The Essential SEO Checklist
Whether you’re creating a new site or refreshing your existing website, print and save this handy checklist to guide you through the SEO process.
Before you start
- Decide on your goals for your SEO effort
- Brainstorm a list of potential keywords
- Use keyword research tools (link to KW article) to narrow down the keyword list
- Choose 1-5 keywords per page
Optimize tags and headings
- Add/optimize title tags
- Add/optimize headings (one H1 per page; no lower than <H3>)
- Add/optimize keyword tag (5-10 keywords)
- Add/optimize description tag (40-140 characters long)
- Add/Optimize Image ALT Tags
Edit content
- Optimize current content (1-5 relevant keywords per page)
- Develop new content (300-500 words per page)
Optimize links
- Add/optimize internal links
- Make sure internal links work
- Use linking strategies (link to articles on linking) to build links
Improve navigation
- Use ALT tags for image-based navigation
- Add/optimize site map
Want to know more? Check out our SEO tutorials page.
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Hey Nice post! Simply curious, how effective is search engine optimisation in terms of promoting an offline product or service. I see pages on a regular basis that promote a web based product (e-book, amazon.com and many others), but when I want to promote say a pizza place – is the net an efficient approach to do this? Are you aware of any examples of this? Anyway, thanks prematurely for any help. 🙂
Hi Abbie,
As long as your pizza place has a website, it’s absolutely an effective approach! I can’t say I’d advise it if you didn’t have any online presence for the businesses you are trying to promote, but then everyone should have a website, so build one with Yola.com and then direct traffic there! 🙂