The Ultimate SEO Checklist For New Websites | Get Traffic & Rankings FAST

The Ultimate SEO Checklist For New Websites | Get Traffic & Rankings FAST // You got a brand new website, you want higher rankings on Google. What should you do? There’s so much information out there, it’s so overwhelming.

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– Today, I’m gonna show you my complete SEO checklist.
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In fact, this is the same checklist I’ve used
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to get first page Google rankings for competitive keywords,
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like Keyword Research Tools, and SEO Campaign.
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I’m Brian Dean, the founder of Backlinko,
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and in this video, I’m gonna walk you through
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my entire SEO checklist,
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step-by-step, keep watching.
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When I first got started with SEO,
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I had no idea what I was doing.
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So, I started to search for things,
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like how to get higher Google rankings,
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and how to SEO my site, and despite following all the advice
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that I read, my traffic didn’t budge.
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It was really frustrating.
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(growls) I hate you, Google.
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Today, my site brings in hundreds of thousands
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You got a brand new website,
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you want higher rankings on Google.
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What should you do?
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There’s so much information out there,
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it’s so overwhelming.
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Hey everyone, I’m Neil Patel
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and today I’m going to break down the ultimate SEO checklist.
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(lighthearted music)
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Before we get started
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make sure subscribe to this channel,
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and if you’re on YouTube, click the alert icon as well.
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That way when I release live videos on Facebook,
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LinkedIn, YouTube, you guys all get notified.
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Question for you,
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wouldn’t you just love if the SEO checklist,
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especially for a brand new website was broken down
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into four simple steps?
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If you do, leave a comment below with yes.
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If you don’t want that, leave a comment below with no.
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The first item I have on the list,
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because it’s only going to be four tips
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is to map out your content strategy.
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From topics, to key words,
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what are you going after?
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What themes are you trying to create on your website?
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If you don’t know what keywords and content ideas
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to go after, you’re going to be spinning your wheels
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because the last thing you want to do
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is create content on stuff that isn’t working.
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And you can use tools like Buzzsumo, SEMrush,
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Ahrefs, even Ubersuggest to all figure this out
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because they all show you what topics are popular
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and what’s not on your competitors.
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And this is great because now you have a rule of thumb
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of oh, this stuff over here works
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and this stuff doesn’t.
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You don’t want to waste your time and your resources
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creating content that’s not popular and no one cares about.
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The second thing you need to do
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is create a hit list of your backlink opportunities.
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Take all your competitor URLs, and put them into backlinks.
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This will show you every single person who links to them.
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This is important because if you don’t have a link list,
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you’re not going to know who to hit up to link back to you.
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Now when you’re doing this,
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you don’t want to just take a list of all your competitors,
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and put them into a tool-like backlinks, or even Ahrefs,
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you want to go and find their most relevant content
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that’s related to yours,
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and see who links to their content.
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And then hit up those people to link to yours
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because you have a better piece of content
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that’s more relevant, more up to date, and more thorough.
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The third thing on your checklist needs to be accessibility.
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Is your site mobile compatible?
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Does it load fast?
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Are you deleting all the unnecessary work plus plugins
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that you don’t need?
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All these things impacts your overall search topic.
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The rankings is important.
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Without a fast site, you’re not going to get rankings.
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Speed is part of Google’s algorithm,
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you want to make sure your site loads as fast as possible.
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Not just on a desktop, but also on mobile.
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And you can use tools liKe Google PageSpeed
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to figure out how fast your site loads.
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The fourth thing on your list
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needs to be your content distribution strategy.
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From how are you going to push out the content on social media?
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Typically what I do is I take my content,
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I put it out on all my social profiles at the same time.
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In addition to that, I’ll also put it out on things
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like Instagram, and do live stories.
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And I also do that on Facebook, and do live stories.
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This is a good way to get people to engage in on Instagram,
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I’ll get people to swipe up so that way they can go
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directly to my blog post.
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Another thing I do with my content distribution
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is I email people out that I link to,
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and ask them to share my content.
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It’s a simple way to get more social shares
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and more traffic.
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And the last thing I do with my content distribution
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is I send out an email blast, and a push notification
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every time I release a new blog post.
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One of the most effective strategies,
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if you don’t have an email list,
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start using tools like Hello Bar and Mailchimp.
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If you don’t have push notification list,
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use tools like subscribers and (mutters).
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If you need help getting more traction,
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more traffic to your site, check out my ad agency,
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Neil Patel Digital.
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Thank you for watching.

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