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title: "SEO navigation"
date: "2026-03-26T10:28:44+00:00"
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url: "/web-governance/seo-navigation"
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Introduction
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This document provides information about the navigation within Acquia Web Governance SEO.

1.  Log in to your Web Governance instance. For more information, visit [Log in and access](https://docs.acquia.com/node/94751).
2.  Select the domain you want to work with.
3.  Click **SEO** (a graph icon) on the main menu bar.

Left menu
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Select an option from the menu on the left to navigate further:

*   Summary
*   Pages with opportunities
*   SEO checkpoints

**Summary**
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This is the landing page for SEO. 

The page has the following sections:

*   Most common opportunities found
    
    This section lists the most common opportunities discovered on your site and the number of pages potentially affected by the issues. From this view, it is possible to ignore a particular issue or to view the affected pages. The opportunities can include:
    
    *   Too many internal links
    *   Header checks
    *   Images that have no ALT text
    *   META description text length
    *   Title checks.
*   On the same row as an issue, you can select **Ignore this Check** or **View Pages**.
    
    Note
    
    Checks that are set to _Ignore_ are permanently omitted from future scans.
    
*   SEO diagnostics
    *   This section provides an overview of the SEO diagnostics compliance rates.
        *   A chart shows the percentage of pages that are compliant with all SEO checks, the number of SEO opportunities found, and the total number of pages with SEO opportunities.
        *   **The Industry Average** shows the industry-wide average of compliance. The results appear in the _SEO Diagnostics_ section.
            
            For more information, visit [Industry average](/node/58976).
            
    *   A line graph details the number of opportunities for improvment that are found across the domain, when they were discovered, their priority level, and the pages where they are present.
    *   **Show History**: Click the link for a view of SEO diagnostics over time.
*   Affected pages by priority
    *   **Affected pages by priority** shows the distribution of SEO levels across the customers site. These results are broken up into high, medium, and low priority, and well as technical SEO issues.
        
        For more information, visit [Issue priority](/node/58621).
        

Left menu
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The menu on the left provides the following viewing options:

*   **Summary**: Select this option to return to the SEO dashboard.
    
    ![The SEO Dashboard. The sections are described in the document text.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/4f0cf287-eb2d-4b20-9a57-b3dead536a5a/web/WebGov_SEODashboard-SearchEngineOptimizationSummary.png?w=720&itok=ntTTrkmh)
    
*   **Pages with opportunities**
*   **SEO Checkpoints**

### Pages with opportunities

This page provides information about the website pages with SEO opportunities.

![The Pages with Opportunities page on a sample website. The fields are described in the document text.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/6bf6d6ab-dae3-4419-ab0e-0fcc1a0c0d59/web/Mon_SEO-PagesWithOpportunities.png)

From the menu on the left, select **Pages with Opportunities**.

*   This page is a list of web pages that have possible SEO opportunities. The columns in the table are:
    *   **Title and URL** for each page with an SEO opportunity.
    *   **Notifications**: The number of notifications on the page.
    *   **Priority**: The priority level of the issues. For more information, visit [Issue priority](/node/58621).
    *   **Views**: The number of views the page has received.
    *   **Open page details** (pages icon): View all issues for the page.
        
        ![The Page Details for a page  from a sample site. The fields shown are described in the document text.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/9665dbe6-cc3e-4529-816d-b4c2c942ec9c/web/Mon_SEO-LeftMenu-PagesWithOpportunities-OpenPageDetails.png)
        
        *   Click **Action** and select:
            *   **Ignore on this page**: Ignore the check for this page only.
            *   **Mark as Fixed**: Mark the issue as fixed. _Note_: The issue cannot be opened in the browser extension after this option is applied.
            *   **Ignore this check for this domain**: Ignore the check for the entire domain.
                
                Note
                
                The difference between Mark as Fixed and Mark as Ignored is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
                
    *   **Redirect to the page**: Click to navigate to the URL and view the page as a visitor.

### SEO Checkpoints

This page shows the number of pages that are compliant with all SEO checks, as well as the overall number of SEO opportunities found across the entire domain and the number of pages with SEO opportunities.

![The location of the SEO checkpoints option in the menu on the left side of the page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/e8242d9c-29b1-4f1c-bcc9-257b18f9a0f5/web/Mon_Opt_SEO-LeftMenu-SEOCheckpoints.png)

Select **SEO Checkpoints** from the menu on the left. The page has the following sections:

*   **High Priority**:
    *   **Issue**: The name of the issue.
    *   **Ignore**: Click to ignore the issue. The issue will not be flagged in future scans.
    *   **Compliance**: Percentage of compliance for the issue.
    *   **Pages**: Number of pages this error is found on. Click to open the page view.
*   **Medium Priority**:
    *   **Issue**: The name of the issue.
    *   **Ignore**: Click to ignore the issue. The issue will not be flagged in future scans.
    *   **Compliance**: Percentage of compliance for the issue.
    *   **Pages**: Number of pages this error is found on.
*   **Low Priority**:
    *   **Issue**: The name of the issue.
    *   **Ignore**: Click to ignore the issue. The issue will not be flagged in future scans.
    *   **Compliance**: Percentage of compliance for the issue.
    *   **Pages**: Number of pages this error is found on.
*   **Technical SEO Issues**:
    *   **Issue**: The name of the issue.
    *   **Ignore**: Click to ignore the issue. The issue will not be flagged in future scans.
    *   **Compliance**: Percentage of compliance for the issue.
    *   **Pages**: Number of pages this error is found on.

For more information, visit [Issue priority](/node/58621).