Technical SEO Checklist: Getting a Site Ready for Traffic
When technical SEO isn't set up correctly, even good content can't gain visibility. This checklist helps you find the most critical technical bottlenecks quickly.
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When technical SEO isn't set up correctly, even good content can't gain visibility. This checklist helps you find the most critical technical bottlenecks quickly.
Indexing and Crawlability
Robots, noindex tags, canonical tags, and sitemap consistency are the first places to look. A page being well written doesn't mean it's crawlable.
The Search Console coverage report should be monitored regularly, and soft 404 and duplicate page signals should be resolved early.
Performance and Core Web Vitals
LCP, INP, and CLS metrics aren't just a topic for the technical team; they directly affect conversion rate. Slow-loading pages increase the cost of ad traffic.
Image compression, lazy loading, script deferral, and critical CSS optimization are the core areas for gains.
Schema and Internal Linking
Service, FAQ, Breadcrumb, and Article schema types make richer search result appearances and higher CTR possible.
Without an internal linking hierarchy, page authority stays scattered. Intent-focused links should be built between service, blog, and contact pages.
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