Body Section: SEO Checklist 401

Heading Tags – (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6) Use heading tags in an appropriate structure. If possible wrap your important keyword with H1 and other heading tags for other targeted keywords but don’t over use it. Using one H1, one H2 and so on is enough for every page. Use cascading style sheets (CSS) to format heading formatted text if it is too big or too small.

Other Text Formatting Tags – You may also use other html text formatting tags like bold, italics etc. to indicate important keywords in your webpage’ content. And like heading tags, do not overdo it unless you wanted to get penalize.

ALT Tags – all image used in a webpage should have it’s own alt tag. Use the alt tag to describe what does the image is.

Text vs. HTML – Always see to it that there are more text in a particular webpage than the html code. You may use webpage size checker to determine the ration of text over html tags.

Anchor Text – Refers to the text used to link to another page or site. Use your targeted keywords as anchor text linking to your websites other page.

Keyword Density – keyword density is measured by the number of times a particular keyword is used in every 100 words used in a page. Using a word “keyword” once in 100 words will give you a keyword density of 1% and so on. As for me, I think the advisable keyword density should range from 3 % 3.75% for your keyword in each page.

Keyword Prominence – This refers on how prominent a particular keyword in a particular web page. It is important to place keywords in the start of at least near in the beginning of title, meta tags, start of a webpage or start of the first sentence or paragraph of your webpage’ content.

Keyword Proximity – This refers on how close each targeted keyword in if your webpage page content. The closer the keywords the better.

Header Section: SEO Checklist 301

1. Title: create a unique yet descriptive title tag with less than 10 characters but not exceeding 60 characters in length. Avoid using special characters in title.

2. Meta Description – Lots of people believed that Meta tags are dead but some search engines are still using them. One more thing is, there is no harm using Meta tags to your web pages. Try to use not exceeding 200 characters when creating Meta description for your page. Meta Description is a summarize explanation of a current page’ content. Try to include your targeted keyword in creating your unique Meta description.

3. Meta Keywords – make your keyword at least 10 words in every page and all keyword included in your Meta keyword should be found as well inside your web page’ content otherwise it will be penalize. Avoid using any single word twice otherwise google will treat it as a spam. If keyword doesn’t appear at least twice in your page body content text then do not include it in your Meta keyword.

Design - SEO Ckecklist 201

1. Page loading time – try to design a page that loads quickly. Lots of site visitors are not that patient to wait for 25 seconds for your website to load unless it contains a so called heroin content that they wanted or expected to see.

2. Take to consider the size of your website design as well to fit well on every monitor sizes to avoid design distortion.

3. Avoid using frames

4. Java scripts need to call from an external file instead of using every page of your webpage.

5. Do not use flash and animated gif unless necessary.

6. It is always important to create sitemap for your website. This is used by other surfers to check a particular website’s pages and to search the page that they wanted to see. This sitemap should be linked to every page of your site specially those in depth part for faster search engine crawling as well.