Most "WordPress SEO checklists" online are the same 20 generic tips copy-pasted a thousand times. This one is different — it's the exact checklist I run through on every WordPress and WooCommerce site I build, in the order I actually do it.
Quick Overview
- Title tags — under 60 characters, keyword near the front, unique per page
- Meta descriptions — 150-160 characters, written to earn a click, not just stuffed with keywords
- Heading structure — one H1, logical H2/H3 hierarchy
- Internal linking — the single most-skipped, highest-impact item on this list
- Schema markup — Article, FAQPage, and Breadcrumb JSON-LD for richer search results
- Core Web Vitals & mobile-friendliness — now direct ranking factors
- Technical basics — sitemap, robots.txt, canonical tags, HTTPS
The full checklist, with the reasoning behind each item and a quick-reference summary, is on my blog: WordPress SEO: On-Page Optimization Checklist
What's your most-skipped SEO item? Curious what others find themselves forgetting.
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