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SEO Cheat Sheet and Checklist HTML
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JS
Basics ‼ ? ↖ x jQ
⚡ AMP
Meta tags ➤ SEO
Add them in the <head> section.
<title>SEO Cheat Sheet</title>
<meta name="description" content="This online SEO cheat sheet lists everyting to rank first...">
<meta name="keywords" content="seo,cheat,sheet">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://htmlcheatsheet.com/seo/" />
Image
<img src="/images/logo.png" alt="cheat sheet" width="36" height="50">
NoFollow Link
<a href="https://htmlcheatsheet.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow">HTML Cheat Sheet</a>
Always follow Google Webmaster Guidelines and avoid blackhat SEO techniques!
Make sure your content is unique, shareable, helpful and informative.
Online Tools ὑ ? ↖ x
Speed Ἴ
Google Speed Insight Web Page Test Pingdom Speed Test
Image Compressor
Validators ✅
W3 HTML Validator W3 CSS Validator AMP Validator Facebook Crawler
Compressors Ὕ
HTML CSS JavaScript Image
Linking ὑ
W3 Checklink Dr. Link Check Broken Link Check Dead Link Checker
Sitemap Generator Ahrefs Backlinks & Keywords SimilarWeb
Keywords ὑ
Ubersuggest Keyword Research Keyword Suggestions
Sloove Keyword extractor Keyword $hitter Wondersearch Related terms
Usability
Mobile Friendly Technical SEO Nibbler Website Grader
Browser Shots Website Checker Tools
Google ὐ
Analytics Search Console Keyword Planner Trends
Downtime Ὄ
Uptime Robot Down Notifier with SMS alerts
Webmaster Tools ὗ
Google Bing / Yahoo Yandex (Rus)
Checklist ✅ ? ↖ x
OnPage SEO
Keyword in URL, title, description, body. Check readability.
Check links
Check both internal and external links. Scan the site for broken links .
SSL ( https:// )
Set up the hosting SSL certificate to load the site with https:// and redirect with .htacess
Userfriendly URLs
Short URLs containing the main keywords. For Wordpress see settings .
Redirect www / nonwww
Use only www or nonwww versions and redirect to one with .htacess .
Canonical URL
Make sure there's no duplicate content or set up canonical meta tags .
robots.txt
Check your robots.txt and make sure you allow indexing.
ads.txt
For AdSense:
google.com, pub‐9728962508602593, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
Site map
Generate a sitemap page listing all links and submit an XML sitemap to webmaster tools .
Speed up
Check loading speed and improve where possible.
Optimize media
Compress images and other media files that slow down page
Compress code
Minimize your HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other codes where possible.
Validate
Crawl your site and look for invalid code and usability issues .
Shareability
Add social share buttons, Facebook like.
Social
Enable commenting, rating and other user interactions.
Mobile friendly
Build responsive design and crawl with Google's mobile friendly tester. It's recommended to have AMP pages.
Content delivery network
A CDN, like Cloudflare improves speed, security and offers free SSL.
Uptime monitors
Get an alert when your server falls down with a free uptime monitor .
Google Analytics
Install a tracking code to analize traffic.
Search Console
Set up Google Search Console and link it to the Analytics account.
Get links
Share your link on relavant sites and forums. Reverse (copy) your competitor’s backlinks (ahrefs (not free) or
Ubersuggest). Pursue unlinked mentions.
Ads ? ↖ x
Structured Data Ὄ ? ↖ x
Schemas for structured data encoding on web pages.
