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KPIs (Key
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post them on social
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All the information
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on your website is
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Page load time,
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Internal links per
article (max
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article to other
pages with
keyword-relevant
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anchor text
Every page on your
website has an
AMP-enabled
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Every page on your
website has
descriptive URLs
Ads per page
All the public URLs
of your website are
submitted for
indexation
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score
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Images, Video
content, Headings
Synonyms, Similar
expressions, Long-
tail keywords
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reviews/testimonials or user
stories on social media
Keywords rankings
The least the
amount of images
without ALT tags,
the better
Use GSC, the "Structured Data
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Apply Schema.org
markups to pages
containing Use GSC to help you get the
information such as correct markup, head over to the
Locations, Products, "Structured Data Markup Helper"
Services, Events, section
Organization,
Person, Ratings
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HTTP errors
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400, 403, 404, 500
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See if there's any links with
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domains
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