{"id":4102,"date":"2016-01-21T11:44:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.process.st\/templates\/website-seo-optimization-checklist\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:20:28","slug":"website-seo-optimization-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.process.st\/templates\/website-seo-optimization-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Website SEO Optimisation (Quick Setup Guide)"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"this-checklist-compliments-website-seo-checklist-long-version\">\n<h2>[This checklist compliments Website SEO Checklist (Long Version)]<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"seo\">\n<h2>SEO:<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"title-tag\">\n<h2>Title Tag<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Ideally, your&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2014\/07\/15-title-tag-optimization-guidelines-usability-seo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">title tag<\/a>&nbsp;should contain between 10 and 70 characters (spaces included).<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your title is explicit and contains your&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2014\/07\/15-title-tag-optimization-guidelines-usability-seo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most important keywords<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure that each page has a unique title.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2014\/07\/15-title-tag-optimization-guidelines-usability-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">15 Title Tag Optimization Guidelines For Usability And SEO<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"google-preview\">\n<h2>Google Preview<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>What your Title Tag and Meta Description will look like in Google\u2122 search results.<\/p>\n<p>While Title Tags &amp; Meta Descriptions are used to build the search result listings, the search engines may create their own if they are missing, not well written, or not relevant to the content on the page.<\/p>\n<p>Title Tags and Meta Descriptions are cut short if they are too long, so it's important to stay within the suggested character limits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title Tags 60 characters<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Meta Descriptions 120 characters<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"headings\">\n<h2>Headings<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Websites should&nbsp;use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woorank.com\/en\/p\/headings-tags\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HTML headings<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/html401\/struct\/global.html#edef-H1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&lt;H1&gt; to &lt;H6&gt;<\/a>) but beware of&nbsp;too many HTML headings.<\/p>\n<p>Use your keywords in the headings and make sure the first level (&lt;H1&gt;) includes your most important keywords.<\/p>\n<p>While it is important to ensure every page has an &lt;H1&gt; tag, never include more than one per page. Instead, use multiple &lt;H2&gt; - &lt;H6&gt; tags.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woorank.com\/en\/p\/headings-tags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How to Use HTML Heading Tags - a Quick Guide<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"alt-attribute\">\n<h2>Alt Attribute<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Alternative text (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alt_attribute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the alt attribute<\/a>) is required for all&nbsp;images. Add alternative text so that search engines can better understand the content of your images.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that search engine crawlers cannot actually &quot;see&quot; images, so the alternative text attribute allows you to assign a specific description to each image. They are also used by screen readers to help provide some context for the visually impaired.<\/p>\n<p>Adding alternative text can help to reinforce how relevant a page is to its target keywords, while also making images more likely to be displayed in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2122 Images<\/a>&nbsp;search results.<\/p>\n<p>Check the images on your website and make sure \u202a<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/01\/image-alt-text-relevant-for-seo-and-usability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u202c\u202ceffective alternative text<\/a>&nbsp;is specified for each image.<\/p>\n<p>Restrict the number of characters in alt text to 150, including spaces, and minimize the size of images to optimize your website's page load times.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alt_attribute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is Alt Attribute<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/01\/image-alt-text-relevant-for-seo-and-usability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Image Alt Attribute\u2013 Relevant for SEO and Usability?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"texthtml-ratio\">\n<h2>Text\/HTML Ratio<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>This page's ratio of text to HTML code between&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/03\/are-text-to-html-ratios-important\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25 and 70 percent is ideal<\/a>. When it goes beyond that, the page might run the risk of being considered as spam.<\/p>\n<p>As long as the \u202a<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/01\/6-seo-tips-for-website-content\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u202c\u202ccontent is relevant<\/a>&nbsp;and gives essential information, it is a plus to have more of it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"indexed-pages\">\n<h2>Indexed Pages<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>This is the number of pages on your website that are indexed by search engines. It's important to aim to have all of your web pages crawled and indexed by the search engines, as this gives you more opportunity for your website to be found.<\/p>\n<p>A low number (relative to the total number of pages\/URLs on your website) indicates that there is an issue, whether it's due to a bad internal linking structure, or you're unknowingly preventing search engines from crawling your pages.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your website's&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woorank.com\/en\/p\/xml-sitemaps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XML sitemap<\/a>&nbsp;is present and you have submitted it to the major search engines.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/03\/how-to-build-links-to-your-inner-pages\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Building backlinks<\/a>&nbsp;to your website's internal pages will also help bots to discover,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/05\/11-steps-to-get-your-site-indexed-on-google\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crawl and index<\/a>&nbsp;them, while building authority to help them rank in the search engines.<\/p>\n<p>Check&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2122 Search Console<\/a>&nbsp;under 'Google Index' and 'Crawl' to keep track of the status of your site's indexed\/crawled pages.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"inpage-links\">\n<h2>In-Page Links<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>While there's no exact limit to the number of links you should include on a page, best practice is to avoid exceeding 200 links.