Optimize the on-page SEO

When starting an SEO strategy, after quick keyword research, time to do SEO on-page optimization!

Key aspect of the on-page SEO: you have full control over.

It doesn’t mean that you will magically rank high enough to generate traffic from the search engine, especially for competitive terms. Many other factors depend on it and Google team keep their algorithmic recipe secret.

However, optimizing your on-page SEO is the foundation to higher search engine ranking.

Checklist of actions (๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡) from top to bottom of page.

There are some variations depending on the content type of course. A recipe type page is different from a product detail page. Behind each content, the user intent is, for example, different.

But in this checklist, there are some general items to focus on.

Suggested pre-requisite:

  • Complete the keywords research
  • Define search intent (the reason behind the searcher’s query)

URL

Headings

H1

H2

Meta title

Only visible from the source code

Meta description

Only visible from the source code

Image

Before uploading let’s prepare the image.

Image filename

Image file size