You’re building your idea, and you want the world to know!
Here are some checkboxes to rank your freshly-baked Site or Blog posts on Google Search and let your customers find you.
▢ Create an account, and add your site to it
▢ Provide a Sitemap (a list of the pages of your site) - most website builders provide it in settings, and it is published on yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
▢ Index new pages you create - go to the “Coverage” tab, and past the URL of the page you want to index
▢ Business added on Google Maps (add here) - it greatly boosts Google search results - can use office or home address
Title & Meta
▢ Target keyword is in the <title> tag
▢ Target keyword is in the <meta> description (short description)
▢ Title Tag <60 characters
▢ Target keyword is in the URL slug
In-Post
▢ Ensure target keyword is in the first <h1>
▢ Keyword or synonyms in other header tags (<h2>, <h3>, etc.)
▢ Check the ideal length of the post in that category (minimum 300 words)
▢ Target keyword appears in the first paragraph of the post
▢ Your keyword (or synonyms — Google recognizes them now) is used other times throughout the page (your keyword density is between .5% and 2.5%)
▢ Add <alt> tags to all the images in the blog post that contain target keyword
▢ Tinypng all the images
Links
▢ Add links to this article (where relevant) to past articles
Editing
▢ Edit using Grammarly
▢ Edit using the Hemingway Editor
