SEO Steps

I am providing you few SEO steps which we take in SEO or before starting SEO on any site. I think these all SEO steps are

beneficial for you in doing SEO of a site. If you follow these step then you can doSEO of your site on your own.



Domain age - The age of the domain

Website age - Date on which website was first lived with content


Content - Amount of content on the website

Keyword Research - Researching keywords over word tracker / overture

Meta tags creation - TITLE/KEYWORDS/DESCRIPTION TAGS implementation

DTD and W3C Schema - To be defined in every webpage for validations

CSS / XHTML usage - To be implemented to make site compatible over several platforms

JavaScript in SRC - Javascript to put in separate file instead of the head section

Optimized Flash - Putting comment tags and other methods to optimize flash

URL Rewrite - Search engine friendly URL's with tags in them

W3C validations - Validating the webpage with Global standards

Keywords in anchor text - Keywords in anchor text helps in SEO

Keywords in alt tags - Keywords in alt tags help in SEO


Spell check - Spelling mistakes is not favoured by robots

Fast loading pages - robots crawl fast loading pages easiy

URL Redirect - Redirect should be 301

Keyword density - Meta tags / Body content ration should be around 3%

Internal linkage - No broken links

Duplicate content - No duplicate content

robots.txt - Customized robots.txt is a must

XML sitemap - Submitted to search engines (google.com)

urllist.txt - Submitted to search engines (yahoo.com)

Server uptime - Monitor the server up/down time

Search engine submission - Must be submitted manually

General Directory Submissions - Must be submitted manually

Specific Directory Submissions - Must be submitted manually

Trade Directory enlistment - Must be submitted manually

Reciprocal linkage - Themed link exchange

3-way linkage - Themed link exchange

Blogs creation - For updating site regularly

RSS creation - For updating news sections regularly

Podcast creation - Audio files submissions and publishing

Video cast - Video files submissions and publishing

Books submission - Google books submissions

Business submission Google - Business over Google map

Froogle Feeds - Google products catalogue

Articles Submission - For linkbaiting

Website Stats / analytics - Review of the website performance

Social Media Optimization - For viral marketing and link building

Google Gadgets - For viral marketing

Custom Error page - To minimize error pages