When you start a new website it's important to check a few main facts to get your seo efforts into the right direction. Our starter checklist helps you to develop a successful website.
- make sure every page has a unique page title and meta description
- Do you have permalinks enabled? Avoid urls with underscores. Use htaccess to rebuild a seo friendly url structure
- Merge css and js script files to speed up the loading time.
- decide for a domain property. read more: http://www.seocheck.io/page/www-and-non-www-domain
- submit your site to google webmaster console https://search.google.com/search-console
- submit your sitemap to google webmaster console
- have you registered similar TDL domains to avoid brand hijacking?
- Is your server optimized for fast loading pages and located in the country where most of your traffic will come from? Test it here: google pagespeed insights
- Make your site look great on mobile and tablets
- research your main keywords
- Load google webfonts in footer for pagespeed reasons: https://www.lockedownseo.com/load-google-fonts-asynchronously-for-page-speed/
- let friends and collegues visit your site and ask for improving usability. Are they stuck somewhere?
- Do you have analytics tracking installed?
- have a plan how to promote your website and build links
- create social media accounts for your site and become an authority in your niche
- regularly work on your on-site seo
- track, test, analyze, improve everything
- check for broken links on your site
- check for dublicate content
- create a robots.txt file
- consider a content delivery network (CDN) to improve site loading speed?