Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a set of strategies that is used to improve the ranking of your website on popular search engines such as google.com. Your website has baked-in on-site and on-page SEO optimization, which includes the following:
Speed
- Fast page speed as per Google PageSpeed Insights
Design
- Ability to create blog posts
- Website formatting adapts to device size (i.e. desktop, tablet, mobile)
- Use of images on homepage is limited for the fastest load time possible
- Internal linking
Hosting
- CDNs are used for 3rd party assets
- Website is hosted with AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Server-side text compression
HTML Content
- Site title and meta information are provided
- H1 and H2 tags are used to identify significance of sections on the page
- Primary JavaScript and CSS code is contained in external files
- Non-essential JavaScript is loaded after initial paint of the page
- robots.txt file that allows for crawling/indexing of your website
Images
- Image size optimization
- Lazy loading of images and background images
- Alt tags
URLs
- Contain keywords
- Short in length
- Static (i.e. do not include parameters)
- Non-case sensitive
- Use hyphens for word separation
- Are https (protected by SSL certificate) and automatically redirect to https urls when user enters an http url
- Dynamically generated site map