The Ultimate SEO Checklist for 2025

The Ultimate SEO Checklist for 2025

Nathan Gotch via YouTube Direct link

00:00:00 - Intro

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The Ultimate SEO Checklist for 2025

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  1. 1 00:00:00 - Intro
  2. 2 00:00:23 - Are you tracking SEO performance?
  3. 3 00:01:57 - Are you tracking the right SEO KPIs?
  4. 4 00:05:21 - Is the website crawlable and indexable?
  5. 5 00:05:43 - Is your website mobile-friendly?
  6. 6 00:06:13 - Does your website load fast?
  7. 7 00:06:48 - Do you have an SSL certificate, and is it working properly?
  8. 8 00:07:19 - Is the website design modern and updated?
  9. 9 00:08:00 - Is your website using aggressive interstitial popups?
  10. 10 00:10:32 - Does your website use aggressive ad placements?
  11. 11 00:11:11 - Does your website have trust pages?
  12. 12 00:13:38 - Does your website have detailed author bios?
  13. 13 00:14:35 - Do you have pages deindexed that shouldn’t be?
  14. 14 00:15:37 - Is your website bloated?
  15. 15 00:18:47 - Does your website have bloated pages?
  16. 16 00:23:17 - Does your website have thin content?
  17. 17 00:24:01 - Does your website have outdated content?
  18. 18 00:25:10 - Does your website have pages with an engagement rate of 20?
  19. 19 00:26:21 - Does every page on your website have one title tag and one H1
  20. 20 00:27:30 - Does your website have a significant amount of spelling and grammar errors?
  21. 21 00:28:44 - Do you have pages with backlinks but no traffic?
  22. 22 00:30:23 - Do you have 404 pages with backlinks?
  23. 23 00:30:51 - Are all of your pages less than three clicks deep into your architecture?
  24. 24 00:35:48 - Do your pages have enough internal link coverage?
  25. 25 00:37:39 - Are you leveraging your most powerful pages for internal linking?
  26. 26 00:38:21 - Does your website have redirect chains?
  27. 27 00:39:04 - Does your website have duplicate content?
  28. 28 00:40:29 - Does your website have a significant number of broken links?
  29. 29 00:41:12 - Does your website have a significant amount of AI content?
  30. 30 00:42:19 - Is the H1 tag above the fold?
  31. 31 00:43:58 - Are heading tags structured correctly?
  32. 32 00:45:08 - Is your primary keyword in the URL?
  33. 33 00:46:57 - Is the keyword in the Title Tag?
  34. 34 00:47:07 - Is the keyword in the Meta Description?
  35. 35 00:47:27 - Is the keyword in the H1?
  36. 36 00:47:41 - Is the keyword in the First Sentence?
  37. 37 00:47:57 - Is the keyword in the first H2?
  38. 38 00:48:18 - Is the content 50% original?
  39. 39 00:52:10 - Is the content 100% unique outside of the domain?
  40. 40 00:52:50 - Is the content 100% unique relative to other pages on the website?
  41. 41 00:53:19 - Is the word count sufficient?
  42. 42 00:54:49 - Does the content have a 95 + Grammarly score
  43. 43 00:55:20 - Is the page optimized well for NLP?
  44. 44 00:57:14 - Does the page/content satisfy the intent?
  45. 45 00:59:31 - Does content strategy/angle add unique value relative to the competitors?
  46. 46 01:05:06 - Is the content up-to-date?
  47. 47 01:07:28 - Is the page readable, scannable, and easy to digest?
  48. 48 01:09:33 - Does the content have 100% unique, high-quality images and videos to break it up?
  49. 49 01:12:55 - Is the content helpful?
  50. 50 01:14:52 - Is the content original?
  51. 51 01:16:28 - Is the content accurate?
  52. 52 01:19:14 - Is the content safe?
  53. 53 01:20:38 - Does the content demonstrate a high degree of effort?
  54. 54 01:23:18 - Is the content written and/or fact-checked by an SME?
  55. 55 01:24:44 - Is the SME prominently displayed?
  56. 56 01:25:37 - Does each author have a dedicated and detailed author page?
  57. 57 01:26:35 - Are all sources of information cited?
  58. 58 01:27:38 - Does the content demonstrate first-hand experience?
  59. 59 01:29:52 - Does the content demonstrate the in-the-field experience?
  60. 60 01:31:15 - How well does the content share a personal experience, perspective, or feelings on a topic?
  61. 61 01:32:20 - How well does the content speak from a first-person perspective?
  62. 62 01:32:51 - Does content demonstrate that it was produced with some degree of experience, such as actual product use, visiting a place, or communicating what a person experienced?
  63. 63 01:34:13 - Is the page built for goal completions?
  64. 64 01:35:32 - Do you have user-tracking software installed?
  65. 65 01:37:42 - Is the page using correct schema markup?
  66. 66 01:40:03 - Are there any other pages on our website targeting this keyword keyword cannibalization?
  67. 67 01:42:26 - Does the page have 5 + unique internal links excluding the navigation?
  68. 68 01:43:38 - Is the internal anchor text optimized well?
  69. 69 01:44:48 - Does the page have as many internal links as the top competitor?
  70. 70 01:46:01 - Is the page no more 3 clicks deep into the architecture?
  71. 71 01:47:10 - Does the page have at least 5 supporting assets?

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