├── LICENSE └── README.md /LICENSE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | The MIT License (MIT) 2 | 3 | Copyright (c) 2017 Douglas Rosa @douglasanro 4 | 5 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 6 | of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 7 | in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 8 | to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 9 | copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 10 | furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 11 | 12 | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 13 | copies or substantial portions of the Software. 14 | 15 | THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 16 | IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 17 | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 18 | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 19 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 20 | OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 21 | SOFTWARE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # WordPress SEO Checklist 2 | 3 | > A simple checklist to improve your WordPress site Ranking. 4 | 5 | ## General 6 | 7 | - [ ] Strict usage of domain with or without www 8 | - [ ] Install Google Analytics 9 | - [ ] Setup Google Search Console 10 | - [ ] Setup permalink structure with Post Name (Friendly URLs) 11 | - [ ] Install a WordPress SEO Plugin (Yoast SEO) 12 | - [ ] Pages can be indexed 13 | - [ ] HTTPS is used on all pages 14 | - [ ] Sitemap is available (Yoast SEO) 15 | - [ ] Remove tags from sitemap 16 | - [ ] Don't index image attachment pages 17 | - [ ] Send sitemap to Google Search Console 18 | - [ ] Robots.txt is available 19 | - [ ] Structured data is used where possible 20 | - [ ] Test structured data (Google structured data testing tool) 21 | - [ ] Social markup 22 | - [ ] Breadcrumbs 23 | - [ ] 404 page is available 24 | - [ ] Correct language set in HTML tag 25 | - [ ] Charset is set 26 | - [ ] HTML is valid 27 | - [ ] Is mobile friendly (Google's mobile friendly testing tool) 28 | 29 | ## Resources 30 | 31 | - [ ] JavaScript combined in one file 32 | - [ ] JavaScript minified 33 | - [ ] JavaScript is compressed 34 | - [ ] No JavaScript inline 35 | - [ ] CSS combined in one file 36 | - [ ] CSS minified 37 | - [ ] CSS is compressed 38 | - [ ] CSS: No usage of @import 39 | - [ ] No CSS inline 40 | - [ ] HTML minified 41 | - [ ] Static files are compressed with gzip or brotli 42 | - [ ] Static files are pre-compressed on the server 43 | - [ ] HTML is compressed with gzip or brotli 44 | - [ ] Usage of correct image formats 45 | - [ ] Usage of responsive images 46 | - [ ] Images are optimized (TinyPNG for WordPress) 47 | - [ ] Image are cached in the browser 48 | - [ ] SVG files are minized 49 | - [ ] SVG files are used where possible 50 | - [ ] Only fonts that are used are loaded 51 | - [ ] Browser cache is used efficiently 52 | - [ ] Expires, cache-control and max-age headers for static resources is set to 1 year 53 | 54 | ## Content 55 | 56 | - [ ] Header tags used 57 | - [ ] Meta descriptions used 58 | - [ ] All images have alt text 59 | - [ ] Add internal links (at least 3-5 links) 60 | - [ ] Add external links (at least 2 links) 61 | - [ ] All external links open in new tab or window 62 | - [ ] No Duplicate Content 63 | - [ ] Focus keyword optimization 64 | - [ ] Title 65 | - [ ] First paragraph 66 | - [ ] Permalink 67 | - [ ] Image alt text 68 | - [ ] Content 69 | - [ ] Meta description 70 | - [ ] Yoast analysis of all post 71 | 72 | 73 | ## License 74 | [MIT License](LICENSE) © WordPress SEO Checklist --------------------------------------------------------------------------------