HOLA !! Step by Step Ultimate SEO Checklist is Here
Follow a Step by Step Ultimate SEO Checklist to have best results for your website. Have tried them all ??
Competitor Research :-
- List top competitor on SERPs for keywords
- Get competitor link profile and sources
Keyword Research :-
- Start with setting up a spreadsheet template
- Write the page’s title into the spreadsheet
- Search on google your first keyword
- Substitute in synonyms
- Get some keywords idea from the Wikipedia article
- Use some tools like Uber suggest to generate keyword variations
- Try searching in Q&A sites like Quora
- Search Board Reader
- Reverse lookup with Ahrefs Site explorer, Google Keyword Planner
- For long tail keywords use Long tail pro, Keyword Shitter
- Remove duplicate keywords
- Remove the keyword that are not relevant with your business
- Remove high competition keywords (SeoQuake, Ahrefs keyword difficulty score)
- Remove low volume keywords if there are better options
- Copy remaining keywords into Google keyword Planner
- Filter by search volume
Data gathering :-
- What’s the current status of the website vs its competitors
- Your business information Name , Address phone number , USP
- Activate Analytics on website traffic
- Crawl the complete website with a good tool like Screaming Frog
- Get existing back-links
Webmaster Tool
- Check for crawler errors
- Check if the sitemap has been submitted already or not
- Check HTML suggestion or improvement
On page
- Add XML sitemap
- Add navigation > Add menus > Use Breadcrumbs
- Add Robots.txt
- Check for canonical
- For Pagination : Add Rel = “ next ” and Rel = “ prev “
- Fix all problems found in Webmaster tool
- Meta Tags
- Title
- Have the keyword within the title
- Have the keyword within the within the H1 tag
- Check Meta tag
- Fix all pages missing Meta tags ( Stick with 60 character only)
- Fix all pages missing meta description (Stick with 150 character only)
- Fix all images missing Alt text
- Content
- Check the duplicate content
- Review visual design
- Use multimedia
- Optimize media size
- Add tags in media
- Schema
- Use LSI keywords
- Do internal linking
- Have quality outbound link
- Update content regularly
- Monitor bounce rate for content quality
- Externalize Code (CSS)
- Put primary keywords into the URL
- Use absolute URLs
- Simplify dynamic URLs with mod_re-write
- Use 301 redirects for rewritten URLs
- Set up www to non www redirect and vice versa
- Test site for current Schema
- Add markup for possible Schema (Logo , Articles etc )
- Use Schemaplugin.com for wordpress
Off page
- Setup Alert for your Brand
- Find unlinked URLs and brand mentions
- Do a link intersect between your competitors for priority links
- Use competitors research data to get links
- Check your content and see which is ranking, find competing sites for that and get their links
- Create social media profiles
- Join Pinterest and relevant group boards
- Broken link building
- Guest posting on influencer websites
- Blog commenting on websites to build relationship
- Look for quote directories
- Get on site that offer awards
- Contribute to newsletters
- Find event you can sponsor
- Submit to curating platforms ( Flipboard / Scoop.it/Alltop )
- Get on linkedin Pulse
- Build up relationships to get on big publisher websites
- Find community website such as kingged
- Share your content on Reddit and Stumbleupon
- Find sites using your images and ask them to link back
- Submit to slideshare
- Get on magazine and newspaper website
- Hashtags request
- Find Q&A site to build authority and links
- Be active on forums related to your business and answer relevant questions for link
- Keep up to date with latest Google guidelines
- Schedule check for you On page Seo
- Schedule check for you backlink profile
