{"id":152016,"date":"2023-01-31T00:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T05:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=152016"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:58:33","slug":"seo-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/seo-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"10 SEO Issues That Really Matter & How to Fix Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Last year, we dug deep into a study of over a million domains<\/a> to figure out the most common technical SEO problems.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Surprisingly, the ones you see the most aren\u2019t necessarily the ones you should be losing sleep over. They may be worth fixing, but definitely not putting on the top of your list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, we found that meta descriptions were missing on 72.9% of studied sites. But these don\u2019t impact rankings, and Google will generate one for you in that case, anyway. Conversely, a serious issue of a canonical page pointing to a broken page was found on only 2.6% of sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you want to fix issues that can seriously impact your rankings, here\u2019s a better idea. You can use the free Ahrefs Webmaster Tools<\/a> and Google Search Console<\/a> to see if your site is affected by any of the nine issues we listed in this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to learn why these issues matter and how to use the tools to find and fix them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: In February 20226, Google updated its documentation clarifying that Googlebot crawls only the first 2 MB of supported file types<\/a>, including HTML. Any content beyond that limit is ignored. It\u2019s unlikely to affect most sites, but it\u2019s a critical problem wherever it does occur\u2014so I\u2019ve added it to this list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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