JSON
Add script in the <head>
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org/",
"@graph":[
{"@type": "WebSite",
"name": "Text Fancy",
"url": "https://textfancy.com/",
"description":"Free online Fancy Text generator"},
{"@type":"ImageObject",
"@id":"https://textfancy.com/#primaryimage",
"url":"https://textfancy.com/img/og.jpg",
"width":700,
"height":346,
"caption":"Fancy Text generator online"}
]}
</script>
Microdata
<body itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage">
<h1 itemprop="name">Fancy Text Generator</h1>
<p itemprop="description">Free online fancy text generators, converters and more..</p>
<div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<h4 class="footer">About <span itemprop="name">Unicode Characters</span></h4>
</div>
<a itemprop="license"
rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by‐nc‐sa/3.0/us/deed.en_US"><img
src="/images/cc_logo.png" alt="Creative Commons logo" /></a>
</body>
Types
Action CreativeWork Event Intangible MedicalEntity
Organization Person Place Product WebPage
Links ὑ
Schema.org Google strucutred data tester Markup generator
Open Graph ἱ ? ↖ x
Let Facebook and other social networks understand your page.
Add the og tags in the <head> among other meta tags.
Website
<meta property="og:title" content="Text Fancy" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://textfancy.com/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://textfancy.com/img/og.jpg" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Free online fancy text generators" />
Article
<meta property="og:type" content="article">
<meta property="og:title" content="Fancy text converter">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Text Fancy">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://textfancy.com/font‐converter/">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://textfancy.com/img/og.jpg">
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2023‐01‐01">
<meta property="article:author" content="https://www.facebook.com/Text‐Fancy/">
OG image size: 1200 × 630px or 1.9:1 ratio
Links ὑ
ogp.me Facebook Debugger Online generator
Robots.txt ᾑ ? ↖ x
Decide which pages you wish to block by web crawlers.
Allow Everything Except 1 Dir
User‐agent: *
Disallow: /wp‐admin/
Sitemap: https://htmlcheatsheet.com/sitemap.xml
Disallow All
User‐agent: *
Disallow: /
Block Googlebot
User‐agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /no‐index.html
User Agents
Googlebot
GooglebotNews
GooglebotImage
GooglebotMobile
Mediapartners
Bingbot
Baiduspider
Yandexbot
facebot
FacebookExternalHit
Rogerbot
Slurp
DuckDuckBot
ia_archiver
Arguments
Nofollow, Noindex, Noarchive, NoODP (Do not show Open Directory Project description), or combined (noindex,
nofollow)
Noindex Meta Tag
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
NoFollow Link
<a href="https://htmlcheatsheet.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow">HTML Cheat Sheet</a>
Fetch as Google
.htaccess ↗ ? ↖ x
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
Redirect 301 /wp‐login.php http://404.com/
Redirect 301 /xmlrpc.php http://404.com/
Redirect 301 /api.php http://404.com/
Redirect 301 /lequ.php http://404.com/
Redirect 301 /action.php http://404.com/
Redirect 301 /log_in.php http://404.com/
Error pages
ErrorDocument 401 /unauthorized.html
ErrorDocument 403 "Forbidden Error"
ErrorDocument 404 /page‐not‐found.html
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.example.com/server‐error
Permanent Redirect
Redirect 301 /api.php http://404.com/
Force WWW
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
Force NonWWW
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Force https
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]
Force https With JavaScript
var loc = window.location.href+'';
if (loc.indexOf('http://')==0){
window.location.href = loc.replace('http://','https://');
}
Disable Directory Browsing
Options ‐Indexes
Enable:
Options +Indexes
Block Hotlinking
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?example.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ ‐ [F]
Block Access
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* ‐ [F]
Block IP Address
Deny from 123.123.123.123
Ads ? ↖ x
Languages Ὀ ? ↖ x
Define for the <html> tag
<html lang="en">
Alternate Language
The linked pages must link back.
