Newsletter February 2016

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2016 SEO Web Site Audit Checklist
– What is a Conversion? –
PANTONE Color(s) of the Year 2016

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2016 Professional SEO’s Web Site Audit Checklist

1. Review # of indexed pages – Use the site:yourdomain.com search command at Bing & Google. This will typically display all indexed URLs.
2. Review Webmaster Tool Data – Reported in your GA Monthly Reports.
3. Is your company ranking for Company Name, Brand and Unique Terms? – Look at your monthly Rankings Reports.
4. Check 404 Error Handler – Go to www.YourDomain.com/123.htm and see if an error page shows; It should.
5. Review XML Sitemap – Go to www.YourDomain.com/sitemap.xml and see if your inner pages are listed. (Some sites have different names for their sitemap.xml file)

7. Check for off-site duplicate content problems – Select a key phrase that is unique to your site and do a search (in quotes) for that exact phrase. Is it copied on other sites?
8. Are both the www and non-www versions of the site functioning properly?
9. Google Page Speed – Test your site w/ https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
10. Test Response Time – We recommend using www.WebPageTest.org for performance benchmarks11. Does your home page have indexable text of at least one paragraph? Run the home page through the SEN Target Keyword Analyzer, this report will show you the top words found on the page as found by a spider. If your keywords are not detected at all, you have a problem with the home page.
12. Does your web site have a ‘Sitemap’ page? This should list every page on your site as simple text links. Look in your footer; Do you see ‘Sitemap’; That’s generally where you find a link to a sitemap page.
13. Do your inner pages have Search Engine Friendly URLs? If the page is about ‘red tennis shoes’, then the URL shoudl be something like ‘xyz.com/red-tennis-shoes.htm’.
14. Are your keywords optimized on the appropriate pages? Do ‘Red Tennis Shoes’ show up in text, in alt tags, in bolded text, on image names (red-tennis-shoes.jpg)?15. Are the Business Name, Address, Phone and Contact info listed on every page?  * Do these match your Google Business page, exactly?
16. Form Testing – Test your own forms on a regular basis. Do they function the way you desire?

17. * Click Depth? – How many clicks does it take to get to all of your content?  3 clicks should be plenty for most sites.

18. * Does the Business have a ‘Verified Google Business Page’ – Do a Google search for ‘your business – your town’.  On the right side, underneath the map area, look for ‘Claim this Business’. If you see this phrase, your business is NOT verified through Google.

19. * Is Google Search Console associated with the Google Analytics account?  If you are a RWD client, you should be receiving the ‘Search Query Reports’ every month.  If so, good!