SEO
Technical SEO Checklist
A practical list of the technical foundations that determine whether search engines can crawl and index a site properly.
SEOTechnical
Technical SEO deals with everything that affects a search engine's ability to access, crawl, and understand a website — separate from the quality of the content itself.
Core checklist
- A valid XML sitemap submitted to Google Search Console
- A correctly configured robots.txt file
- HTTPS enabled sitewide via a valid SSL certificate
- Fast load times, particularly Core Web Vitals metrics
- Mobile-friendly, responsive design
- Clean, descriptive URLs
- Canonical tags to prevent duplicate content issues
- Structured data (schema markup) where relevant
- No broken links or unnecessary redirect chains
Why this comes first
Excellent content on a technically broken site often never gets fully indexed. Technical SEO is the foundation that lets every other optimization effort actually count.
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