Technical SEO for Developers | 2023 Checklist

What if you had the best website in the world, but no one could see it?

This is where technical SEO comes in. By implementing best practices on your website, you can ensure that Google indexes it properly and doesn’t penalize it.

Join Alex Trost, Lead Developer Experience Engineer at Prismic, in this comprehensive checklist that you can apply to all of your websites.

⚒️ Useful tools mentionned in this video:
https://pagespeed.web.dev
https://schema.org
https://letsencrypt.org
https://www.woorank.com/en/extension
https://www.semrush.com
https://ahrefs.com

As a developer, you should build websites using your favorite Jamstack framework.
Prismic allows you to build website sections, that you can connect to a website builder for your client or team. They will create pages from there and you get that content back to your code through our fast API.

► [Tutorial] Build a full website with Next.js 13, Prismic, Tailwind and Typescript:

► [Tutorial] Build a full website with Nuxt 3 and Prismic’s new Page Builder:

► [Starters] Try Slice Machine on Nuxt: https://prismic.club/nuxt-starters

► [Starters] Try Slice Machine on Next.js: https://prismic.club/nextjs-starters

► [Learn more about Slice Machine]: https://prismic.club/slice-machine

📍Chapters:

00:00 Intro – What is technical SEO?
01:38 Why is User Experience important for SEO?
02:09 Tip #1 – Core Web Vitals
03:21 Tip #2 – Optimize images
06:12 Tip #3 – Accessibility
07:41 Tip #4 – Mobile Responsiveness
08:36 Tip #5 – Reduce JavaScript
09:45 Tip #6 – Don’t Require JavaScript
10:24 Tip #7 – URL Structure
11:25 Tip #8 – Unique Titles & Descriptions
12:02 Tip #9 – XML Sitemap
12:39 Tip #10 – Structured Data
13:47 Tip #11 – Canonical Tags
14:13 Tip #12 – Open Graph Metatags
15:48 Tip #13 – SSL/HTTPS
16:44 Tip #14 – Manage Redirects
17:22 Tip #15 – Create a useful 404 page
17:59 Tip #16 – Robots.txt
18:39 Tip #17 – Site Audits
21:07 Recap for Technical SEO

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