SEO Checklist

Have you created a new Google Account and Email address for your site?

Have you installed Google Analytics?

Have you installed Google Webmaster Tools?

Have you installed Bing Webmaster Tools?

Using WordPress? Have you installed Google Analytics for WordPress and SEO for WordPress?

Have you checked Google Webmaster Tools for 404 / 500 errors, duplicate content, missing titles and other technical errors that Google has found?

Have you used Browseo to find even more technical errors (the most common error people make are 302 redirects that should be 301 redirects)?

Have you used Google’s Keyword Research Tool? Be sure to consider searcher intent and difficulty, pick 1 keyword per page, and you’ll generally want to start with lower-volume keywords first.

Have you looked at competitor link profiles? This way you can see what kind of anchor text they’re using, as well as how and where they’ve been getting their links. Input competitor domains at Link Diagnosis, Open Site Explorer, Ahrefs, Majestic SEO and LipperHey

Have you incorporated your primary keyword (or something close) into your page URL?

Are all of your title tags 70 characters or less? Title tags over 70 will be truncated in results.

Are all of your meta description tags 156 characters or less? Meta description tags over 156 will be truncated in results.

Have you used only one H1 tag? Is it before any (H2, H3, H4…) tags? Is your keyword in the tag?

Do you have a healthy amount of search engine-accessible text on your site? My recommendation is at least 100 words, because you want to give search engines an opportunity to understand what the topic of your page is. You can still rank with less, and you don’t ever want to put unnecessary text on your site, but I recommend not creating a new page unless you have roughly 100 words worth of content.

Do your images have descriptive ALT tags and filenames? Search engines “see” images by reading the ALT tag and looking at file names, among other factors. Try to be descriptive when you name your images.Don’t overdo it! Being spammy about this can trigger an over-optimization penalty.

Are you linking to your internal pages in an SEO-friendly way? Are you describing the page your linking to in the anchor text, so that both users and search engines understand what it’s about? I recommend not using anchor text in your global nav because it can look like over-optimization. Stick to in-content links instead.


Have you made sure your site isn’t creating any duplicate content? Utilize 301 redirects, canonical tags or use Google Webmaster Tools to fix any dupicate content that might be indexing and penalizing your site.

Are you using absolute URLs in your code? Some CMS platforms give you the option. Use absolute URLs instead of relative ones.

Have you checked your site speed with Google Page Speed Tools?

Have you created an XML sitemap and submitted it to Google and Bing Webmaster Tools? Use XML-Sitemaps.com or the Google XML Sitemaps WordPress Plugin.

Have you created a Robots.txt file and submitted it in Google and Bing Webmaster Tools?

Have you claimed your business / website username on other major networks for reputation management reasons? Not only do you want to make sure no one else gets your account name, but you can often “own” all the results on the first page of a search for your brand if you’re a new website or company. Here is the URL structure of some of the major networks (I’ve avoided linking directly to sign up pages because they keep changing):

· hxxp://xxx.twitter.com/brand-name
· hxxp://xxx.facebook.com/brand-name
· hxxp://xxx.yelp.com/biz/brand-name
· hxxp://xxx.youtube.com/user/brand-name
· hxxp://xxx.linkedin.com/in/brand-name
· hxxp://brand-name.wordpress.com/
· hxxp://brand-name.tumblr.com/
· hxxp://pinterest.com/brand-name/
· hxxp://xxx.hulu.com/profiles/brand-name
· hxxp://technorati.com/people/brand-name
· hxxp://about.me/brand-name
· hxxp://brand-name.posterous.com/
· hxxp://profile.typepad.com/brand-name
· hxxp://xxx.squidoo.com/lensmasters/brand-name
· hxxp://xxx.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/brand-name
· hxxp://xxx.etsy.com/people/brand-name
· hxxp://en.gravatar.com/brand-name
· hxxp://xxx.scribd.com/brand-name
· hxxp://brand-name.livejournal.com/
· hxxp://brand-name.hubpages.com/
· hxxp://xxx.flickr.com/photos/brand-name/
· hxxp://photobucket.com/user/brand-name/profile/

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