Technical and SEO audit of the site on OpenCart + recovery
Project description:
A complete technical and SEO audit of the site on the OpenCart CMS is required. After the change of the employee who had access to the site, it is necessary to check the correctness of operation, security, possible unauthorized changes, and restore the stable operation of the site and sales.
Scope of work
1️⃣ Security and access
• Check all administrators in OpenCart
• Check FTP / hosting / database for external or unnecessary accesses
• Check third-party scripts, APIs, cron jobs
• Search for backdoors, suspicious inserts (eval, base64, hidden redirects)
2️⃣ Files and code
• Check .htaccess files, index.php, core files of OpenCart
• Analyze the dates of the last changes to the files
• Detect and remove harmful or suspicious edits
• Document all found changes
3️⃣ OpenCart settings
• Check products (status, prices, stock)
• Check categories (whether they are disabled, hidden)
• Check SEO URLs (pretty URLs)
• Check meta tags
• Analyze installed modules (especially SEO, cache, redirects)
4️⃣ SEO audit
• Check robots.txt, sitemap.xml
• Check canonical, noindex / nofollow
• Analyze Google Search Console:
• indexing
• errors
• possible manual penalties
5️⃣ Recovery and protection
• Restore the correct operation of the site
• Eliminate all found issues
• Basic setup of protection against repeated intrusions
• Recommendations for further security
6️⃣ Reporting
• Detailed report listing issues
• List of completed work
• Recommendations
✅ Expected result
• The site operates stably and securely
• No external accesses and harmful edits
• SEO settings are brought to a correct state
• No technical reasons for a drop in sales
