10 Minutes SEO Checklist to review your SEO Considerations

September 11th, 2008

Posted in Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization | 3 Comments »


This Simple SEO checklist will help you to follow steps to rank your site in major search engines

You just need to spend 10 minutes to review your site with below SEO checklist. If you can mark “yes” to most of the SEO considerations then your site will be having a reasonable traffic which can be developed further by consulting an SEO professional or by going through some good practical SEO techniques



S.No


SEO
Considerations



Met? (Yes/No)

 

Page Titles & Heading

 

1

Does the Site has different page titles for at least the main sections (preferably each page)

 
2

Are HTML text headings used rather than images?

 
3

Does the Page uses <h1> tags that preferably match page title and are located as far to the top and left of page as possible

 
4 Does the headings made bold and uses a style sheet  
5 Does the Title seems to be meaningful and enticing as a click able link in search engine results  
 

Site Platform & Coding

 
6 Is the Primary content on site is readable by a search engine and avoids use of un-index able technology/coding language to display (e.g. Flash, JavaScript, Images for text etc)  
7 Does the Site avoids use of frames or iframes to display content  
8 Does the Site avoids use of redirection scripts  
 

Meta Information

 
9 Does the Meta keywords and description for each page contain less than 64 words  
10 Are the Meta keywords and description relevant to each pages specific content  
11 Are the Meta keywords and description listed in order of importance not arbitrarily  
12 Does the Meta keywords and description include singular, plural and variations in spelling of core keywords  
13 Is the Meta description tag present and properly filled (not stuffed!) with keywords?  
 

Content Imaging & Graphics

 
14 Do you use a naming strategy for images including appropriate keywords linked to the page theme  
15 Does all the clickable images have alt tags that include appropriate keywords  
16 Is the relevant key phrase appropriately sprinkled throughout the page’s text content?  
17 Have we Specified image height and width for all images?  
 

Navigation

 
18 Does all pages be able to be reached via text links. Dynamic and exploding menus can often not be read by search engines  
19 Do we Use anchor tags wrapped around keywords for long pages  
20 Does all the pages have header and footer links  
21 Does the site has sitemap will all the navigational links  

And in addition above simple SEO checklist will be very much helpful for designers who tries to follow best SEO design practices Cheers :)

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3 Responses to “10 Minutes SEO Checklist to review your SEO Considerations”

  1. Thanks Jagadeesh. Is this check list based on your experience or any standards based? Also do you have a Checklist for PPC?

  2. Yes, the checklist is based on both SEO standards and my experience and i can write a checklist for PPC too in next upcoming post :)

  3. Thanks Jagadeesh, Thanks alot for your time, Its Excellent!…

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