing → What Google sees on real phones, and how to make it pass.
On-page fixes
The signals on each page that tell search engines — and searchers — what it's about.
Platform-specific fixes
The exact settings to change on your CMS. Abby detects your platform and tailors every fix.
Local SEO
For businesses that serve an area or have a storefront.
Start here — understand your SEO
New to this? Read these first, then scan.
- SEO for people who hate SEO → The no-jargon starting point.
- Audit your site in 5 minutes → Run a full SEO audit fast.
- Technical SEO checklist → A small-business technical SEO checklist.
- Read your SEO report → Your report explained in plain English.
- The #1 mistake killing traffic → The single SEO mistake most likely dragging you down.
- Why your 'perfect' site isn't ranking → It looks fine but won't rank — here's what's really going on.
Find your issues, then fix them
Run a free scan to see exactly which of these apply to your site. The free report shows what's broken; the $8.99 fix report gives you the exact code and step-by-step fix for every issue — tailored to your platform.
Scan my site free →More on our approach: how the scanner works · why most free SEO tools mislead you · why we built a scanner that gives the fix