Ultimate SEO Checklist For Beginners 2016: Mini HandBook

Jul 19
08:22

2016

Arjun Ullas

Arjun Ullas

  • Share this article on Facebook
  • Share this article on Twitter
  • Share this article on Linkedin

We all know without best SEO techniques we can't drive organic traffic to our blogs. Not only that, SEO helps for better rankings and also helps to build a good authority in online networks. Therefore, this guide will help you to boost up with what to follow and what should not.

mediaimage
Introduction To Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

SEO is a type of mathematical algorithm or in simple terms is nothing but when search engines like Google,Ultimate SEO Checklist For Beginners 2016: Mini HandBook Articles Bing, Yandex, etc...sends bots and spiders to a particular website or a blog in order to find out whether it is informative, useful or relevant. It is also used to compare with other websites and points out content originality using different ranking factors. The factors may include things like organic keywords, fresh contents, domain authority, backlinks, social shares, user experience qualities and many more factors.

Why You Need An Official SEO Checklist ?

Yes, there are many circumstances to win your blogging strategy everywhere. Not only that, you also have to surpass search engine algorithms, especially Google's Panda effect, Penguin effect as well as Pigeon penalties too. Getting caught by any of these mentioned penalties and getting rid of from there isn't easy anymore. This is the main reason, you should double sure your blog posts/pages before you click the publish button and that is why this post loaded up here to help you out.

SEO Checklist - Do's & Dont's

Therefore, today we will discuss about how to follow SEO in a proper way and the following breakdown of the checklist will definitely help you to boost your rankings if you are confused how to use SEO properly on your blogs without spamming and also helps in making search engines, love.

DO's

  • Choose a theme which is simple and responsive on every device such as smartphones, tablets, Desktops and Laptops.
  • Make sure you have a search box widget on your blog or website for quicker navigations which helps your readers instantly.
  • A well-inviting homepage or landing page which opens under 2 seconds is the best when you are aiming for higher rankings.
  • Contents should be fresh, unique, media-rich, and informative. If necessary, add YouTube videos too.
  • Give proper ALT tags with your primary keywords, and insert keyword rich file names for all your media as well.
  • Implement relevant LSI keywords for doubling your organic SEO traffic.
  • Make sure you don't have multiple URLs pointing to one subpage or post. It should be of the proper canonicalization format.
  • Internal and outbound links are very helpful for backlinks as well as for better rankings.
  • You should ensure that there are no broken links or it should be less in number since if no broken links then more page speed.
  • Share your blog posts/pages through as many social networks as you can.
  • (BONUS) Add a breadcrumbs plugin which helps your readers where they are and moreover search engine loves this as well.

DONT's

  • Don't link every single blog pages/posts from your homepage which may lead to higher page load time as well as it hurts SEO too.
  • Don't overuse your blog menus with pages since it kills user experiences.
  • Don't use any misleading headers, title tags, etc...Everything should be related to your content.
  • Don't have multiple URL canonicals that may lead to the same page.
  • Don't publish duplicated, pirated, or even spinning contents to your blog.
  • Don't add any copyrighted images or videos to your blog or website as it all gets penalized so soon.
  • Don't buy paid traffic and backlinks from other sources as all these are considered to be malpractices.
  • Don't overload a page or post with unnecessary images, ads and with too much-unwanted information.
  • Don't waste money on any bot software programs that artificially promote all your contents to social media platforms.
  • Don't make your permalinks too long instead limit to five words maximum.

OK fine !!! We made a blog and ready to publish contents. Check keep all this points and blog daily.

Are you sure whether you follow correctly all the guidelines of Google ? If not try this trending Varvy SEO tool which helps to find out if you're following all the rules within seconds.