SEO is an essential aspect of blogging, and you need to be careful while planning and applying SEO tactics to your blog.
Though there isn’t any fixed methodology for SEO, there are a few factors that inevitably impact good search engine ranking. Getting organic traffic for your blog is crucial. Thus, all bloggers must take care of SEO strategies while blogging.
SEO is a vast topic, and if you are doing SEO for a new website or SEO audit of a website, it’s vital to maintain an SEO checklist, so that you can quickly see how well your site is optimized.
Because maintaining a list can be tough, I’m creating this list which will help you check your site’s SEO requirements.
ShoutMeLoud has covered all practical and easy tips for all important factors which affect your search engine rankings.
We provide only those SEO tips that can be use by beginners as well as professionals.
Here is the SEO checklist for 2023.
2023 SEO checklist
You should start from here: On page SEO checklist for 2023
This SEO checklist includes some things which you should know, and some software you should be using among other things. I tried to cover as much as I could, but feel free to suggest if you have any more tips to add.
There are many new factors that were implemented in 2023. I will include them too so that your site is ready to compete with other sites SEO in the coming years as well.
SEO Basics checklist:
- Install Yoast SEO plugin
- Create a Sitemap
- Submit your website & Sitemap to Google search console
- Submit your website to Bing webmaster tools
- Integrate Google Analytics with your website
Keyword Research checklist:
Keyword research is the pillar of SEO.
One of the important aspects is making sure you are targeting keywords with every post/page and also monitoring their performance. There are many easy to use keyword research tools like SEMRUSH, KWFinder, which will let you track the keyword rank of multiple keywords.
Here are some useful resources regarding Keywords.
- Importance of Keywords in SEO
- How to perform Keyword research
- Keywords in Title Tag/URL/Descriptions/ Headers
- Use Headline Analyzers to create clickable headlines (Ensure to add a keyword in your title)
- Find long tail keywords
Link Building
Content
- Optimize your content for focus keywords
- Use SEO Writing assistant to write better content
- Fix spelling, and grammar error using Grammarly
- Follow On-Page SEO guide
Meta Tags
Sitemap
- Permalinks
- Sitemap
- Set Redirections
- Ping Services
Must perform:
- How to submit your blog sitemap to Bing
- Submit your website to Google search console
- How to handle 404 pages for SEO
- Submit your website to these places for backlink
Others
- Robot Meta
- Image ALT Tag
- Robots. Txt
- Broken links
2023 SEO Checklist:
- Your pages loading time
- Check Page Layout Algo
- Outbound link
- Responsive design (Making your website optimize for desktop, tablets and mobile)
SEO Tools:
Helpful tools:
- Add social media sharing buttons for social signals (Use SocialSnap)
- SEO by Yoast WordPress plugin
- Image optimization ( Web-ready & faster loading)
- Implement free CDN using Cloudflare
Above are a few items on the SEO checklist which must be followed by all the bloggers, and content creators.
There are a lot of other factors which you will find online but I have covered the ones which are important for SEO and if done properly can be immensely useful to bloggers.
There are no shortcuts like hidden text or keyword stuffing for getting good search engine rankings, so I would recommend avoiding the unethical ways of getting good rankings.
Do share your SEO checklist for achieving good search engine rankings for your blogs.
Also read:
- The Importance of Keywords in SEO: A Beginner’s Guide
- 11+ best free SEO tools of 2023
- 5 Excellent Websites for Checking Google Keyword Rankings
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Hey harsh,
amazing infographics.
Really loved the checklist you shared.
Interlinking on proper anchor text is really important. Recently learned new skyscrapper and broken link methods advance SEO techniques.
Thanks,
Piyush
I just Love your Site Bro Awesom <3 My Wish is to become Author Here 🙂
Whenever I need some help related to SEO, I just visit your website. Thanks for helping bloggers across the world, Harsh.
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Harsh,There are lots of people like you talking about seo tips and tricks. After reading whole article still people searching for some shortcut. There should be some PDF study guide in which proven method s are included step by step even if research is still going on.No doubt it’s depends on search engine’s current policy but some fundamentals are always there.
Hello Harsh…this is a great article! Nicely covered all the aspects of all round SEO!
Every article linked in this post is really worth reading. These optimization practices are surely going to improve my blog’s traffic and rankings in SERP.
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Thank you for sharing such a great post to us Harsh. I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post nice post, thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much..it helped me alot to understand about seo..i came to undertand about meta tag better than previous..thank u..
Great SEO check list.
i just search on google for SEO checklist and within a second i got it.
i did not check other check list.
presenting very well.
thanks
Very useful Seo tips, no doubt your doing an awesome job. There are many who claim that they are professional blogger or 1st and only blogger but what your doing is simply the best.
Well done – but there are some additional issues like server, ISP, IP – if they are not carefully chosen all the efforts are in vain – bad neighborhood or shared IPs and malware infected networks may prevent a well-seod site from ranking well.
Jatek Thanks for dropping by and for your comment…
Just a quick update:
Matt Cutts Google engineer confirmed that shared hosting doesn’t affect search engine ranking:
http://wphostingdiscount.com/myth-buster-shared-hosting-ip-doesnt-affect-your-search-engine-ranking/
Hey there! Amazing post. The only thing I would suggest would be to add here all the different kinds of backlinking/social networking sites that one could use to improve their SEO.
I know the basics of SEO. Keyword research, backlinking, a few things like that. But I am looking for a list that tells me all my resources around the web!
Thank you for the post!