I thought I'll start creating a SEO checklist for my personal and whoever likes to reference this, at the moment itd quite small but will add more and more over time.
General site structure
- "keywords" meta tag - google ignores
- h1 tag - descriptive term
- description meta tag -
- friendly url - that describes the page hint: should be close to H1 tag
- Keep content as high as possible
- Vary the media
- Add alt tags to all picture
- If using flash add spiderable content of what the flash content should have
Making google happy
More techie stuff
- Robot.txt
- Sitemap.xml - generate automatically
- rel="Nofollow" - add to outbound links which you do not want the search engine to give weight or scrae through
- When using ajax to update content, make sure we can degrade to non-javascript mode as I do not believe the spiders render the page to figure out what content will appear
Content guide
- html site guide
- Privacy policy
Tools
- Googleweb master
- http://www.pluginseo.com/
- majesticseo.com - report on backlinks
- ubervu.com - tracking how people respond to your website. Helps with building relationships and back linking further?
Other
- Backlinks - get other sites to create a link to your site
Nice start! Looking forward to the rest. I've always meant to get a list made up so that I never miss any.
Just updated to try split up the seo stuff into different areas and started adding more. Come back soon!
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