Turkish Airlines Seo Analysis

   

 Turkish Airlines Google View


In search engines, your meeting point with the user will be the first google view. In this first stage, it is very important for you to be a professional to influence the user in the first impression.When we search for the brand, we see across with a plain and successful index.

Title and Meta descriptions

In the statement made by Google in 2009, it was announced that along with the meta keywords, the meta description is no longer included in the raking algorithm. If it does not affect the ranking algorithm, the meta description is an important element that attracts readers' attention in search results. Writing an interesting description is a very important detail for your pages to attract traffic.In addition , "Discover more than 120 countries with Turkish Airlines for a unique travel experience. Buy air tickets, book hotels and rent a car." It reflects its advertisement with meta description.

Titles are the most obvious tool that attracts users to your site in Google serp results. Although your page ranks high on search engine results pages, an uninteresting headline can be the decision factor for someone not clicking on your link.


When we examine the page source of Turkish airlines, Turkish airlines have successfully applied the title meta descriptions and meta keywords. The number of words is not high and it is used the brand and slogan together.

H- Use of Header

It was mentioned that the H tag should be used in the Webmaster Blog or other Google resources. However, there is no information on how many of which labels should be used. The reason for this is that the length of the written content can always vary. When we examine the titles of the Turkish airlines in the site, we see that the H-tag is not much in this case that the visual shares are high, so there wasn't much need.

For example in this page ; “Discover a world of special offers” is in H1 tag. “We are thinking about every step of your travel” is H2 tag. So, Heading h1 to h6 seems to be successful on the campaigns page

ALT Tags

The ALT tag has been used for the first time with HTML 2 and is still valid today. In order to include images and photos in Google's image search results, entering visual-related Alt tags in visual files will make you one step ahead of your competitors in SEO. Another benefit of the ALT tag is that when the visual file is inaccessible, the text of the added ALT tag appears on the screen.It is possible to see alt text to used by Turkish airlines web sites. Although there are visuals that do not need sub-descriptions throughout the page, there is harmony in the place that should be used.

XML.Sitemap and Robot.txt Files

Sitemaps are a way to report to Google pages we might not otherwise find on your site. In the simplest terms, an XML Sitemap (often called a Sitemap, with the first letters capitalized by S and H) is a list of pages on your website. Robots.txt is a guide file for Google Bots whose name is unchanged in the main directory of the site. So when Google Bots visit your site, if you have a file, it will enter the first Robots.txt file, otherwise your job will see some codes in the Robots.txt file and will understand where to index and not in line with these codes. As a result, Robots.txt is a must-have for Google bots. They are also available on Turkish Airlines web site.

Google Index

The fact that users view your webpage on search engines is called page index. Index is one of the Google tools. When you make your site for the first time, you can expect google bots to recognize you, or you can call bots to have your site indexed by Google.


Index of Turkish airlines web site on google, About 12.700.00 results found.

 

Canonical URL

 

It is a search engine friendly URL that you want search engines to see authoritarian. In other words, a canonical URL is the URL you want visitors to see. The webmaster who installed the plugin may not be aware of this situation, which usually occurs in connection with SEO plugins that place a default rel = canonical link. In cases where there are multiple rel = canonical expressions, Google will likely ignore all rel = canonical hints. All benefits that a valid rel = canonical expression can provide will be lost. Canonical URL is a tag that prevents the same content from being indexed with different URLs briefly and protects your site from Google penalties due to copy content problem.

In this image we get from the source of the Turkish airlines website, we see that to determined as the canonical link of the site. Turkish airlines solved this situation by defining more than one link as we have seen above.

Google Trends

With Google Trends, you can learn the search volumes of your target words in a comparative way with the knowledge of past search volumes. With this feature, which is free and publicly offered by Google, you can also see current search queries and follow the agenda. Trends, which takes data from Google, the search engine, is especially known for its year-end reports. At the end of each year, it brings together the most popular searches made in the country for a year.

'Thy' result is more than in these 4 words we are looking for ‘thy’,’fly ticket’,’Online checking thy’ and 'Miles and smiles'. Best result is ‘thy’ and 'Miles and smiles'  is a special passenger program of Turkish Airlines, has very low search results.

Mobil Compatibility


Nowadays, the number of portable devices has increased considerably. Therefore, mobile site compatibility will provide more success in reaching customers. The THY has a special mobile application. The data also show the compatibility score as 99/100 for mobil device web page.

 


Site Speed


Although the overall rating of the site looks good, it has shortcomings in terms of speed. Analysis values for Desktop show that it takes 40/100 and analysis value for 8/100 mobile site. For such a big company, we encounter a rather slow result. The site with low mobile speed and desktop speed needs to be improved. It seems that it needs serious development especially on the mobile side.

 

 

Language Options

 

We see that the language option specified is English, and when we look inside the site, the availability of many language options makes our site successful at a global level. Many languages are in the option such as German, French, Chinese and Russian are available on the site.

 

Broken Links and 404 Page

 

Broken link is any type of link that was previously available on a website but is currently unavailable. If clicking on a link redirects to the 404 error page, that is the broken link. In case of broken links, users and search engine spiders cannot navigate the site. THY has no broken link. therefore it does not exist on the 404 page.

Backlink Analysis



Backlink is a link to a website from another website. The number of backlinks and the quality of backlinks is an important criterion for the reliability of a website. The concept of backlink and its importance has been on our agenda with the success of Google. Google's famous PageRank algorithm is also an important discovery that calculates the impact coefficient of backlinks to a website. And thanks to this invention, Google started to show much more accurate results than other search engines and became the world's leading search engine. We can say that their backlinks should be high in number and quality. And this quality has a mathematical response, which has a significant impact on search results. 

Customer Relationship THY on Social Media

 

The company, which has great successes at home and abroad, has successfully advanced its customer relations management. The service that provides and the class to feels shows that it is the upper segment. As well as , The company, which is active on social media platforms, conducts customer relations in a respectable manner. They have 1.5 million followers on Twitter and 1.7 million followers on Instagram. The way of addressing to the customers is carried out in a more respectful and sensitive manner. They share their campaigns, social responsibility projects, advertisements and agenda status instantly with the right information content. For example, they share all kinds of information about the covid-19 outbreak in our world, especially their aviation impacts and updates on their flights.


Grades



 According to the data, the site with full score from the performance part. There is a need for improvement on mobile. Regarding seo and security, the data of the site is very weak. One reason for this is that Thy is unable to get full data in the site information evaluation tools, and it has a permission problem. According to the data, the rating for the large-scale airline company is very low. The situation is especially serious about security. This is a big deficit for thy, which people expect most.



In this picture, Seo note and reasons of this note are given. The reason for not scoring is because the site does not allow data index access.

Regarding the mobile page, it is determined that the readability of the Pages is low. Small font size is not suitable for small screen.

Security is really bad. According to the webgrader, Thy's website does not have a secure javascript library. On the other hand, it seems that not all resources are load over https.

In the light of this data, Website needs to increase the font sizes on the Mobile side. 12px or more is the recommended size. As for security, the pages need to be fully https converted and the JavaScript library should be deleted and updating with a secure package will solve the situations.