On-Site SEO Checklist

Tired of wanting to learn Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and every time you go to read an article, it’s like trying to read the instructions to putting together a model car?

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Search Engine Optimization consist of two very radical marketing factors. Those two factors include on-site optimization and off-site optimization.

Today we have for you a easy to follow, comprehensive, on-site SEO checklist. There’s no beating around the bush. There’s no endless blabbing about irrelevant non-sense. I’ve created a small, easy to follow checklist — for those of you who are ready to make changes to your on-site SEO — today.

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The Search Simplicity On-Site SEO Checklist

Content

Correct grammar and spelling
Content offers real value to viewer – unique or useful
Research keywords that people would use to find your page
Page content contains at least 350 words
Content contains specific words and phrases found from keyword research
Content still sounds natural and isn’t stuffed with keywords and phrases
Page viewers stick around to view the page content – low bounce rate
Page content is up to date and new
Content reflects recent searching trends

HTML

Page title is unique
Page title is descriptive of what is found in the content
Page meta description contains helpful indication of what is found on that page
Page HTML contains main header (H1) tag
Page HTML contains subhead header (H2, H3) tags
Page HTML contains helpful rich snippets for better search listings

Architecture

HTML and XML sitemaps are submitted to search engines
Crawl efficiency is optimized with use of internal link structures and robots.txt
Site is not direct duplication of any other page or site on the internet
URL parameters don’t reflect duplicate content
301 redirects on old/duplicate content
Correct canonical tags used for true duplicate content
Site optimized to load as quickly as possibly
URLs are descriptive – contain words found in page content
URLs aren’t too long
Google is aware of mobile version of site

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