130 Technical SEO Tips For Your Website By Mike Carson|Tuesday, June 9, 2020|Tags: seo, strategy, web content, web design| View Larger Image Table of Contents 1Learn how these technical SEO tips can improve your search engine rankings to beat the competition.1. Images have Alt-text?2. Minimize JS, cookies, CSS, and images3. Analyze anchor text4. Does the currency reflects the target country5. Check for network and scripting errors6. Check for overuse of site-wide links7. Avoid stale pages8. Check for pages that need exclusion9. Is the website missing GA code on some pages?10. Check for blocking by X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header.11. Catalog target search modifiers (best, how-to, etc.)12. Checked for pagination problems13. Proper URL Canonicalization used?14. Does the website properly use permalinks?15. Page names and image names16. Check for mobile-friendliness17. Check for bad link anchor text like “click here.”18. Check for redirect chains19. Too many outbound dofollow links?20. Check Certificate expiration dates21. The main content is above the fold22. Check for polluted data from forms23. Check for a video sitemap?24. Is the website using a CMS25. Is the website using wildcards in subdomains?26. Check server headers.27. Check for problem HTTP Status Headers28. Ad Blockers30. Checked CSS Validation31. Optimal meta descriptions used?32. Google Page Speed Insights Evaluated?33. Check for canonical URL agreement34. Checked keyword usage in content?35. Checked for geo meta tags for local?36. Image sizes, images compressed37. Check for the text being used in images38. Check for footer issues.39. Check no follow no index page exclusions40. Check for trailing/ usage in URLs41. Latent Semantic Indexing Keywords in Content (LSI)42. 3rd party tracking43. Check server uptime stats?44. Checked for flash usage on the site?45. Check if there are silos for content?46. HTML validates?47. Ads are nofollowed48. Checked for hidden text?49. Check for user profile links50. SEO Robot51. Check for dynamic parameter order52. Favicon and touch icons in use?53. Cross-linking sister sites?54. Popups or popovers in use?55. Website use staging servers? Does Google index them?56. Breadcrumbs properly implemented?57. Are any pages more than three clicks away from the home page?58. Does the site use a common theme?59. Images are web optimized?60. Does the mobile site require mouseover events?61. Actual Page Size Calculated?62. Any pages driven by AJAX?63. Check for session IDs64. Web Server compression enabled65. Are subdomains being used?66. Checked for redirect chains67. URL structure is in the native language68. Check for default index document names69. Identify copyrights70. Get more backlinks out of GSC71. Checked Doc type is HTML572. Checked error page handling?73. HTTP Expires Headers74. Weak SSL Ciphers75. Check the topic hierarchy76. Is the website using a CDN77. Site tested with Google’s mobile testing tool?78. Check JS frameworks used79. Check for print version links80. Check average URL lengths?81. Site uses lazy load?82. Wikipedia Citations83. Checked for meta robots issues84. Checked for broken links?85. Checked for doorway pages?87. Check CSS frameworks used88. Check for too many remote includes89. Check for reciprocal links90. Checked for unused 3rd party code?91. Checked for external dofollow links?92. Check for SC: popular content?93. Check for infinite crawl issues94. rel=alternate to indicate mobile versions of pages95. Checked for Google and Bing image sitemaps?96. Check for all indexed subdomains97. Pages don’t query mixed secure/insecure assets.98. Check your website with mobile emulation99. Check for Ajax Usage100. Is your site linking to related sites?101. Checked for consistent use of capitalization in URL usage?102. Optimal URL formatting used?103. Are desktop versions canonical to mobile?104. Proper Doctype and encoding type used?105. Check for content being duplicated from one page to the next?106. Checked for unusual redirects: 302, 307, meta refresh, JS redirects107. Checked font usage for both unused fonts and inconsistencies?108. Reclaim 404 Error links109. Link protocols adapt for HTTPS access110. Check For Bad Bots111. SSL certs are valid112. Analyzed site’s redirection usage?113. Checked for chained redirects?114. Identify trademarks registered and issued115. Identify HTML entity usage116. Site is not responsive or missing a mobile version?117. Hreflang and rel=alternate for translations118. Check for Success Criterion: similar content?119. Optimal title used?120. Website technology stack checked
