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SEO Website Checklist - Making the perfect website that Google Loves

Written By LaaMok - SEO Consultant
Follow the steps to create your own professional website, then follow the steps to improve your websites search engine visibility, then learn how to maintain your website and increase traffic. Make your website search engine optimised.
You can use this guide to build your highly effective websites or you can use it as a website checklist on existing websites. If you are not an experienced web designer, you can follow this guide using my xsitepro directions on every page.

I designed this website initially to help close friends use my personal checklist. Please print this webpage out and tick the boxes as you progress. This checklist is designed for beginners or experienced users, you can always google the bits you don't understand. Please do not copy my website checklist.  If you follow the list, you will maximise your visibility and improve traffic and hopefully conversions. I am writing this as an experienced seo consultant, some items are not needed or essential, but its good practise to do.

   
 start here If you havent started your website yet, please hit the start button and follow my guide, I have done this extensive guide to make it easy for people to follow.

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No experience is required if you use Xsitepro to make your websites, its very good for seo and its super fast to make effective websites. I have covered directions on every page for xsitepro users to help them build the website. If you are not using this software, you can still follow my website checklist, but you will need to use google to get your coding.


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The checklist is in order to make your website

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DONE 

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AMENDED

Starting Your Website      
 What website topic?      
 What domain name to buy?      
 What hosting should I use?      
 Blocking your site from Google      
 Website Building Tips      
 Website Header      
 Add the pages you want      
 Navigation Menus      
 Adding Content      
 Adding Media Videos      
 Checking word count      
 Spell Checker      
 Designing your website      
 Font Size & Colour      
 Branding Your Website      
 Page Titles      
 Heading Tags      
 Page Descriptions      
 Meta Keywords      
 Keyword Density      
 Add FURL      
 Convert file names to lowercase      
 .htaccess redirect      
 Canonical      
 Contact Us Page      
 Add Privacy Policy      
 Add Terms of Use      
 Add Disclaimer      
 Return/refund policy      
 Add FAQ      
 Links swap page added      
 Links page      
       
 Images      
 Favicon      
 Add Pictures      
 Google Images - gallery      
 Image File names      
 ALT tags      
       
 Navigation and Usability      
 Website Accessibility      
 Search Feature      
 Printer Friendly Pages      
 Custom 404 error page.      
 Mobile Version      
 HTML Sitemap for user      
 Google XML Sitemap      
 Google Snippet      
       
 Web 2.0      
 Comments      
       
 Clean Your Code      
 Minimal Markup      
 Html validator      
 Browser Compatibility      
 DNS checker      
 CSS Code      
 CSS Validator      
 Web page speed check      
       
 Optimisation      
 IPB- Keyword Density Tool      
 Website Analysis      
 Meta Tag Analyser & Keyword Density Tool      
       
 After website is Finished      
 Google Analytics      
 Google Webmaster Tools      
 Avoiding the sandbox      
 Robots.txt      
 Forum Website Reviews      
 Understanding Google      
 Indexing your website      
 Blocking Content      
 Check how google sees your website      
 Website downtime alerts      
 Create Banners      
       
 Link Building      
 Nofollow      
 Link Baiting      
 Page Rank and Page Flow      
 Link Building      
 Competitor Link Analysys      
 Internal Link building      
 Squidoo      
 How to get more pages indexed      
 Search engine submission      
       
 Social Networking      
Add to Social Booking marking.      
Add to Social Networking      
Add This      
       
 More traffic and links      
 Resources/articles      
 Add To Archive.org      

Advertising/exchange banners

 

 

 

Add Products To GB

 

 

 

Website Reviews      

Info tag in html code

 

 

 

Blogging for traffic      
 Forums      
 Similar Topics/pages      
 Link Directories      
     
Competitor Analysis      
 Yahoo Explorer      
 Back Links Checker      
       

Extras

 

 

 

Email Collections

 

 

 

RSS feed

 

 

 

Feedburner      
RSS Feed Submission      
Email Cloaker      
Domain Email Account      
Google Translate      
Duplicate Content      
Google Alerts      
Viral Advertising      
Press Realises      
Radio, News and TV      
SEO Penalty      
Fun Factor      
Bounce rate      
Essential Wordpress SEO Plugins      
Block Google Sitelinks      
       
Maintenance      
Redo sitemaps      
Ranking Reports      
Dead Links Check      
Regular Updates      
Bad Neighbourhood Link Checker      
HTTP Header Review      
Redesigning Website      
Clean Files      
Website Down?      
Change of Address?      
     
 Monitise      
 Adsense Channel Set Up      
 Advertising Page      
 Affiliates      
 Paypal      
 Worldpay      
 Website Heatmap      
 

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Useful Resources
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Website Checklist
Website Topic
Buying your domain
Choosing Hosting
Block Search Engines
Website Building Tips
Website Header
Add Pages
Navigation Menu
Adding Content
Adding Youtube Videos
Word Count
Spell Checker
Design your website
Font and colour
Branding your website
Page Titles
Heading Tags
Page Descriptions
Meta Keywords
Keyword Density
Convert to FURLs
Convert files to lower case
.htaccess redirect
Canonical element
Add Contact Us Page
Privacy Policy
Add Terms Of Use
Add Disclaimer
Refund policy
FAQ
Link Swap Page
Links Page
Images
Favicon
Add Pictures
Google Images
Image file names
ALT Tags
Website Accessibiity
Site Search Engine
Printer Friendly
404 Error Page
Mobile Version
HTML Sitemap
XML Sitemap generator
Google Snippet
Adding comments
Clean & Valid Code
w3c validation
Browser Compatibility
Minimal Markup
DNS Checker
CSS Code
Validate CSS Code
Website Speed Check
iBusinessPromoter
Website Anaylsis
Meta Tag and Keywood Density
Google Analytics
Avoid google sandbox
Robots Text - Allow all
Forums Website Reviews
Learn Google Basics
Indexing Website
Block Content from Google.
Check Google's Access
Downtime Alert
Banners
Webmaster Tools
NoFollow
Page Rank
Link building
Competitor link analysys
Internal Link Building
Squidoo
Get More Pages indexed
Blogging for traffic
Submit to search engines
Article Submisison
Social Networking
Social Book Marking List
Social Networking
Add This
Archive.org
Website penalty checker
Website Reviews
Forums
Related Topics
Google Tools
Google Base
Google Translate
Google Alerts
RSS Feed
FeedBurner
RSS Feed Aggregators
Radio, News and TV
Fun Factor
Bounce Rate
Google Sitelinks
Emails
Email Lists & Newsletters
Email Cloaking
Domain Email Account
Directories
Press Releases
Duplicate Content
Linking
No Follow Do Follow?
Link Baiting
Back Linking
Bad Link checker
Dead Links Check
Back Links Checker
Link Redirect Review
Yahoo Site Explorer
Manual Review
Website Banners
Maintenance
Redo your sitemaps
Ranking Reports
Regular Updates
Web site down?
Clean left over html files
Redesigning site
Change of address
Check your redirects
Monetise
Adsense
Advertising Page
Affiliates
Paypal Payments
Worldpay
Website Heat Map