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