Is your website ready to launch? Essential website checklist before going live

October 11, 2013

Every website needs to follow specific guidelines for optimal user experience and search engine indexing.

As long as you can place a nice checkmark beside each item in the list below, your website should be ready to launch!

• Content is unique and authoritative
• Simple contact form
• Mobile website/Responsive design
• Add guarantees or warranties
• Add and test call-to-actions
• Don’t buy/sell links
• Phone number and address unique on website
• Redirect www.
• Long term domain registration
• Robots.txt can crawl website
• Meta tags allow search engine to crawl website
• High quality meta description and title
• Create and submit Sitemap
• Add a blog
  • Create RSS
  • Add “Like”, “Tweet”, Share”
  • Social comments