ultimate SEO list

Posted on April 13th, 2010 by thiswayup.
Categories: dev.

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

• Optimise for speed

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

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