SEO Checklist - A Must Formula for All!

An SEO Checklist for your Website:

• Make sure your site URL has got your main keyword or related one in it. Try to get a .com if possible. Go for a .net or other domain names only if you get your full keyword without any dashes in it.

• When your site is ready, submit it to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. Consider also submitting to other search engine but most of them are powered by these four leading search engines. Submit also your site to reputable high PR web directories, open directories, yellow pages and social bookmarking sites such as delicious, furl, etc.

• Submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com (sitemap for search engines usually in XML format)

• Create unique and rich content sites. Avoid duplicate content. Do not create multiple pages, sub-domains, domains, mirror sites or sites with different domain names but same content.

• Check your keywords and make sure they are relevant and actually are contained in your site. Avoid keywords stuffing.

• Use text instead of images in your content, links and important subjects. Avoid Flash.

• Make your TITLE and ALT tags descriptive, simple and keyword rich. Avoid irrelevant and repeated keywords.

• Title tag should be 60-80 characters maximum length.

• Meta tag description should be 160-180 characters including spaces. (about 25-30 words). Meta Tag keywords must be 15-20 words maximum.

• Optimize Pages with Headings (H1, H2, H3..) containing your site's primary keywords.

• Validate your w3c CSS and HTML. Check for errors and broken links.

• If your site contains dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), make sure you use SEO friendly URLs. Search engines' spiders having difficulty indexing dynamic pages.

• Maximum links per page must be fewer than 20. Avoid the risk of being flagged as link farm by search engines.

• In robots.txt file allow search bots (good ones) to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site.

• Check your web server/host if it supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. It tells search engines whether your content has changed since last crawled your site. It will save you bandwidth, resources and avoid server overload.

• Do not attempt to present different content to search engines than what you show to your site visitors. Do not use hidden text and links. Show to search engines what you show to your visitors. It will greatly affect your site's reputation.

• Avoid black hat tricks and exploiting loop holes to improve search engines ranking.

• Avoid links to bad neighborhood such as web spammers, link farms, phishing, hacker, crack, gambling and scam sites. Linking to them will greatly affect your search engine rankings.

• Do not attempt to join in link schemes, excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging and link exchange web rings.

• Do not use unauthorized programs or online tools to submit your site, check page rankings and other automated queries. Avoid the risk of being flagged as spam.

• Do not attempt to create pages that contain phishing, scam, viruses, Trojans, backdoors, spyware, adware and other malicious programs.

• Improve your link building. Link to high PR websites, quality of relevant links are far more important than quantity. Links will greatly improve your site's visibility, popularity and rankings. Search engines consider links as votes to your site.

• Check your page link structure. Every page should be reachable by a single static text link.

• Be extra careful in purchasing SEO services. Some uses illegal and questionable ways to improve rankings.

• Do not create sites that contain purely affiliate links and no valuable content that are useful to the users.


Disclaimer: I didn't write this information. Got from a publicly available free SEO guide. If something is wrong wit the given information, I'm not responsible for that. For people who want to see the complete guide, refer the thread SEO Traffic Formula

 

A very useful stuff for webmasters. Appreciate it. Going through the details will definitely give some optimization helps. Thank you.

 

Nice list..

 

Nice to hear that. Yeah, do's don't do's checklists are always useful for search engine optimization. Especially when the competition is very tough. Cheers!

 

Great writeup. Its always helpful to have a list in front of you to make sure you have not forgotten anything.

 

This is the best advice for the beginners in SEO. I would like to follow this to my website.

 

Good basic seo tips for beginners.

 

Yes, it's always necessary to do a last check even if we are so confident that we didn't miss anything. I always prefer to go through a check list. Glad to know that there are many people who follow this.

 

This is a really helpful guide for those who want to review there SEO work...

 

Many thanks for this guide!

 

Yes, to make successful search engine optimization campaigns we must go through a checklist whenever we complete each task. This is really a working strategy. Glad that you guys found it useful. Thanks.

 

Nice! Very helpful for newbies and advanced SEOers.

 

Thank you very much for the advice. It surely has been quite helpful

 

Thanks for sharing..really helpfull..

 

good for beginner like me . thank u

 

very helpful for me! Thanks for sharing this one.

 

Great list. Thanks for the tips.

 

I love lists like this - keeps the sheep in line and will leave them wondering my site is outranking theirs...

 

Glad to hear that. It'd be great if you could also share your experience with your sites applying these..

 

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