SEO Checklist: How to Get More Organic Traffic (Complete Tutorial)

This video walks you through our complete SEO checklist that's helped us get over 300k monthly SEO visitors from Google. Learn how to rank higher in Google and get more traffic.

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The categories of search engine optimization spans from keyword research to on-page SEO, technical SEO, link building and more.

Tackling all these pieces at once isn't a good idea because they can lead to confusion and overwhelm. In this video, Sam shares an SEO checklist that will help you stay optimized, organized and sane.

Next we delve straight into keyword research by first finding a primary keyword target for your page and assessing search intent.

Sam then shows you a couple of handy ways to look for related queries to your topic and reveals a technique to find relevant keywords and subtopics for your post. We then look into assessing your chances of ranking in Google.

On-page SEO comes next. Based on some findings from Ahrefs' research, you'll learn the importance of using short, yet descriptive URLs, and the most important thing to optimize for when drafting a compelling title tag and meta description. Sam also shows a nice little bonus tip to find places to add relevant internal and external resources.

Next up on the SEO checklist is to create your content.

You'll learn the importance of writing an engaging introduction and get a few tips to learn how to ensure your content is readable for the vast majority of readers. We then look into how you can ensure your content solves the problems readers are searching for.

Subsequently you'll discover the most important white hat link building strategies and techniques:
- Find prospects who are linking to competing pages
- Expand your list of link prospects using Content Explorer
- Guest posting
- Skyscraper Technique
- Broken link building

Lastly, you'll learn the basics to ensure your technical SEO is up to par.

You'll learn how to run an SEO audit with Ahrefs' Site Audit tool and additional tools to measure and fix page speed issue.

You'll also learn how to check that your site is mobile-friendly as well as fix external and internal broken links.

Breaking SEO down to smaller bite-sized checkpoints can help you get things done effectively and efficiently. This video gives you the complete SEO checklist you need.

Timestamps:

0:37 Start with a basic setup
2:09 Do the keyword research
6:27 Optimize your pages for search
8:49 Create useful content
11:07 Build relevant links
13:49 Don't forget technical SEO

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[MichaelGordon]

AWESOMENESS. Thank you for taking the time to do this. Bookmarking this for later use!
Basic setup (screenshot 2:05)
-create sitemap
-check robots TXT file
-set up Google analytics & search console

Keyword Research (screenshot 6:29)
-find primary keyword per page
-assess search intent
-look at related queries on topic
-find relevant keywords & subtopics for post
-assess your chances of ranking in Google


On Page SEO (screenshot 8:34)
-short & descriptive URL’s
-compelling title & description
-add relevant external & internal resources

Content Creation (screenshot 11:05)
-engaging introduction
-focus on readability
-solve the searchers query

Link Building (screenshot 13:47)
-find prospects linking to competing pages
-expand your list
-guest posting
-skyscraper technique
-broken link building

Technical SEO (screenshot 15:51)
-run audit crawl
-measure & fix page speed
-mobile friendly
-fix broken links

[harryschperth]

After thousands of hours on YouTube and totorials I must say that I've never seen anyone explaining thinks better. You have a talent in teaching people and we are lucky that your subject is SEO.
Thanks a lot mate.
Very hood job!

[chillicrunch]

SAM HO, you are my mentor in SEO . I have not seen such professional and best informative videos any other can create except you . Thanks for your efforts.

[skylerreeves]

Great video Sam. The only thing I would add is perhaps a bit of info in the "on page seo" section about schema and how it can be used to enhance your results in the SERPs.

[j_yh]

Another EXCELLENT vid, Sam! Thank you. 🙏

I really appreciate that you acknowledge that your keyword difficulty metrics are “rough estimates”.

And... Nice nod to Eric Ward. Sometimes we spend so much time looking ahead that we forget what we can learn from those that came before us.

[NyBuyersAgent]

Ahref...I love it. We are local seo company in Melbourne Australia and we use Ahref for our all needs. It gives you all stuff under one roof. For example keyword research, on page seo, off page seo...everything....

great stuff guys...

[QCWNsXLAZqOyGbVdCit]

This video comes at the right time! More than just a checklist, it also serves as a very systematic workflow to implement. Can't thank you enough, Sam! You really are a true master of SEO! You make boring, complicated-looking SEO so fun to handle! Looking forward to your next videos!

[AdwaitYogaSchool]

You always add value to SEO professionals.

Thanx

[mostofakamal]

Hi Sam Oh,


You delivered the tecchnic with plesure step by step,
the processes of more organic traffic generating,
I spend more time, in study.
I also feel plesure.
Thanks a lots .


Mostofa.

[dmitrykotlyarenko]

Awesome. In my opinion, this is a great SEO checklist that marketers needs at all times!

[i-am-rashid]

Wow Sam, you made this so easy to understand. Loved the content and your teaching is top-notch!

[bryansandiego]

Almost didn't watch this thinking it was too beginner. Then I watched and watched again and took notes and added to our processes. Go Sam!

[jamesscott]

Excellent job Sam and ahrefs team 👍 super useful. Keep up the good work!

[ChrisAlta]

Learned a ton from this tutorial! Thanks for helping me take my SEO knowledge to new levels!

[beautybycarito]

well, now I have the check list to fix my website and get more views. thank you so much.

[michellemarieseno]

Great video! Super helpful and so easy to digest. It made SEO a little bit intimidating because of this tutorial. Thanks so much!

[subhashchand]

I have watched this video many times and really valuable information. Thanks for this video.

[replocal]

Awesome training and checklist. Every time I watch one of your videos, I realize all the ways I'm not using Ahrefs to full capacity. Thank you!

[lisekorsedahl]

Like always - a great video! Thank you for the awesome checklist!

[melaniesmith]

I'm a little confused about why "if you are selling a SEO checklist product" you wouldn't rank. The other results are high ranking so why wouldn't this product rank? Thanks for helping me to understand this.