Troubleshooting Common Issues with Simple SEO

Navigating the intricacies of search engine optimization (SEO) can be challenging, especially when issues hinder your website’s performance. This guide on troubleshooting common issues with Simple SEO is designed to help you identify and resolve these problems efficiently.

In this article, we will discuss:

• Problem
• Troubleshooting Steps
• Review

Problem

All the options in your Simple SEO dashboard have been disabled and are currently blank.

Troubleshooting Steps

Troubleshoot the issues of your Simple SEO dashboard by following the steps below.

1. Have you established your Business Profile? To fully utilize the features offered by Simple SEO, it is important to complete your primary SEO settings. We will use the information you provide in this step to personalize our recommendations for your website and generate useful ranking reports.
   1. Yes – Proceed to step 2.
   2. No – Follow the steps in the How Do I Set Up My Project section of How Do I Get Started with Simple SEO?
2. Did you connect your Google Analytics and Search Console to your Simple SEO project? When you connect your Google Analytics and Search Console accounts, you can monitor the traffic and presence of your website in the Results tab of the Simple SEO dashboard.
   1. Yes – Contact support.
   2. No – Follow the instructions in Simple SEO - All About Google Analytics and Simple SEO - All About Google Search Console. If your Business Profile is set up, but the Action Plan fails to refresh each month, please contact support.
   3. Google Analytics is unable to display data. There are multiple reasons why data may not be displayed in the Google Analytics tab on your Simple SEO dashboard. It's possible that the measurement code wasn't installed or wasn't properly installed on your website, traffic hasn't been generated, or the data hasn't been processed yet. Please refer to [GA4] Troubleshoot tag setup on your website article to troubleshoot this issue.

Review

Effectively troubleshooting Simple SEO issues directly correlates with keeping and enhancing search engine performance on your website. Setting up a proper business profile and linking all the required tools, such as Google Analytics and Search Console, will solve the most common problems and optimize efforts made in SEO.