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://cube3x3.com/como‐resolver‐un‐cubo‐rubik‐es/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="https://cube3x3.com/como‐resolver‐o‐cubo‐magico‐pt/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="https://cube3x3.com/comment‐resoudre‐le‐cube‐rubik‐fr/" />
Site Map
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF‐8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<url>
<loc>https://cube3x3.com/how‐to‐solve‐a‐rubiks‐cube/</loc>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://cube3x3.com/como‐resolver‐un‐cubo‐rubik‐es/"
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="https://cube3x3.com/como‐resolver‐o‐cubo‐magico‐pt/"
</url>
</urlset>
Rich Snippets Ὃ ? ↖ x
Common Use
Breadcrumb, Business Information, Contact Data, Email Markup, Events, Media Content, Mobile Apps, People,
Rating, Recipes
Breadcrumbs
Home / Emojis / Animals
<ol itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList">
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
<a itemprop="item" href="https://textfancy.com/emoji/">
<span itemprop="name">Emojis</span>
</a>
<meta itemprop="position" content="1" />
</li> /
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
<a itemprop="item" href="https://textfancy.com/emoji/animals/">
<span itemprop="name">Animals</span>
</a>
<meta itemprop="position" content="2" />
</li>
</ol>
Rating
Rating: 5.0 Review by Frici Koma
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
<div itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Book">
<span itemprop="name">SEO CheatSheet</span>
</div>
<span itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
<span itemprop="ratingValue">5</span>
</span> stars ‐
<strong>"<span itemprop="name">A good read.</span>" </strong>
<span itemprop="author">Frici Koma</span>
<span itemprop="reviewBody">I enjoyed reading the SEO CheatSheet :)</span>
</div>
Site Map Ὗ ? ↖ x
XML file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF‐8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<sitemap>
<loc>https://htmlcheatsheet.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2020‐02‐01T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>https://htmlcheatsheet.com/css/</loc>
<lastmod>2020‐01‐01</lastmod>
</sitemap>
Link from .htaccess
Sitemap: https://htmlcheatsheet.com/sitemap.xml
Links ὑ
Sitemap Generator Sitemaps.org Submit to Webmaster Tools
Twitter Cards ὂ ? ↖ x
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:url" content="https://htmlcheatsheet.com/seo/">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="SEO Cheat Sheet">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@RuwixCube">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Short description comes here.">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://htmlcheatsheet.com/seo/seo‐cheat‐sheet.jpg">
Links ὑ
About Twitter Cards
Pagination Ὄ ? ↖ x
Set the prev and next meta attributes for consecutive pages.
The first page contains next only.
<link rel="prev" href="https://ruwix.com/amazing‐rubiks‐cube‐facts/">
<link rel="next" href="https://ruwix.com/amazing‐rubiks‐cube‐facts/21‐30/">
Ads ? ↖ x
Domain ἅ ? ↖ x
Going online starts with registering a good domain.
.com
Use the most recognizable toplevel domain. People type this at default.
Contain keyword
Pick a domain name that contains your keyword. Preferably no numbers and dash.
Buy premium domain
Most good domains are taken. Look around on domain marketplaces and auctions (links below)
Useful links ὑ
Expired domains Worth estimator Domain value appraisal
Sedo marketplace Flippa marketplace Godaddy auctions
NameCheap auctions Escrow safe domain transfer
Relaunch Checklist ✅ ? ↖ x
Upgrading, moving to new domain or relaunching a website? Make sure it fulfills everything in the list:
Check internal linking
Update XML Sitemap
Broken link scan
Remove noindex from robots.txt
301 redirect to new URLs
You might go through the launch checklist .
Wordpress ᵎ ? ↖ x
SEO Plugins
Yoast SEO All in One SEO Pack WordPress SEO Plugin XML Sitemaps
Set Up Permalinks
Settings / Permalinks: set Post name
Hosting Ὃ ? ↖ x
Set up HTTPS
Content Delivery Network
Caching
Firewall
Security
Cloudflare
HTML Preview
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The SEO Cheat Sheet
This online SEO cheat sheet lists everyting you need to know and do to
rank your website as high as possible among the Google search
results. It foolows recommendations by Google to build a white hat and
spamfree search engine optimisation strategy. There's no need to
implement everything in your porject but do as much as you can.
This technical SEO checklist template works great especially for existing
websites. It doesn't talk about keyword research, domain registration and the
planning before starting a project.
Make sure you save this link to help your next project.
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