You don't always need to pay an expert to find out if your site has problems. In today's episode we discuss three simple site checks you can do yourself.

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Darryl: Hi and welcome to “The My Bloody Website podcast” where we talk about all things online especially for small and medium business owners or marketers. I'm Darryl King, I've been running a web agency for over 25 years. And my co-host Ed Pelgen, who's been running his online marketing agency for just as long. Our goals to cover things in a way anyone can understand and can improve how they use online in their business. And we're talking to you. This is episode 39 and it's called “Three simple site checks you can do for yourself”. How are you Ed? How are you doing?

Edmund: I'm doing very good Darryl. Yourself?

Darryl: Excellent, I'm doing very, very well

Edmund: So what are we talking about today mate?

Darryl: well, you know; we spend a lot of time in the nitty-gritty with highly technical; we know how to do advanced things. And a lot of times I think you can have a conversation with people and say to them; you know, and blah blah blah blah; and I'm; I do this to people a lot where I did bombard them with information. They go, okay; just one thing it'd be good

Edmund: yep

Darryl: so to step back and say to people listening. Here's three things that you can do as a audit for yourself to make sure you're on track.

Edmund: That’s right and can I just; I'm gonna quickly interject and I'm gonna say, the reason why this is really important was proven to me this week. When I was doing an order for a client. And they've been running this stuff for six months and no one had taken the time to look at just simple stuff. To check whether they were making any money. What does it; just; you know; everyone just assumed it was someone else's job or they didn't know how. So Darryl's got some good ideas this week about what you can do.

Darryl: and these are lowbrow. If I want to call them that way and that's not meant to be demeaning. These are just simple things that two of them particularly; you do not have to have any prior knowledge or an account or anything to do. The last one is predicated a little bit on you having access to something. But we'll get to that. And keep it in mind. Two episodes ago we talked about SSL implementation and there was episode 37. That's something you could check yourself we talked about it. So that's a bonus one out of the three. That's not included in three but if you didn't hear that episode go back and listen to it. And really it's about not just checking the homepage. It's got the secure signal. Actually looking across pages. And this probably comes into an overview for everyone. When you look at your site, when you review your site, don't just go to home page and go, life is good; okay? It's like walking in the front door of your house and go you know that's just great; it’s great. Walking back out again right? And then you walk around the corner and there's dishes not done, toilets stink, you know; whatever? So it's the same thing look at a bigger perspective and if you've got a large site. I know that you can't easily do some of these checks; across a large site. So you pick different areas. Don't fall in the trap where you know; I click the home page and I went to the men's climbing category and a woman's climbing category and the kids climbing category. Anything looks good. I went to the contact form and we're getting orders. It's all good; you know, so actually go bit deeper

Edmund: that's right

Darryl/Ed: all right well/ where's/ what

Darryl: okay, so this one; I got first-hand experience a couple of weeks ago and I think it's a really simple thing to do. So what you want to do is you want to go to google.com; google.com.au; whatever it is in your browser and you are going to type the word SITE S.I.T.