Following is a list of back-end technical items related to search engine robots that must be addressed if you want your company website to perform well and outperform your competitors in the major search engines. As part of your Organic Search Engine Optimization Program, the items below should be thoroughly reviewed, and appropriate recommendations made, in a professional SEO Site Review.
- Site Architecture and Applications — This deals with your web server (e.g., Apache, Microsoft IIS, Sun) and the program languages used on your site (e.g., HTML, asp, php, jsp). A look into your web hosting (e.g., dedicated or shared) and your database technology (e.g., MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL). It also covers investigation of your web applications such as content management systems, site search, directories, and shopping carts. Consideration for how you set-up your cookies and sessions (human vs. spider). A check of your HTTP response headers looking at proper use of 404 error pages. Complete review of basics such as your contact information, FAQ, privacy policy, various resources, site map and number of links on a site map page.
- Site Navigation – A look at your image maps and image links, javascript and DHTML and how they are organized on the page. Consideration for your text links and form based navigation, redirection 301, 302 pages and META refresh. A look at the effectiveness and placement of your global navigation and functional sections such as news, forums, shopping, etc. A review of site search functionality, usability and logs.
- Document Structure – A review of your title tags, META description and META keywords. A look at your page layout CSS and tables. Proper headings (H1, H2 and page structure). The effect of pop-ups and browser compatibility such as AOL, IE, Mozilla, Netscape, etc. The effect of any plug-Ins, Flash or Java, scripts and stylesheets.
- Keyword Strategy & Copywriting – An analysis of your primary themes and search terms, your supporting keywords and their optimization and effectiveness in your current content. How you are using landing pages and their URLS. A look at your internal links (cross-linking) also related to the use of keywords and their placement. A look at keywords and placement in outbound links.
- Search Engine Positioning – Index saturation: the number of pages found and/or indexed in Google and the crawlability of the site. Identify potential duplicate content and review link popularity, link quality and relevance. Check PageRank on Google toolbar and directory listings such as DMOZ and Yahoo.
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