Crawlability Checklist

Crawlability is the foundation of your technical SEO strategy. Search bots will crawl your pages to gather information about your site.

If these bots are somehow blocked from crawling, they can’t index or rank your pages. The first step to implementing technical SEO is to ensure that all of your important pages are accessible and easy to navigate.

Below we’ll cover some items to add to your checklist as well as some website elements to audit to ensure that your pages are prime for crawling.

Crawlability Checklist
  1. Create an XML sitemap.
  2. Maximize your crawl budget.
  3. Optimize your site architecture.
  4. Set a URL structure.
  5. Utilize robots.txt.
  6. Add breadcrumb menus.
  7. Use pagination.
  8. Check your SEO log files.
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