Basic SEO Checklist for Beginners

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Go through Basic SEO Checklist step by step as mentioned below –

1. Set up Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a free tool as you know for tracking your site’s organic search performance. Through GSC (Google search console) you can check various things that are happing with your website. Here are a few things you can do with it:

1. See the keywords you rank for

2. Check ranking positions

3. Find website errors

4. Submit sitemaps

This is just a sample and you can really do more things with the help of GSC and can improve your website ranking as well as performance in the eyes of search engine’s bot

2. Set up Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing Webmaster Tools is essentially Bing’s equivalent of Google Search Console. And this Bing Webmaster Tools you can easily call Bing WMT is a free tool that is owned by Microsoft with allow the webmasters to add their websites to the Bing crawler so they show up in the Bing search engine.

Here are a few things you can do with it:

1. Index your site quickly

2. Inspect your URLs

3. Submit sitemaps

You make sure to know that It helps to monitor and maintain a site’s presence. Bing Webmaster Tools is to the Bing search engine.

3. Set up Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free tool that will help you to analyze your audiences (your website traffic) in terms of where they’re coming from,  how they’re interacting with your site. You can analyze each and every step.

Here are a few things you can do with it:

1. Check real-time traffic

2. Analyze audience

3. Check out acquisition

Webmasters are very able to analyze various things like geographical data, location-wise data, age-wise data, device-wise data, and other multiple factors as well by just install Google analytics help.

4. Create and submit a sitemap

With the help of Sitemaps, search engines can find important content on your website. Result in it, the crawls are able to crawl your web pages and index pages in the search engines database.

5. Create and submit a robots.txt

You may know or not but, the Robots.txt file is a plain text file. And is available on the root directory of every website and you can easily find it just by typing /robots.txt. You know that the robots.txt file tells the search engines where they can visit or where can’t on your website. It is just ordered to the crawlers as per certain parameters that you have set up in the file.