1. Have you created a new Google Account and Email address for your site?
2. Have you installed Google Analytics?
3. Have you installed Google Webmaster Tools?
4. Have you installed Bing Webmaster Tools?
Using WordPress? Have you installed Google Analytics for WordPress and SEO for
WordPress?
5. Have you checked Google Webmaster Tools for 404 / 500 errors, duplicate content,
missing titles and other technical errors that Google has found?
6. Have you used SEO Browser to find even more technical errors (the most common error people make are 302 redirects that should be 301 redirects)?
6. Have you checked to find any broken links you might have?
7. 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.
8. 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
9. Have you incorporated your primary keyword (or something close) into your page URL?
10. Are all of your title tags 70 characters or less? Title tags over 70 will be truncated in
results.
11.Are all of your meta description tags 156 characters or less? Meta description tags over
156 will be truncated in results.
12. Have you used only one H1 tag? Is it before any (H2, H3, H4…) tags? Is your keyword
in the tag?
13. 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.
14.Did you use synonyms in your copy by using the “~keyword” advanced search operator?
Remember: synonyms are great, and using natural language that’s influenced by keyword
research (rather than just pure keywords) is highly encouraged!
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Have you started off-page optimization and began building links? This is the hardest,
most important aspect of SEO!
18. 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 duplicate content that might be
indexing and penalizing your site.
19. Are you using absolute URLs in your code? Some CMS platforms give you the option.
Use absolute URLs instead of relative ones.
20. Have you checked your site speed with Google Page Speed Tools?
21. 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.
22. Have you created a Robots.txt file and submitted it in Google and Bing Webmaster
Tools?
23. 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):
http://www.twitter.com/brand-name
http://www.facebook.com/brand-name
http://www.yelp.com/biz/brand-name
http://www.youtube.com/user/brand-name
http://www.linkedin.com/in/brand-name
http://brand-name.wordpress.com/
http://brand-name.tumblr.com/
http://pinterest.com/brand-name/
http://about.me/brand-name
http://profile.typepad.com/brand-name
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/brand-name
http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/brand-name
http://www.etsy.com/people/brand-name
http://en.gravatar.com/brand-name
http://www.scribd.com/brand-name
http://brand-name.livejournal.com/
http://brand-name.hubpages.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brand-name/
http://photobucket.com/user/brand-name/profile/
24. Is your site mobile friendly? Double check it!
25. Have you setup social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+?
26. Have you added Authorship Markup to your site?
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