SEO Checklist
SEO has many variables that are important and shouldn’t be overlooked. We put together a SEO checklist list of the top SEO components that will get your website on the right path.
| Basic SEO List | |
|---|---|
| Information Theme: | Create a website clearly focused on your industry. The Search Engines will categorize you appropriately. |
| UVP: | Unique Value Prepossession- something that the clients can’t get anywhere else. This is what sets your company apart from the competition. |
| Write Unique Content: | Write interesting unique content for each page of the website. |
| Keywords: | Create a keyword list (include keyword phrases). |
| Competitors: | Monitor your industry’s competitors on the first page of Google. Take notes. |
| Sales Pitch: | Use your Unique Offer to and keywords to create your list. |
| The URL: | Put the keyword in your website URL. |
| Title Tag: | Add your sales pitch in the title tag. Use up to 50 characters. This will be used in the title tag in the search engine results. |
| Meta-Description: | Use your sales pitch in the meta-description tag. Use up to 250 characters. This will be used in the description tag in the search engine results. |
| Submit to Directories: | Submit your website to Yahoo!, Google, and DMOZ |
| Meta-Keywords: | Put a few keywords in the meta-keyword tag. |
| File Names: | Use your keywords for your file names. |
| Logo File Name: | Use the Keywords in the logo image file names. For example, images/seo-services.html |
| ALT Tags: | Place your sales pitch in the logo’s ALT tag. |
| Headings: | Use an H1 heading tag on the front page. Use the main keyword phrase as the first word in the heading. |
| Body Text: | Put the main keyword a the the beginning of the body text. Put several keywords in the bold or italics. |
| Links: | Put the keywords in the link. Example: Read more on <a href=”http://www.boastingbiz.com/” target=”_blank”>SEO Fort Lauderdale</a>. |
| Cross Links: | Send a summary of your web page to other relevant web pages. If it’s useful content, they’ll link to you. |
| Site Map: | Create a plain text site map that list all of the web pages, Place a plain text link to it on the index page. |
| Other Tools: | If relevant, use blogs, Google Maps, Google AdWords Tool, SEO Moz. |
| Validate the Code: | Use validation tools to check the HTML code and links. |
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Created by Kevin Dorival, SEO Fort Lauderdale
