The Ultimate SEO Checklist (for 2024)

Follow this 70-point SEO checklist and watch your Google rankings climb. ⎯ ⚙️ Create SEO Content That Ranks: 🔗 Get Powerful Backlinks: (sponsor) 📚 Start an SEO Agency: 🚀 #1 SEO Training & Coaching for Agencies: ⎯ Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:23 - Are you tracking SEO performance? 00:01:57 - Are you tracking the right SEO KPIs? 00:05:21 - Is the website crawlable and indexable? 00:05:43 - Is your website mobile-friendly? 00:06:13 - Does your website load fast? 00:06:48 - Do you have an SSL certificate, and is it working properly? 00:07:19 - Is the website design modern and updated? 00:08:00 - Is your website using aggressive interstitial popups? 00:10:32 - Does your website use aggressive ad placements? 00:11:11 - Does your website have trust pages? 00:13:38 - Does your website have detailed author bios? 00:14:35 - Do you have pages deindexed that shouldn’t be? 00:15:37 - Is your website bloated? 00:18:47 - Does your website have bloated pages? 00:23:17 - Does your website have thin content? 00:24:01 - Does your website have outdated content? 00:25:10 - Does your website have pages with an engagement rate of 20? 00:26:21 - Does every page on your website have one title tag and one H1 tag? 00:27:30 - Does your website have a significant amount of spelling and grammar errors? 00:28:44 - Do you have pages with backlinks but no traffic? 00:30:23 - Do you have 404 pages with backlinks? 00:30:51 - Are all of your pages less than three clicks deep into your architecture? 00:35:48 - Do your pages have enough internal link coverage? 00:37:39 - Are you leveraging your most powerful pages for internal linking? 00:38:21 - Does your website have redirect chains? 00:39:04 - Does your website have duplicate content? 00:40:29 - Does your website have a significant number of broken links? 00:41:12 - Does your website have a significant amount of AI content? 00:42:19 - Is the H1 tag above the fold? 00:43:58 - Are heading tags structured correctly? 00:45:08 - Is your primary keyword in the URL? 00:46:57 - Is the keyword in the Title Tag? 00:47:07 - Is the keyword in the Meta Description? 00:47:27 - Is the keyword in the H1? 00:47:41 - Is the keyword in the First Sentence? 00:47:57 - Is the keyword in the first H2? 00:48:18 - Is the content 50% original? 00:52:10 - Is the content 100% unique outside of the domain? 00:52:50 - Is the content 100% unique relative to other pages on the website? 00:53:19 - Is the word count sufficient? 00:54:49 - Does the content have a 95 Grammarly score 00:55:20 - Is the page optimized well for NLP? 00:57:14 - Does the page/content satisfy the intent? 00:59:31 - Does content strategy/angle add unique value relative to the competitors? 01:05:06 - Is the content up-to-date? 01:07:28 - Is the page readable, scannable, and easy to digest? 01:09:33 - Does the content have 100% unique, high-quality images and videos to break it up? 01:12:55 - Is the content helpful? 01:14:52 - Is the content original? 01:16:28 - Is the content accurate? 01:19:14 - Is the content safe? 01:20:38 - Does the content demonstrate a high degree of effort? 01:23:18 - Is the content written and/or fact-checked by an SME? 01:24:44 - Is the SME prominently displayed? 01:25:37 - Does each author have a dedicated and detailed author page? 01:26:35 - Are all sources of information cited? 01:27:38 - Does the content demonstrate first-hand experience? 01:29:52 - Does the content demonstrate the in-the-field experience? 01:31:15 - How well does the content share a personal experience, perspective, or feelings on a topic? 01:32:20 - How well does the content speak from a first-person perspective? 01:32:51 - Does content demonstrate that it was produced with some degree of experience, such as actual product use, visiting a place, or communicating what a person experienced? 01:34:13 - Is the page built for goal completions? 01:35:32 - Do you have user-tracking software installed? 01:37:42 - Is the page using correct schema markup? 01:40:03 - Are there any other pages on our website targeting this keyword (keyword cannibalization)? 01:42:26 - Does the page have 5 unique internal links (excluding the navigation)? 01:43:38 - Is the internal anchor text optimized well? 01:44:48 - Does the page have as many internal links as the top competitor? 01:46:01 - Is the page no more 3 clicks deep into the architecture? 01:47:10 - Does the page have at least 5 supporting assets?