{"id":594,"date":"2008-10-23T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:09:34","slug":"seo-website-analysis-custom-seo-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/seo-website-analysis-custom-seo-action-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"SEO Website Analysis | Custom SEO Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Herb Firestone<br \/>\nMarketing Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that you can request a free, no-obligation, no strings attached, SEO Website Analysis from any page on the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\">Directory One website?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similar to other SEO website evaluations, the Directory One SEO website analysis covers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>On-page SEO Factors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>Site Architecture<\/strong> &#8211; CSS versus tables<br \/>\n<strong>URL Structure<\/strong> &#8211; Do you have properly formated urls that include keywords separated by dashes?<br \/>\n<strong>Homepage Content<\/strong> &#8211; Is your homepage text 250 to 400 words long and is it based on keyword research and your primary key phrase?<br \/>\n<strong>Homepage Design &amp; Layout<\/strong>&#8211; Is your navigation text or graphics based? Does your site have really big graphics, large flash files, or frames?<br \/>\n<strong>Metatags<\/strong> &#8211; Page titles, descriptions, and keywords &#8211; Do you have them, and if so are the metatags you have any good?<br \/>\n<strong>Heading Tags<\/strong> &#8211; H1, H2, and H3 tags<br \/>\n<strong>Image Analysis and Alt Tags<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Conversion Forms<\/strong> &#8211; Do you have one or more, and if so, do they work?<br \/>\nBlog &#8211; Do you have a blog and if so, is it properly set up and optimized?<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Off-page SEO Factors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>Domain Age<\/strong> &#8211; Can&#8217;t do anything to change this one. As they say in the NFL, you are what your record says you are.<br \/>\n<strong>Domain Expiration<\/strong> &#8211; Is your domain name registered for at least five, if not ten years?<br \/>\n<strong>Backlinks<\/strong> &#8211; How many do you have and are you in the major authority directories, such as dmoz, the Yahoo Directory and Business.com?<br \/>\n<strong>Articles &amp; Press Releases<\/strong> &#8211; Do you have them and if so, have they been properly optimized and added to your site?<br \/>\n<strong>Videos<\/strong> &#8211; Do you have them on your site and if so, do you have your own channel and profile on YouTube?<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Directory One Competitive Advantage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where Directory One differentiates itself from the competition is in the time we take to explain each of the SEO factors, analyze the results, and provide specific recommendations in the form of a custom SEO action plan for each individual site.<\/p>\n<p>Any site of five or more pages that has it&#8217;s own unique URL may be submitted. 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