This article has been contributed by Faizan Khamisani.
There are many benefits to SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and tons of on-page SEO techniques that we can use for each of our websites, some that often get overlooked. So, here is a checklist of the most important techniques that we can use for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and beyond.
Editor’s note: Some of these have been around for a while but they are always good as a refresher.
Title Tag
The best and most effective way to use the title tag is to not to make the title tag longer than 70 characters. The title should be according to your page; try to use the long phrased keyword within the title tag.
Description Tag
Use this tag smartly. Describe your page content and try to use your most competitive keywords in the text. Use no more than 160 characters.
Keywords Tag
We all know that Google stated that this tag does not affect your rankings but there are many SEOs, who still use this tag for other search engines. Target your 5 most competitive keywords within the tag.
HX (Heading) Tags
Use HX tags with each of your main article headings / sections. Use h1 for the main headings and the rest in h2, h3, h4 and so on. Try use your keywords in the headings and highlight them in the eye of search engines with these HX tags.
Images
Optimize each image with ALT and Title tags. Image name can also be optimized; try to use the keywords smartly within the tags as well.
Search Engine Friendly URLs
Try not to use signs like &, Spaces, ?, etc in your URLs otherwise it can come across as spammy. Ask your developer to make the URLs look easy to read, short and clean.
Quality Content Is King
As we all know “Content is King” in the SEO industry, so we can’t ignore this one. Each page should have a minimum of 500 words of great quality content.
Navigation
Make sure your navigation is crawlable, whether it be text or image based.
JavaScript/CSS External
Externalize the JS and CSS codes to make your website pages load faster. Take this with a grain of salt as it’s not always the best choice in any case. Sometimes it’s better to use pregressively inline JS and CSS for faster rendering and perceived time.
Internal linking
Internal linking will help you to engage your customers within the website. Internal linking will also help you to control the bounce rate as well.
External pages
Adding links to external high quality website (not just popular) resources builds a good relation in the eye of search engines and this trust will help the websites to get higher positions on search engines.
Geo-tagging
Use geo-tagging to let your users and search engines see your actual business location.
Authorship Markups
Use authorship to take the ownership of the content you publish on your website.
Sociability
Add social media buttons to encourage your readers to share your website’s content on their profiles. Websites with social signals can get better rankings in search engines.
XML SiteMap
Create xml sitemap and add each of your website in it. You can submit to sitemap in Google and Bing webmaster tools to make your website index soon.
Robots.txt
Updated: The robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl and index pages on their website.
Analytics
Make sure you have added and setup the analytics code so you can properly analyze your website.
Webmaster Tools
Add and verify the ownership of your websites via Google Webmaster Tools. These webmaster tools will also help to analyze the on-page validations.
Xenu (Broken Links)
Xenu is free software to find broken links within your web pages. Find and fix those broken links as soon as you find them.
Hosting
A website hosting server should be up and running 24/7, with at least 99.9% uptime. A website with too much downtime can be de-indexed from and won’t be able to rank higher on search engines.
Have any more SEO tips for 2014 to share?
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Faizan Khamisani is a Blogger and SEO Expert from a SEO company; you can contact him anytime on Twitter and Google+.
I hope in 2014 as a SEO to not see post like this anymore.
For beginners it’s not bad :). It gives you a hint of what your meant to do.
Regards,
Yakare
Except the fact that the article is really poor it contains also some big errors.
>>> ERROR #1
“Use a robots file to block pages you don’t want to index in search engines.”
Robots.txt file is not intended to prevent indexing, but it’s crawling related.
>>> ERROR #2
“Adding links to external high quality website resources builds a good relation in the eye of search engines and this trust will help the websites to get higher positions on search engines.”
This is the ruin of the web. The link should not go to the high quality website only beacause it’s a big website, but shoul go to the better resource for that argument!
The resource not the website.
This way of thinking leaded to linking always big brand websites or Wikipedia even if they contain often really crap resources.
This leaded also to the bad practice of linking automatically such websites.
>>> ERROR #3
“As we all know “Content is King” in the SEO industry, so we can’t ignore this one. Each page should have a minimum of 500 words of great quality content.”
Oh my God! Please stop associating a number of words to great content!
>>> ERROR #4
“Make your navigations text based. Don’t use images or animations that search engines can’t crawl.”
You can make anything crawlable. Tha fact that you aren’t able to make it correct from a technical point of view doesn’t mean that you must not use images or animations.
>>> ERROR #5
“Externalize the JS and CSS codes to make your website pages load faster.”
It depends. It’s not always the best choice in any case.
Sometimes it’s better to pregressively inline JS and CSS for faster rendering and perceived time.
>>> ERROR #6
“Schemas (structured data) will help the pages to get higher rankings on Google, Bing, and Yahoo.”
Absolutely false. Structured markup only helps machine to understand better what the page is about, but not necessary to rank it higher (that doesn’t mean anything…where, why, for which key…).
