SEO CHECKLIST

Domain Name Does the keyword appear on the domain name of your web site?
Header The Meta tags on your web pages should include:
< META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="__________________________" >
< META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="________, _______, ___________" > 
< META NAME="RATING" CONTENT="General" >
< META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index, follow" >
< META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="index, follow" >
< META NAME="revisit-after" content="7 days" >
< META NAME="copyright" content="By OctopusJuice.com" >

Recommended Title word count=60 characters (usually about 7 to 10 words). Recommended Description word count=1550 characters(Yahoo will fill in whatever shortfall necessary to complete the 325 character requirement by selecting keyword text from your the body content of your page). Recommended Keyword word count=300 characters
Include Files Your web site should include Sitemap - Less than 100 links
Your web site should include Robots.txt
Your web site should include Custom Error Pages (404, 500)
Links You should have links coming from internal pages and external sites using relevant wording. Use Absolute (http://www.octopusjuice.com/Webfolder/Webpage.html) over Relative referencing (Webfolder/Webpage.html). There should be no broken links on your web site.
Page All web pages should be limited to a reasonable size. We recommend one topic per web page. A webpage should be over 5k and under 10k. The site should have minimum 15 pages with 10 of them rich with content. Use <H1>. <H2>, <H3>, <H4>, <H5>, <H6>...tags. Freshness of content provides significant gains in terms of SEO. Recommended keyword density: 5-20%. Recommended word count: 200-500 words in length
Keywords Our keyword appear on your title of your web page, Description and Keywords Meta Tag. Your keyword should bolded, italicized and should appear the Header on your web page.
Images The images on your web site should be named with keywords. The images on your web site should include descriptive alt tag using keywords.