Monitor Website Security
Protect your website from attacks by ensuring a proper security system.
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Optimize Your WordPress Database
Delete unneeded items like revisions and spam comments for an optimized database.
Update WordPress Core, Themes, & Plugins
Keeping your software up-to-date helps protect against security vulnerabilities and gives you enhanced functionality.
Perform Visual Inspection of Your Website
Routinely browse the website to make sure crucial elements look and function properly.
Uptime Monitoring
Identify and investigate any downtime for the month to ensure stability.
Ensure Successful Backups
Ensure your scheduled backups are being completed and test their validity.
Add a Call to Action / Opt-in / Content Upgrade
Tell your readers what to do next by adding a strong call to action, an opt-in, or a content upgrade.
Add Categories and/or Tag(s)
Using categories and tags can improve your website’s organization and help readers find the content they are interested in.
Add Post Excerpt
Hand-crafted manual excerpts help visitors skim your page as they look for relevant content.
Add Outbound Links to Your Posts
Relevant outbound links to high quality websites can improve your website’s relevance.
Add Internal Links to Your Posts
Including links to other articles or pages on your website improves your authority and keeps your reader on your website longer.
Use a Proper Headings Structure
Your heading tags should follow a hierarchical order. Refrain from skipping around randomly. A common mistake new web designers make
Include Semantic Keyword(s)
Visitors might not phrase things exactly like you do. Try using semantic words related to your keyword(s) within your headings and body copy.
Primary Keyword(s) in First 100 Words of Body Copy
While it’s important to refrain from “stuffing” keywords, using your primary keyword(s) in the first 100 words proves to be an effective SEO strategy.
Primary Keyword(s) in Title
When you’re writing a blog post, it’s important to make sure your primary keyword (or phrase) is in the title of the post.
Set Up a Backup Solution
A good backup solution is the ultimate fail-safe against website problems.
Submit to Google Search Console
Optimize the visibility of your website in the world’s largest search engine.
Install Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free, and powerful tool to see how users interact with your website.
Disable “Discourage Search Engines”
WordPress’ built-in feature to keep your website from showing up in search.
Create an XML Sitemap
An XML sitemap is a digital roadmap to tell search engines where to find your pages.
Test Social Sharing Functionality
Your open graph data determines the link preview shown on social media.
Validate HTML Markup
HTML validation provides quality assurance that your HTML is free from syntax errors.
Test Your Website Accessibility
Accessibility refers to the ability for all people, regardless of disability type, to use your website effectively.
Test Your Website Speed
The time it takes your website to load has a major impact on your website’s success.
Activate Website Caching
Caching stores temporary copies of your website to help it load faster and reduce server load.
Test Browser Compatibility
Ensure that your website works on the most popular web browsers.
Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test
Google provides a free tool to tell you if your website is mobile friendly.
Check responsive layouts
Testing your website across multiple screen sizes will help you catch possible errors in layout and user experience.
Test Your Robots.txt File
Your robots.txt file tells web crawlers if they are allowed to crawl your website or not.
Privacy Policy & Terms of Use
Privacy policies are required on most websites by international, federal, state, and local laws.
Copyright Notice in Footer
A simple copyright notice lets visitors know your work is protected by copyright laws. Let’s start this article by pointing
Test Submission Forms, Receipts, & Messages
Manually test any submission forms to ensure the proper user experience.
Optimize Your Images
Appropriately sized and compressed images improve loading time, user experience, and SEO.
Add Image Alt Tags
Alt tags provide a written description of your images for anyone who can’t see them.
Check for Broken Links
Broken links will send visitors nowhere and can cause damage to your SEO.
Set Up Any Necessary Redirections
If you change a page’s URL, a redirection will send traffic from the old address to the new automatically.
Write Meta Descriptions
Meta descriptions are short summaries of each of your pages that display in search results.
Write Page Titles
Your page title appears at the top browser tab and as the hyperlink in search results.
Link Header Logo Back to Homepage
Link your logo in your header to your homepage for improved user experience.
Add a Favicon
Favicons are the small images that appear next to the site title in your browser tab.
Verify Website Title & Tagline
Your title & tagline tell the reader (and search engines!) what your website is about.
Install and Configure an SEO Plugin
SEO plugins simplify the search engine optimization basics.
Set Up Permalinks
Permalinks (or “permanent links”) determine how your URLs are structured.
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