Anchor Text Best Practices for Internal and External Links
Write descriptive anchor text, replace click here links, fix empty image links and check the rendered HTML so readers and crawlers know where each link goes.
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Write descriptive anchor text, replace click here links, fix empty image links and check the rendered HTML so readers and crawlers know where each link goes.
Review old pages with real data and decide whether to keep, update, merge, redirect, noindex or delete each one, with the redirect and sitemap steps.
Add a favicon Google can use in search results: the link tag, size and format rules, robots.txt access, and what to do when your icon does not appear.
Use this 25-point Google Images SEO checklist to cover img markup, alt text, file names, formats, sitemaps and Search Console reports.
Build a clear heading outline with one H1 and nested H2 to H6 headings, fix skipped levels and styled-text headings, and know what Google does and ignores.
Audit a page against Google's own questions on people-first content, covering originality, expertise, who wrote it, how and why, with fixes for weak spots.
Write useful alt text, pick descriptive file names, use real img elements and supported formats, and check that Google can find and understand your images.
Map your key pages, add crawlable contextual links with descriptive anchor text, and use the Search Console Links report to find weak spots.
Learn what every Google-supported meta robots directive does, which old ones are ignored, and how to set, combine and test them without hiding the wrong pages.
Learn when to use rel nofollow, sponsored and ugc on outbound links, how to combine them, and how to check your ads, comments and affiliate links.
Add og:title, og:image and twitter:card tags so shared links show the right title, description and picture, then test the result and fix the usual mistakes.
Work out the intent behind your target queries, check what already ranks, and shape the page type, title and first screen to answer it.
Design readable URLs with plain words, hyphens and one consistent case, avoid parameter and session-ID sprawl, and change old URLs safely with 301 redirects.
Audit your site for empty, near-empty, copied and near-duplicate pages, then decide whether to expand, merge, redirect, canonicalize or remove each one.
Find out why Google shows a different title than your title tag, which signals it reads, and how to write page titles that are less likely to be replaced.
Write a unique title and meta description for each page around one search intent, keep headings consistent and audit templates for duplicates.