Checklist

Technical SEO Checklist

Every crawl, index, speed and schema check in one working list.

8 min read·Updated Oct 2026

Written by

Khushboo Thakkar

· Reviewed by

Leighton Emmons

TL;DR

This checklist covers the technical foundations that let your pages get crawled, indexed, rendered and ranked: crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, structured data and hreflang.

Crawlability

Confirm robots rules, XML sitemaps and a clean internal link path to every important page.

Indexation

Check index coverage, canonical tags and duplicate handling.

Performance

Hit Core Web Vitals targets for LCP, INP and CLS.

Structured data

Add the right schema per template and validate it.

Key takeaways

Make every key page crawlable and internally linked.
Keep indexation and canonicals clean.
Pass Core Web Vitals.
Add and validate schema per template.

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