Hi Andrea,
Excuse my delay in response, I away over the holidays. I appreciate you pointing out some of the questionable points. I have updated the article reflecting some of the points.
1. Updated Robots.txt to reflect real meaning.
2. Links to “external high quality website resources” is a matter of interpretation… A high quality resource could refer to any piece of content not just a website.
3. A page or article that has less than 500 words can be great content, but wouldn’t having less than this be deemed by search engines to be less valuable?
4. I updated the sentence to read “Make sure your navigation is crawlable, whether it be text or image based. ”
5. I updated this based on your suggestion, thanks!
6. Removed schemas.
I’ve also updated the title to remove the 2014.
Thanks Jacob,
Very much appreciated. I think it’s important when writing about SEO to tell things correctly cause there are lots of snake oil salesman all around.
Thank you for taking the time to rectify these points
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Hi, thanks for providing such great SEO information. All of the above tips are very helpful for SEO. Great for beginners!
after I observed, with only rely on social media such as facebook, Google + and pinterest can also improve the PA and DA, and can also boost traffic.
Hi Faizan,
We all know that content is king or I would say quality content is king. But there are numerous number of webmasters who claims that having content more than 1000 words increases your chances to rank higher. They claim so because having long article means brief content and explains each point thoroughly.
Thanks for taking time to compile this quick guide. It is quite comprehensive and is just about what everybody in this field needs to know.
Nice list here Faizan, on page SEO is far more important than many realise!
And thanks for including my post on image SEO.
Have an awesome 2014
ashley
Thanks Ashley and no worries for the link, thanks for the great content!
I read these tips in 2010 too. Are you living in 2010 faizan? Above 21 tips, not a single one is new! Old crap!
Hi Maddy,
Although these are not all *new* tips they are all very relevant in 2014 which is why they have been posted.
Thank you for the tips! Although I don’t agree with all of it, I’ll use the ones I think are right.
This information is still relevant, to anyone just getting started in design/development/SEO. Thanks for sharing Jacob 🙂
If the website On page SEO is good then we don’t need to spend much of hours on Off page SEO because Google first see the On page SEO of the website.
The above info is also good for the beginners who just start their career in internet marketing.
Hi, thanks for providing such great SEO on Page and off page information. All of the above tips are very helpful for SEO.
Thank you, Jacob. I’ve learned a lot from your seo tips list. I’m going to try some of them and hoping it will work for me.
thanks for sharing these useful tips ….i really appreciate your post as well as your site
Its really hard to find informative info but here I can… Pretty nice post. I just wanted to say that I have truly enjoyed browsing your blog posts. In any case I’ll be subscribing and I hope you write again soon..
after I read, I am interested in doing a thing to try my own recipe SEO.
Thank you for the knowledge.
You can add using rich snippets in this list. Google has a structured data markup tool specifically for schema formats.
Another great blog!
Whilst we already use the above SEO techniques, it’s nice to see them in a list like this because it helps to break them down a bit better and validates that we’re doing what works. I was reading Andrea’s comment and was going to say that I couldn’t see any of those mistakes but then read your response that they had been fixed up – great to see people so on the ball, it stops the wrong information from being spread!
Some people consider that only putting meta information in your website make it ready for search engine optimization. This is totally wrong because you need to optimize every pager, every internal link as well as image of your website. Your 21 tips for on page optimization not only make a website perfect for SEO but also assure quick ranking on search engines. WordPress has lot of SEO plugins which are doing good job of putting meta information as well as Alt attributes in images. Very helpful tips 🙂
Nice post! I believe one important SEO factor for 2014 is to have rich content on the pages. Provede content for your audience not for search engines. Add images and video. This would keep the visitors on your pages for longer time and hence reduce the bounce rate which in turn will help improve rankings
All of the points are very important. Strong on page optimization helps you to ctreate strong off page optimization also.
Nice comprehensive yet simple seo list. Thanks.
nice tips here. However, some of the tips are no longer effective anymore. Please update to the newest tips and tricks in this year.
HI ,
Great and clean information about ON- Page. All tips is awesome and helpful.
Thanks for share….!!
Nice post ! I think one more useful and necessary tip for SEO is ‘mobile optimization’ now a days search engines have started giving preference to those site who are optimized for mobiles as well.. what you people say ? AM I Right or Wrong?
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You can add exploitation made snippets during this list. Google contains a structured knowledge markup tool specifically for schema formats.
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Jacob Cass, Fab post, you mentioned all points of on-page Seo. May Seo people didn’t following it. But I Tell the readers follow these techniques but doesn’t ignore off-page Seo. Remember on-page is 30 percent and off-page is 70 percent part of Seo.
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Hi Jacob.
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Regards,
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Hi Jacob,
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I’m doing the tips that you give, hopefully successfully, thank you.
Thanks for information… good job bro
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Thank you for this valuable article,
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