If you are starting up SEO for a new website, doing it yourself for your website or for a client, you must consider 8 Most Important SEO Factors for a New Website.

SEO differs from industry to industry and its is a complicated thing. It consists of the analysis of the site structure, its content, visual design, analysis of keywords, etc.

Improper search engine optimization – SEO can lead to the fact that search engines block the site and will not display it and mostly its seen as pages crawled but not indexed.

With SEO Experience over the years I, Salman Qadeer (SEO Consultant & SEO Expert) have prepared some tips to help you quickly understand the topic.

As i am running a Digital Marketing Company based in Lahore and provide SEO Services as well as Facebook Marketing Services and here I’ll explain the process I take in consideration before starting SEO especially for a new website.

Many believe that low page loading speed annoys users only. However, the consequences of slow loading are much more serious. Download speed has long been a factor in the ranking of sites.

Moreover, Google declares speed of loading on the mobile version of the site is among the major factor in the issuance of mobile search results.

Of course, your audience will also appreciate the reduced download time of the site.

If you want to improve the performance of the mobile site, Google has developed  a tool name light house which is 100% free that checks the speed of website, the time it takes to load first byte as FCP and time it takes to load largest visible object on first view of your website known as LCP.

It will check the download time of the page of the site on the 3G mobile Internet, evaluate the usability of the mobile version and much more.

Make Sure your website shall meet the following at least:

The robots.txt file is located in the root directory of the site and contains instructions for indexing it for search engine robots. Using robots.txt you can:

The file must have a name consisting entirely of lowercase characters (robots.txt) in order to be recognized. Search robots search robots.txt files in only one place: the main directory of the site. If search robots do not find these files in the main directory, they simply continue to scan further, assuming that there are no such files.

A Sitemap (sitemap) is added to the root directory of the site and gives search engines information about which pages of the site should be indexed, which of them first of all, how often they are updated.

If the sitemap is in XML format, you can structure it as you like – the breakdown into categories and sections in the structure of the site does not affect how Google scans your site.

This is not mentioned directly, but observations show that Google finds the home page first. The exceptions are the pages to which a large number of links from other pages of your site lead.

TIP: Always link your important pages with anchor text on your Home Page.

Internal links include links on your site: in the menu and links to your articles on the pages of the site and everything that directs the visitor to the internal pages. External links are links that lead the visitor outside the site. A link to your content or a website from an external site has a different weight than a link from your website.

Your Crawl Budget is the number of pages that the search engine scans per unit of time. You can get an idea of ​​what this indicator is for your site in the Search Console (Google search console) and try to increase it if necessary.

Since Google began to prefer the mobile versions of the site when indexing. Optimizing the site for mobile has become an important task for webmasters. To check whether a specific page of your site is recognized as mobile, you can use the Mobile Check Tool in the Google Webmaster. And with the help of another tool – “Site Diagnostics” – you can check the entire site for mobility.

Use the Google Chrome Dev Tools for Lighthouse Reports of Mobile to find specific pages on your site that have usability problems on mobile devices. You can also take a test on the convenience of the mobile version of the site.

This will allow you to keep the weight of the old domain while you are using the new domain name in marketing materials and other sources. The Google Help detailed instructions on how to use the canonical URL, our to improve the rating of the same content is hosted on different pages.

Google, Bing, Yandex and all other search engines, use algorithm and they work according to it. Schema Mark Up is a code which you can use to tell google what are the contents of your website, what is it about in much more efficient way. Secondly, You will have extra free allotted space on Search results if its relevant as that extra information is shown and results in better click through rate (CTR).