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About wordpress-seo-checklist

A simple checklist to improve your WordPress site Ranking.

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WordPress SEO Checklist

A simple checklist to improve your WordPress site Ranking.

General

  • [ ] Strict usage of domain with or without www
  • [ ] Install Google Analytics
  • [ ] Setup Google Search Console
  • [ ] Setup permalink structure with Post Name (Friendly URLs)
  • [ ] Install a WordPress SEO Plugin (Yoast SEO)
  • [ ] Pages can be indexed
  • [ ] HTTPS is used on all pages
  • [ ] Sitemap is available (Yoast SEO)
    • [ ] Remove tags from sitemap
    • [ ] Don't index image attachment pages
    • [ ] Send sitemap to Google Search Console
  • [ ] Robots.txt is available
  • [ ] Structured data is used where possible
    • [ ] Test structured data (Google structured data testing tool)
  • [ ] Social markup
  • [ ] Breadcrumbs
  • [ ] 404 page is available
  • [ ] Correct language set in HTML tag
  • [ ] Charset is set
  • [ ] HTML is valid
  • [ ] Is mobile friendly (Google's mobile friendly testing tool)

Resources

  • [ ] JavaScript combined in one file
  • [ ] JavaScript minified
  • [ ] JavaScript is compressed
  • [ ] No JavaScript inline
  • [ ] CSS combined in one file
  • [ ] CSS minified
  • [ ] CSS is compressed
  • [ ] CSS: No usage of @import
  • [ ] No CSS inline
  • [ ] HTML minified
  • [ ] Static files are compressed with gzip or brotli
  • [ ] Static files are pre-compressed on the server
  • [ ] HTML is compressed with gzip or brotli
  • [ ] Usage of correct image formats
  • [ ] Usage of responsive images
  • [ ] Images are optimized (TinyPNG for WordPress)
  • [ ] Image are cached in the browser
  • [ ] SVG files are minized
  • [ ] SVG files are used where possible
  • [ ] Only fonts that are used are loaded
  • [ ] Browser cache is used efficiently
  • [ ] Expires, cache-control and max-age headers for static resources is set to 1 year

Content

  • [ ] Header tags used
  • [ ] Meta descriptions used
  • [ ] All images have alt text
  • [ ] Add internal links (at least 3-5 links)
  • [ ] Add external links (at least 2 links)
  • [ ] All external links open in new tab or window
  • [ ] No Duplicate Content
  • [ ] Focus keyword optimization
    • [ ] Title
    • [ ] First paragraph
    • [ ] Permalink
    • [ ] Image alt text
    • [ ] Content
    • [ ] Meta description
  • [ ] Yoast analysis of all post

License

MIT License © WordPress SEO Checklist