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SEO Checklist

Checklist to Improve Search Engine Optimization

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

This SEO checklist will take you through the steps to improve your site for search engine rankings. There are 5 sections covering the best and worst things to do to get good search engine ranking. Use this SEO checklist to evaluate your Web pages and make sure your pages rank as high as they can.

Remember: always evaluate only 1 page at a time. Search engine optimization is best handled on a page-by-page basis, and this SEO checklist is intended to evaluate one page at a time, not an entire site.

High Priority SEO Checklist

This is the page of high priority items. If you do nothing else, you should evaluate your page against this list to make sure that you've got the basics of SEO down. If you have questions about a specific item, go to the SEO Tips and Tricks - High Priority list for more help.

□ Write great content

□ Write unique content

□ Add new content all the time

□ Create a great keyword phrase

□ Choose a phrase that is popular, but not too popular

□ Write an accessible site

□ Use the keyword phrase in your title tag

□ Get a domain with your keyword phrase

□ Use the keyword phrase in your URL

□ Use your keyword phrase a lot, but not too much

□ Use your keyword phrase in headlines

□ Use your keyword phrase in anchor text of links

□ Ask other people for links to your page

□ Try to get your keyword phrase inside incoming links

□ Try to get links from reputable sites

□ Try to get links from similar sites

□ Try to get links from .edu, and .gov sites

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