Looking for a perfect On Page Seo Checklist for 2018?? Read this blog and find out what are the major on-page SEO ranking factors of today. On Page Search Engine Optimization has always been the vital part of SEO. It is one of the most important aspects of SEO that works for page ranking. Today’s post contains everything you need to do to rank in google and make a perfect On Page SEO techniques checklist of 2018. If you are going to make a new landing page or improve your pages, you must have a look on this checklist.

Bringing traffic to your website is not so tough if you use exact tactic with correct strategy. Let’s go through the On page SEO checklist of 2018 step by step.

On Page SEO Checklist of Techniques Which Must Not be Avoided!

Before knowing about On Page SEO Tactics, you need to understand what actually the On-Page SEO is. On Page SEO is a practice to optimize every page of your website in such a way that the page gets high ranking in SERP and potential traffic. It’s one of the most important factors to rank your website. Correct use of On Page SEO makes a website Authority.
Let’s see the On-Page SEO factors checklist for 2018 given below.

#1 SEO Friendly URL

When talking about On Page SEO, URL plays an important role in it. You must keep an SEO friendly URL. Optimization of URL should be done as-

• Use Keyword or keyword phrase in the URL naturally.
• Make the URL short.
• Let your URL show information about your page.
• Avoid ugly URL that is self-generated.
• Don’t ever use a different URL for the same page.
• Your post is live, check your robot.txt file and make your URL is going to be indexable.

#2 Title Tag With The Focus Keyword

The title tag is another important SEO factor. This tag tells about your content. If you have written a generic or boring Title, many users will not take interest in reading your post even if you have written a great content. So try to add a catchy title which can attract users. Some tips to make your title tag more interesting-

• Title tag shows what your page is about. So, keep higher relevance with content to your title.
• Use Keyword in Title tag in a natural way. Pages rank very well if Keyword is used properly in Title.
• Use a keyword at the beginning of the title instead of using it in the middle or last.
• Add modifiers to your title such as 2018, best etc. They help to rank in a long tail version of your specific keyword.

#3 Headings - H1, H2, and H3

H1, H2 and H3 tags are the most important part of your content as it tells the crawler about the parts of your content. There should be Only 1 H1 on your page or post and it must include your focus keyword with it. There can be multiple H2 and H3 which should also include the keywords from the keyword family.

Note it that if you are using WordPress then there is no need of H1 tag, You post or page Title is automatically H1 in WordPress.

Divide your content according to headings as shown in the picture below, it will not only make your onpage score better but also increase the readability of your content.

#4 Enrich Your Content With Media

Media works great for engagement as users understand more through images and videos than texts. They also add beauty in your post. Use images, videos or infographic in your post. 

#5 Image Titles and Alt Text

Images used in the content must contain a title and alt text, and alt text is also an opportunity to feed your page or post with keywords, try including your image alt text and title with keyword family and variations. #6 Give Your Site

#6 Structured Data Markup

You should give information to search engine about your site as much as you can. A structured data markup helps you in doing so. It is also known as the Rich Snippet. However, this does not work for every type of content. This information can be reviews, ratings, business etc. Rich Snippets are not directly linked to SEO but can surely help you to increase the CTR which is indeed the most important aspect. 

#7 Include Keyword In First Paragraph

As told above, you should inform the Google/search engine about your site as much as you can. Insert the keyword you are targeting to rank for in the first paragraph of Content.

• Try to cover it in first 100 to 150 words of your post.
• There should be an optimal keyword density (about 1-2 %)
• Using Keyword again and again (keyword stuffing) can lead to severe issues and penalties. JUST DON'T DO IT!

#8 Meta Description

Meta Description is like an ad copy from Google which is free. Here you can define your content more in 150 characters. Google itself is giving you a chance to advertise your content.

Take advantage of 150 characters and utilize them by adding special information such as ‘ a call to action’, note, brand name, featured details about your service or business and don't forget to add your target keyword in the meta description. 

You Must Read: 10 Greatest Tips To Write Killer Meta Description

#9 Internal Linking With Relevant Anchor Text

Internal Linking in any page is much important as it helps the users and search engine to connect to your content and understand the architecture of your website easily.

• Use internal linking in your post with correct and relevant Anchor Text.
• Your goal should be to engage the user and move him around your website.
• Provide various page links in a post but relevancy must be considered.

#10 Use Authority Outbound Links

Outbound links put much effect on your website ranking.

• More than relevancy and ranking in SERP, the outbound link is highly useful as a trust factor.
• It increases the authority of your page
• Remember to use the relevant and authority website for Outbound Link.
• Use correct anchor text for it.
• Outbound link must take the user to the relevant and correct page.

#11 Use Natural and user-friendly/scannable Language

Keywords are important to write in your content but when they come naturally in your language, it put more effect on that.

• The content should use long or short tail keywords several times throughout.
• This is also called LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing in which context relevancy to the keyword is checked by Search Engine.
• Here, Search Engine observes your content relevancy through synonyms and close variant to the keywords.

#12 In Depth Content

Use a detailed piece of content as much as you can.

• An average length of a blog post should be at least 800 -1000.
• It may be hard to write initially, but you can write it in pieces. Write 800-900 words at first time and update this content later to 1200-1400 words.

#13 Boost Site Speed

It is one of the most important factors for your site ranking.

• Website with slow speed can easily be skipped by a user even if it is ranking on top.
• However, if your website loading speed is slow, it cannot rank in SERP. (Read this. )
• Switch to a faster hosting, compress images in your post or you can use CDN also.
• It will be counted as User Experience from your site and User Experience is everything for Google. If it is bad, your website will pay for it.

#14 Use Optimized Images

Try Using Images of less than 100 kb in your posts and pages, if you don't have such images and then you must compress your images before uploading them, Larger Images increase the load on your website which will directly increase the load time. An optimized image also means, proper image name(title) and alt text!

#15 Use Social Sharing Buttons

It may not play a direct role in ranking in SERP but Social Sharing buttons give you more views and users. A combination of SEO and Social Media is a perfect match. It encourages distribution of your content as well as get you more eyeballs.

#16 Responsive Design

Most of the users who read your blog use a mobile phone. And it is necessary to look for their comfort also. From Recent Google Update, a website which does not have Responsive Design will be lowered in SERP. And that is why it has become more important now.

Read This: Mobile SEO Optimization Tips for Better Mobile Search Results

#17 Quality Content

Search Engine doesn’t have any direct way to determine your content quality but they use indirect ways such as-

• Visitors who are coming back to your site
• Bookmarks in chrome if users have your site as well
• Time on your site
• Dwell time
• Google searches for your brand/ service

#18 Better Readability

If your font is too small or difficult to read or page formatting is not good, it can rank lower even if you have the quality content and well-rehearsed SEO in your content. You may get a higher bounce rate which shows Google that your page is not offering value.

#19 Encourage Blog Comments

Google itself has said that having a good community on your site can help you a lot. Encourage people to comment on your blog post and also reply to them as it helps to increase user interaction.

So, this was the on-page SEO checklist for 2018 which definitely will help you to rank better in SERPs.  Better you can satisfy User’s need with you fantastic content, better you will rank in Google.

NOTE: The above-mentioned Checklist is according to 2018 latest updates.

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