ULTIMATE SEO CHECKLIST

1. TRAFFIC VOLUME

2. BACKLINKS

2.1. # EXTERNAL LINKS FROM SITE

2.2. DOMAINS LINKING FROM SITE

2.3. NO FOLLOW

2.4. FOLLOW

2.5. AUTHORITY

2.6. QUALITY

3. CONTENT RELEVANCE

3.1. WORD COUNT

3.2. KEYWORDS

3.2.1. TITLE

3.2.2. META

3.2.3. HEADERS

3.2.4. ALT IMAGES

3.3. QUALITY

3.4. RESEARCH

3.4.1. CITING SOURCES

3.5. FRESH

3.6. ANSWERING QUESTIONS

3.7. READING LEVEL

3.8. CATEGORIES

3.9. TAGS

4. SOCIAL FACTORS

4.1. SHARING/COMMENTS/LIKES

4.1.1. FACEBOOK

4.1.2. TWITTER

4.1.3. PINTEREST

4.1.4. GOOGLE+

4.1.5. LINKEDIN

4.1.6. RSS SUBSCRIBERS

4.2. ENGAGEMENT

4.3. COUNTRY

4.4. LOCALITY

4.5. GOOGLE MY BUSINESS PAGE

5. TECHNICAL FACTORS

5.1. SITE SPEED

5.1.1. SITE SIZE

5.2. MOBILE FRIENDLY

5.2.1. PRESENCE OF POPUPS

5.3. PRESENCE OF HEADERS

5.4. HTTPS

5.4.1. SSL CERTIFICATE

5.5. URL LENGTH

5.6. SITE MAP

5.7. 404 ERRORS

5.8. 301 ERRORS

5.9. CRAWL ERRORS

5.10. DULICATATIONS

5.11. SCHEMA

5.12. DOMAIN

5.12.1. TOP LEVEL DOMAIN

5.12.2. DOMAIN AGE

5.13. TERMS OF SERVICE

5.14. PRIVACY POLICY

5.15. BREADCRUMBS

6. USER SIGNALS

6.1. CTR

6.2. TIME SPENT ON SITE

6.3. BOUNCE RATE

7. USER EXPERIENCE

7.1. INTERNAL LINKS

7.2. EXTERNAL LINKS

7.3. IMAGES

7.3.1. IMAGE SIZE OPTIMIZATION

7.4. VIDEO

7.5. FONT SIZE

7.6. INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS

7.7. LISTS

7.8. FLASH

7.9. ADSENSE

7.9.1. AFFILIATE LINKS

7.9.2. "SPONSORED LINKS"

7.9.3. ABOVE THE FOLD ADS

7.10. USER REVIEWS

7.11. COMMENTS

7.12. POPUPS