At theMediaFlow we pride ourselves on being insanely detailed technical SEOs. We use a foundation checklist which is adapted from client to client and sector to sector; though in general we always tend to include the items explained here.

1. Technical Audit Checklist

3. 6 Stages of a

4. STEP 1
Crawl

5. Check site can be crawled & is indexed
Screaming Frog
Use a crawling tool:
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Screaming Frog
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Deepcrawl
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Linkdex
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Rob Hammond
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BeamUsUp

6. Check use of Robots
Robots.txt
Robots Meta
X-Robots-Tag

7. STEP 2
Integrity

8. Eliminate Redirects and Broken Links
Identify response codes:
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301
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302
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403
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404
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500 Update links or remove

9. Complete additional checks on site integrity
Canonisation Does the site use the canonical tag? Check across www and non-www
Check Site Speed
Review all
outbound links
Check G.A Crawl Errors and Stats
Remove all junk from Source code

10. STEP 3
De-Dupe

11. Check for all forms of duplicate content
Check for dupe titles & headings Use Copyscape to identify any dupe domains/scraped content. Utilise Pagination on site for related pages.

12. STEP 4
Optimise

13. Optimise on page content
Map keywords to pages
Titles, Meta, Alt Text
Check URL Structure

14. STEP 5
Refine

15. Increase ‘shareability’ of pages

16. Mark-Up pages for rich snippets

17. STEP 6
Repeat

18. Download the Checklist
http://www.themediaflow.com/tools