1. Check your contact information and contact forms
Check all your contact information and particularly that your contact forms are working. Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have all upped their basic requirements for email delivery so make sure you have a proper verification system in place. I like fluentsmtp as it’s free and has good set up documentation.
2. Check your links
Check all your links both internal and external. The external ones can change over time so good to make sure they are still current. Google will downgrade your site if there are too many broken links. You can use this handy wordpress broken link checker plugin to help
3. Read your website content
Read your website content carefully and check it still reflects your business. Check all the grammar and spelling.
4. Review your website stats
Look at your website stats – see what works best, where your visitors are coming from and where they visit the most – use it in your marketing planning.
5. Review your keywords
Are your latest keywords still included in your titles and content? We can help you with keyword research if you need us.
6. Is your site responsive?
Check that is works properly on a range of screen sizes using this handy tool http://responsivetesttool.com/
7. Check your page loading speeds for desktop and for mobile
2-3 secs or less is best. There are free online tools to do this for example this is Google’s Just reducing images sizes can make a big difference.
8. How up-to-date is your blog?
Research show active blogs attract 55% more visitors and 97% more inbound links. Plan your blog posts for the rest of the year and start researching them.
9. Get a technical SEO review
Make sure all your tags are in place, and your titles and meta descriptions are current.
10. Get some new images
Freshen up the look and feel with some new images— make sure you tag them properly. There’s lots of free image libraries out there or take your own.
