Technical SEO Checklist for Small Blogs

Where to start

Technical SEO sounds intimidating, but for a small blog it comes down to a short list of things you can check yourself. Crawlability, speed, structured data, and internal linking basics cover most of the ground.

Start by confirming search engines can actually reach every page. If you have already read our guide on how to find orphan pages, you know that a page with no inbound links is effectively invisible.

Next, look at your sitemap and robots file. These two files tell crawlers what exists and what to skip, and a single wrong line can hide an entire section of your site.

For more background, click here to read about link structure. Page speed matters too, particularly on mobile where most blog traffic now arrives.