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At theMediaFlow we pride ourselves on being insanely detailed technical SEOs. We use a foundation checklist which is adapted from client to client and sector to sector; though in general we always tend to include the items explained here.
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Technical Audit Checklist
STEP 1 Crawl
Check site can be crawled & is indexed Check site can be crawled & is indexed Use a crawling tool: • Screaming Frog • Deepcrawl • Linkdex • Rob Hammond • BeamUsUp Screaming Frog
Check use of Robots Check use of Robots Robots.txt Robots Meta X-Robots-Tag
STEP 2 Integrity
Eliminate Redirects and Broken Links Eliminate Redirects and Broken Links Identify response codes: • 301 • 302 • 403 • 404 • 500 Update links or remove
Complete additional checks on site integrity Complete additional checks on site integrity Canonisation Does the site use the canonical tag? Check across www and non-www Check Site Speed Check G.A Crawl Errors and Stats Remove all junk from Source code Review all outbound links
STEP 3 De-Dupe
Check for all forms of duplicate content Check for all forms of duplicate content Check for dupe titles & headings Use Copyscape to identify any dupe domains/scraped content. Utilise Pagination on site for related pages.
STEP 4 Optimise
Optimise on page content Optimise on page content Map keywords to pages Check URL Structure Titles, Meta, Alt Text
STEP 5 Refine
Mark Mark- -Up pages for rich snippets Up pages for rich snippets
STEP 6 Repeat
Download the Checklist http://www.themediaflow.com/tools