<\/p>\n<p>Links&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woorank.com\/en\/p\/link-juice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pass value from one page to another<\/a>, but the amount of value that can be passed is split between all of the links on a page. This means that adding unnecessary links will dilute the potential value attributed to your other links.<\/p>\n<p>Using the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/03\/how-can-you-use-the-nofollow-attribute-to-your-advantage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nofollow<\/a>&nbsp;attribute prevents value from being passed to the linking page, but it's worth noting that these links are still taken into account when calculating the value that is passed through each link, so Nofollow links can also dilute pagerank.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"broken-links\">\n<h2>Broken Links<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Broken links send users to non-existing web pages. They are bad for your site's usability, reputation and SEO. If you find broken links in the future, take the time to replace or remove each one.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"url-rewrite\">\n<h2>URL Rewrite<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/05\/url-optimization-5-best-practices-for-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">URL Optimization: 5 Best Practices for SEO<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-content\">\n<figure>\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.process.st\/templates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hbfEFiNS510WMIXi_zNPrA.png\" alt=\"URL Rewrite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.process.st\/templates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hbfEFiNS510WMIXi_zNPrA.png\" \/> <\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"underscores-in-the-urls\">\n<h2>Underscores in the URLs<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>We have detected&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/04\/underscores-in-urls-why-are-they-not-recommended\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">underscores<\/a>&nbsp;(these_are_underscores) in this URL and\/or in your in-page URLs. You should instead use hyphens (these-are-hyphens) to optimize your SEO.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Google\u2122 treats hyphens as word separators, it does not for underscores.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"blocking-factors\">\n<h2>Blocking Factors<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Flash should only be used for specific enhancements. Although Flash content often looks nicer, it cannot be&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=72746\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">properly indexed<\/a>&nbsp;by search engines. Avoid full Flash websites to maximize SEO. This advice also applies to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ajax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJAX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frames can cause problems on your web page because&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/34445?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">search engines<\/a>&nbsp;will not crawl or index the content within them. Avoid frames whenever possible and use a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/present\/frames.html#h-16.4.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NoFrames tag<\/a>&nbsp;if you must use them.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"blog\">\n<h2>Blog<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Starting a blog is a great way to engage with your audience and increase your online visibility by attracting qualified traffic from new sources.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/jacquelinechong.com\/checklist-online-marketing-advanced-content-promotion-checklist-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Please check our Advanced Content Promotion Checklist for more tips<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"competitor-websites-analysis\">\n<h2>Competitor Websites Analysis<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Use tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.similarweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Similar Web<\/a> to learn more about your competitors' web marketing strategies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"usability\">\n<h2>Usability:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Favicons improve a brand's visibility. As a favicon is especially important for users bookmarking your website, make sure it is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2013\/05\/favicons-for-branding-and-usability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consistent with your brand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"favicon\">\n<h2>Favicon<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"custom-404-page\">\n<h2>Custom 404 Page<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Take advantage of the opportunity to provide a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2014\/04\/404-error-pages-customization-best-examples-best-practices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beautiful<\/a>&nbsp;404 Error Page for your visitors.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2014\/04\/404-error-pages-customization-best-examples-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&nbsp;40 Great 404 Error Pages<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"langauge\">\n<h2>Langauge<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Use the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/tags\/tag_meta.asp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">META Language Attribute<\/a>&nbsp;to declare the intended language of your website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2014\/08\/top-10-pitfalls-of-international-seo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tips<\/a>&nbsp;for multilingual websites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/International\/questions\/qa-html-language-declarations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Define the language<\/a>&nbsp;of the content in each page's HTML code.<\/li>\n<li>Specify the language code in the URL as well (e.g., &quot;mywebsite.com\/fr\/mycontent.html&quot;).<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"structured-data-markup\">\n<h2>Structured Data Markup<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Structured Data Markup is used to generate&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woorank.com\/2012\/12\/rich-snippets-what-why-and-how-to-implement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Snippets<\/a>&nbsp;in search engine results. It is a way for website owners to send structured data to search engine robots; helping them to understand your content and create well-presented search results.