What are SEO Focus Issues?

Modified on: Thu, 30 Jul, 2026 at 9:36 PM

Answer

Focus Issues show users where to direct efforts to optimize a site's content for readability by both search engines and website users. They can be customized to fit your particular knowledge or role, included in an SEO Activity Plan, and used to prioritize SEO improvements based on impact, effort, or frequency.

What Are SEO Focus Issues?

About SEO Focus Issues

Using Focus Issues, you can focus your SEO efforts on the technical, content, user experience and/or mobile issues that are most important to your organization.

Focus Issues shows the current SEO Score and the SEO Score that can be achieved by addressing the issues selected.

Prerequisites

Before configuring Focus Issues, ensure:

You have access to the SEO module.
You can access SEO > Optimize > Issues and Recommendations.
You have permission to manage Focus Issues for your organization.

Configure Focus Issues

You can manage Focus issues at SEO > Optimize > Issues and Recommendations.

Click on the Focus issues tab.
To select issues you'd like to focus click on the button Manage focus Issues.
Click Expand all to see issues that can be added.
Select your Focus issues.
Click on Save Focus Issues.

Prioritize Focus Issues

Once added you can prioritize issues to be addressed using the following sorting options:

Highest Impact: Fixing these issues will raise your SEO score by the most number of points.
Quick Wins: Easy-to-fix issues that will add easy points to your score.
Number of Occurrences: Issues that occur most frequently. These may be simple fixes in template files.
Customized: Use the table header filtering options to sort the issues.

Additional Information

If you have questions regarding your subscription or want to upgrade, please contact your Customer Success Manager directly or submit a ticket.

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