Showing posts with label Seo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seo. Show all posts

SEO Checklist: 60 essential checks before launching a website

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Launching a brand new website or publishing a new site version is typically a straight forward process given that it is well planned and well organized. Failing to take into account all the known ranking factors or failing to build an SEO-friendly website can lead to low rankings in Search Results. As a result before publishing a website, the Webmasters and the SEO professionals should validate that they are aligned with the best current practices and that they have not made important mistakes in their SEO campaigns. In this article we provide a detailed SEO checklist in which we have the most essential checks that one should make before publishing a website online.
 
 
 Keyword Optimization
 
Having well written/optimized texts and using the right keywords right is extremely important in SEO. Make sure that before launching your website, you can give a positive answer to all the questions below:
1. Did I conductive an extensive keyword research? Did I find all the popular terms that are relevant to my industry/niche/website?
2. Did I choose the targeted keywords wisely? Have I made sure that I can compete for the selected terms?
3. Did I write unique, high quality texts that will be considered useful both by the Users and by the Search Engines? Have I performed a spelling check to all of my texts?
4. Do I have unique titles and descriptions in all the pages of the website?
5. Did I add all the important keywords in the page Titles, the Meta-Descriptions and the HTML Headings (H1-H6)? Have I optimized my texts for those keywords?
6. Are the Titles and Meta-Descriptions compelling for the users? Will they click on my page if it appears on Search Engine Results?
7. Did I use keyword combinations that are likely to be searched by users? Have I optimized my pages for those keyword combinations? Did I incorporate in the text synonyms that are likely to be used in the queries?
8. Do I have a descriptive alt text in all the images of my website?
9. Have I ensured that the content is not over-optimized, that there is no hidden text in the pages and that no Keyword Stuffing techniques are used?
10. Did I keep my pages targeted by focusing on a small number of keywords per page?
11. Have I kept the content of my pages relevant to my website’s theme? Am I sure that I have not optimized my pages for irrelevant terms?
12. Are the most important keywords of my page in the beginning of the document?
13. Did I make sure that my pages will not compete each other on SERPs and that I do not have lots of different pages optimized for exactly the same keywords?
Note that by using SEO Tools you can speed up your checks. Analyze your pages by using the Keyword Analyzerin order to ensure that your pages are targeted and optimized for your selected keywords. Additionally theSERP Analysis tool can help you analyze and evaluate the competition and see if it is possible to compete for the selected terms.
 
 
Website Development
 
 
The techniques that are used in order to develop a website are extremely important and they affect the SEO. So ask yourself the following questions and make sure you have done everything properly.
14. Is my website well coded? Is it cross-browser? Have I made sure that my pages contain no broken HTML that is likely to affect the analysis of the site?
15. Have I developed my website by using Search Engine friendly technologies? Is someone able to access my website without requiring him to use Flash, Silverlight, JavaScript/AJAX, Java applets, frames etc?
16. Is my menu visible from all the pages and is it developed in HTML so that the search engines can find the rest of the pages?
17. Is my site easy to be crawled? Do I provide text links for all the pages of my website?
18. Do I use properly the meta-robots tags?
19. Did I take steps to eliminate duplicate content by focusing on the Link Architecture, by doing 301 redirects when required and by using proper canonical tags?
20. Did I make sure that I don’t use unnecessary or incorrect HTTP redirections?
21. Do I redirect the non-www version of my website to the www version or vise versa?
22. What is the loading time of my website? Have I done everything I can to reduce it?
23. Am I certain that I do not do Cloaking and that I have no Doorway pages?
Note that you can check several of the above (HTML Validation, Meta-Robots usage, Spider View, Page Analysis etc) by using the Web SEO Analysis tool. Additionally you can check the similarity percentage between two pages by using the Duplicate Content Tool.
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The Number One Rule of SEO

Monday, December 14, 2009


That might sound like a silly question – what should be the number one rule when it comes to search engine optimization? However, everyone has their own ideas. For some it relates to keywords, for others, on-site optimization or off-site optimization (or link building). It may sound like I am repeating the same philosophy all the time – here is a different twist.

When it comes to SEO, every site, every business is unique in every respect. They are have their own set of unique requirements and their own unique blend of options that can help lift them to the front page of the search results. While there may be a range of basic white hat optimization strategies that every site can implement, once you get past the basics it is a different story.

Some businesses can succeed with pure organic search results others may need the help of pay per click advertising. Another business may find that social media marketing through the use of videos delivers more and better targeted visitors than organic search on its own.

To be successful online now you need a blended strategy that uses every available channel promote your business. You also need a website that fulfills all the requirements needed to be successful – that includes design, content and usability. A mistake can be to try and copy what another business has done – it often doesn’t migrate to your business because you haven’t taken the same direction with other strategies.

So the number one rule (for lack of a better phrase) is that each business is different and each business requires a different set of strategies to succeed online.

The 5 Basic Rules of Seo Copywriting

Thursday, November 26, 2009


SEO copywriting is a writing technique used for producing readable and persuasive website content. With this technique we produce quality texts for the visitors of the website and at the same time, we target to specific search terms in order to rank highly in the search engine results. Finding the perfect balance between having the correct keyword density and an engaging text for the visitors is not an easy task.

Search Engine Optimization improves the volume of traffic that a website receives from the organic results of search engines. In order to have a successful SEO campaign, you need to make sure you are optimized for the different factors that search engines use in order to determine the relevancy of a site. One of the key factors of success is the quality content and thus the effective SEO copywriting.

Here are the 5 basic rules you need to follow while writing your texts:

1. Conduct Keyword Research

Conduct a keyword research to determine the exact keywords and keyword phrases that should be incorporated into your website content. Search for terms that your customers might search when they look for products & services like yours. Check the popularity of each keyword by comparing the number of results in Google Search and the Global Monthly Search Volume from Google Adwords.

2. Write Descriptive Texts

Usually the pages that do not contain enough text do not appear on the first results. Always try to write quality content and have more than 250 words per page.

3. Avoid Duplicate Content

Duplicate content is a major issue for sites like online stores, news portals etc. If two pages look very much alike, Google removes one of them from the index. This means that it deletes pages that contain very few or not unique text. Thus always try to write unique, quality and descriptive text for each page. You can check your site for duplicate content by using the tool Duplicate Content Check.

4. Mind the Keyword Usage

Use a group of terms that share a common word or phrase to optimize one page. It will allow the search engines to consider the entire page relevant to the common theme.

Add two, or at most three targeted search terms in each page and place them strategically within the text. Be careful not to insert more than two or three keywords per page that can divert the search engines’ ability to recognize the most relevant phrases.

5. Keyword Optimization – KeywordRank

Incorporate the selected keywords in each page title, HTML headings (H1-6), meta description and meta keywords. The page title is the one appearing in the top bar of the browser window. It is also the one it appears in the Search Results, so it must attract the user to click on it. The H1-6 tags are the headings of the page’s paragraphs. The meta description is a meta-data field appearing sometimes in the search results as snippets. The meta keywords have not any significant value for SEO these days, nevertheless you can use this meta-tag and include the important keywords of your site.
Keyword density should be higher for the most important terms of your page. Additionally in order to be sure that you have optimized for the correct terms you need to find the KeywordRank (KR) of each keyword of your page. The KR is a special rank that measures how optimized a term is inside the page. You can use the Keyword Analyzer tool to perform such an analysis. Make sure you keep the KR relatively high for your important keywords and low the unimportant ones.
In addition to the above, the most important is to create a copywrite appealing to the visitors-consumers. Don’t forget that they are your website’s end users and they need to discover your products or services uniqueness, through a comprehensive and attractive website.