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2122 supports a number of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/structured-data\/rich-snippets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rich snippets<\/a>&nbsp;for content types, including:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/structured-data\/rich-snippets\/reviews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/structured-data\/rich-snippets\/products\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Products<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Businesses and Organizations<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/structured-data\/rich-snippets\/recipes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recipes<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/structured-data\/rich-snippets\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Events&nbsp;<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/structured-data\/rich-snippets\/videos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Videos<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/MusicRecording\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Music<\/a>. If your website covers one of these topics, then we suggest that you annotate it with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/docs\/gs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Schema.org<\/a>using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/structured-data\/schema-org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">microdata<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"trust-indicators\">\n<h2>Trust Indicators<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;About us&quot; page<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Privacy Policy&quot; page<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Disclaimer&quot; page<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Cookies policy&quot; alert<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"technologies\">\n<h2>Technologies:<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"server-uptime\">\n<h2>Server Uptime<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"technologies-2\">\n<h2>Technologies<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Get to know the technologies used for your website. Some codes might slow down your website. Ask your webmaster to take a look at this.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"speed-tips\">\n<h2>Speed Tips<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Website speed has a huge impact on performance, affecting user experience, conversion rates and even rankings. \u202a\u202c\u202cBy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woorank.com\/en\/p\/page-load-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reducing page load-times<\/a>, users are less likely to get distracted and the search engines are more likely to reward you by ranking your pages higher in the SERPs.<\/p>\n<p>Conversion rates are far higher for websites that load faster than their slower competitors.<\/p>\n<p>See&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/speed\/docs\/insights\/rules\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google's PageSpeed Insights Rules<\/a>&nbsp;for more information on how to improve each of the elements in this section.<\/p>\n<p>An example:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Perfect, your server is using a caching method to speed up page display.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Perfect, your website doesn't use nested tables.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Too bad, your website is using inline styles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Perfect, your website has few CSS files.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Perfect, your website has few JavaScript files.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Too bad, your website does not take advantage of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gzip\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gzip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"analytics\">\n<h2>Analytics<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Web analytics let you measure visitor activity on your website. You should have at least one analytics tool installed, but It can also be good to install a second in order to cross-check the data.<\/p>\n<p>Popular Analytics Tools Include:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2122 Analytics<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantcast.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quantcast\u2122<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/marketing-cloud\/web-analytics.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AdobeAnalytics\u2122<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/piwik.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Piwik\u2122<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chartbeat.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chartbeat\u2122<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/clicky.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clicky\u2122<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clicktale.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ClickTale\u2122<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"w3c-validity\">\n<h2>W3C Validity<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Consortium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">W3C<\/a>is a consortium that sets web standards.<\/p>\n<p>Using valid markup that contains no errors is important because syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index. Run the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/check?uri=www.hl-insurance.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">W3C validation service<\/a>&nbsp;whenever changes are made to your website's code.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"doctype\">\n<h2>Doctype<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>The Doctype is used to instruct web browsers about the document type being used. For example, what version of HTML the page is written in.<\/p>\n<p>Declaring a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/tags\/tag_DOCTYPE.asp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doctype<\/a>&nbsp;helps web browsers to render content correctly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"encoding\">\n<h2>Encoding<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Specifying language\/character encoding can prevent problems with the rendering of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Character_encoding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">special characters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"ssl-secure\">\n<h2>SSL Secure<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Modern websites tend to be SSL secured (HTTPS) as it provides an extra security layer while logging in to your Web Service. In 2014,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.be\/2014\/08\/https-as-ranking-signal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2122 announced<\/a>&nbsp;that an HTTPS (vs HTTP) website would receive an extra boost in their ranking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While switching to HTTPS, make sure your site remains optimized and see to it that your website will still run quickly. Follow these best practices for a smooth transition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use a serious issuer to purchase your SSL certificate<\/li>\n<li>Redirect all of your HTTP pages to the HTTPS version of your website<\/li>\n<li>Use a Security Token Service (STS) in your headers<\/li>\n<li>Renew your SSL certificate every year, before it expires<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that all of your content (CSS, etc.) is linked to HTTPS<\/li>\n<li>Update your XML sitemap to ensure the URLs include HTTPS and update the robots.txt file to reference this version<\/li>\n<li>Register the HTTPS website in Google &amp; Bing Search Console\/Webmaster Tools<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"backlinks\">\n<h2>Backlinks:<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"backlinks-counter\">\n<h2>Backlinks Counter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Backlinks are links that point to your website from other websites. 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