SEO
Notes on Search Engine Optimization⚑
- write proper site title and site description.
- Accurately describe the page's content
- Unique title and description for each page
- brief but descriptive title
- [Avoid] extremely lengthy text in title
- [Avoid] Stuffing unneeded keywords in title
- in description, accurately summarize the page content. read here
- [Avoid] description that has no relation to the content
- [Avoid] using generic descriptions
- [Avoid] filling the desc with only keywords
- unique descriptions for each page
- use heading tags
- to emphasize important text
- heading tags should outline the content
- [Avoid] too many headings
- [Avoid] long headings
- use Structured data. google docs
- check using google rich text result
- [Avoid] using invalid markup
- use Data Highlighter
- use breadcrumbs
- Navigation
- create simple navigation
- use text for navigation
- [Avoid] image-based navigation
- navigational page (navbar) for user, and xml sitemap for search engine
- [Avoid] broken nav links
- show useful 404 pages (with 404 status code)
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[Avoid] indexing 404 pages
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URLs
- use words in URLs
- [Avoid] using lengthy urls with params like session IDs etc
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[Avoid] generic page names
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Optimize content
- white easy to read text
- [Avoid] grammatical errors and spelling mistakes
- [Avoid] Awkward or poorly written content
- create fresh, unique content
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optimize content for users, not search engine
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Act in a way that cultivates user trust
- [Avoid] putting distracting ads
- write good link texts
- choose descriptive text
- write concise text
- format links so they are easy to spot
- anchor text for internal link
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use
rel="nofollow"
for external links that are not trustworthy -
Optimize images
- use
<img>
or<picture>
tag - use lazy loading (using js, or by attr
loading="lazy"
) - [Avoid] css to display image
- provide descriptive alt attribute
- use brief but descriptive filename and alt text
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use standard image formats
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make website mobile-friendly
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test website with mobile-friendly test
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promote the website
notes +++
- do keyword research. for Level, some of the keywords could be health, wellness etc. ranking a page on a highly competitive keyword is tough