Internal linking: a simple strategy that boosts rankings
Internal links tell search engines which pages matter and how topics relate. A practical system you can apply in an afternoon.
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BoostSEO Team
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How to read your BoostSEO report and action plan
A tour of the audit report: scores, issues, keyword clusters, competitors, GEO and the action plan — and the order to work in.
BoostSEO Team
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Your BoostSEO report turns hundreds of checks into a short list of things to do. Here is how to read it.
1. Scores
At the top you see five scores from 0 to 100: SEO (overall search health), GEO (readiness for AI answers), Content, Technical and Performance. Use them to track progress over time rather than as goals in themselves.
2. Action plan
The action plan lists every task in priority order, calculated from severity, how many pages are affected, the opportunity of each keyword topic and the estimated effort. Filter it to quick wins, high impact, content or still to do, and tick tasks as you complete them — your progress is saved in the project.
3. Issues
Every issue explains why it matters and how to fix it, and lists the affected pages. Filter by category (technical, on-page, content, links, images, structured data, mobile, security, performance, GEO) or by severity.
4. Keywords & clusters
BoostSEO extracts what each page targets and groups related terms into topics. For each cluster you get metrics (pages, average words, interlinking, questions answered) and specific recommendations. Choose a data source — free on-page and Autocomplete data, your own Search Console, or paid volume and difficulty data on Pro — to add search demand.
5. Competitors
Add competitor domains to compare page counts, content depth, schema usage, AI-crawler access and topic coverage. Gaps become tasks.
6. GEO
See which AI crawlers your robots.txt blocks, whether content is visible without JavaScript, how many pages answer questions directly, and get an llms.txt draft. Pro members can run the AI visibility check for their key questions.
7. Pages
A sortable table of every crawled URL with status, title, word count, depth, links and issues — click a page to see its details.
Recommended workflow
- Fix critical issues (blocked crawling, noindex, broken pages).
- Work through quick wins.
- Pick one or two keyword clusters and complete their tasks.
- Re-run the audit and compare with the previous one.
SEO & GEO guides from the team behind BoostSEO and ToolCMB.