Title is the heading of the webpage. The sentence or string enclosed between HTML title tag () is the title of your website. Search engines are searching for the title of your website and display the title along with your website address on search results. The title is the most important element for both SEO and social sharing. The title should be less than 50 to 60 characters because search engine typically displays this length of string or sentence on search results. A good title can consist of the primary keyword, secondary keyword and the brand name. For example a fictitious gaming information providing sites title may be like "the future of gaming information is here". A webpage title should contain a proper glimpse of the website. As said, the title is an important element as an identification of your website for your users experience, SEO and as well social sharing. So you should have a nice and catching title.
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The description is the full interpretation of your website content and features. Most often it is a short paragraph that describes what the features are and what information are provided by the website to its visitors. You may consider it as an advertising of your website. Although this is not too important for search engine ranking, but it is very important for hits or visits through search engine results. The description should be less than 150 characters because search engine shows this length of paragraph on search results. And every page of the website should contain a unique description to avoid description duplication. The description is the definition of your website for user experience, so form it as complete, but short and precise as possible.

Meta keywords are keywords inside Meta tags. Meta keywords are not likely to be used for search engine ranking. The words of title and description can be used as Meta keywords. It is a good idea for SEO purposes other than search engine ranking.

robots.txt is a text file that reside on the websites root directory and contains the instruction for various robots (mainly search engine robots). It contains the information how you would like the robots to crawl and index your website on their own webpages. robots.txt contains the search bots or others bots name, directory list allowed or disallowed, indexing and crawling instructions for bots, time delay to crawl and index and even the sitemap URL. A full access or a full restriction, customized access or restriction, all can be imposed through robots.txt.

robots.txt is very important part for the SEO process. Your website directories will be crawled and indexed on search engine according to robots.txt instructions. So you need to add a robots.txt file in your website root directory. Write it properly, including your content enriched pages and other public pages, but exclude any pages which contain sensitive information. Remember robots.txt instruction to restrict access to your sensitive information of your page as it is not formidable on web page security grounds.
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Sitemap is a xml file which contains a full list of your websites URLs. It is used to include directories of your websites as the base for crawling and indexing of search engines and also for user access. The sitemap can help search engine bots to index your website faster and with deeper results. It is roughly the opposite of the robots.txt You can create a sitemap.xml with various free and paid services or you can write it by yourself (read the Learn more below, to see the inside about how to write a sitemap).

Also keep these things in mind :
1) Sitemap must be less than 10 MB (10,485,760 bytes) and can contain maximum 50,000 URLs. If you have more URLs than you should create multiple sitemap files and use a sitemap index file as well.
2) Put your sitemap in the website root directory and add the URL of your sitemap into the robots.txt file.
3) Sitemap.xml can be compressed using grip for faster loading time.

Broken link : a broken link is an inaccessible link or a URL of a website. A higher rate of broken links has a negative impact on search engine ranking due to reduced link quality. It also has a bad impact on user experience if they run into a 404 page. There are several reasons for broken links, the most common are listed below.
1) An incorrect link entered by you.
2) The destination website removed the linked web page given by you. (A common 404 error).
3) The destination website is irreversibly moved or does not exists anymore. (Changing domain or site blocked or dysfunctional).
4) The content may have been hidden behind some firewalls or alike software, or security mechanism that is blocking the access to the destination website.
5) You have provided a link to a site that is blocked by firewall or alike software for outside access.
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An SEO friendly link is roughly to follow these rules. The URL should contain a dash as a separator, should not contain parameters and numbers and should be a static URL.

To resolve this use these techniques.
1) Replace underscore or other separator by dash, clean URLs by deleting or replacing number and parameters accordingly.
2) Merge your www and non www URLs.
3) Do not use dynamic and related URLs. Create an xml sitemap for proper indexing into search engines.
4) Block unfriendly and irrelevant links through robots.txt.
5) Endorse your canonical URLs in canonical tag.
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doc type is not an SEO factor, but it is checked as to validate your web page. So you should set a doctype in your html page.
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HTML page size is one of the main factors of a webpage loading time. It should be less than 100 KB according to Google recommendation. Note that, this size does not including external CSS, JS or image files. That means, small page size less loading time.

To reduce your page size, do the following steps:
1) Move all your CSS and JS code to external file.
2) Make sure your text content to be on top of the page, so that it can be displayed before full page loading.
3) Reduce or compress all the images, flash media files etc. It is better if these files are less than 100 KB.
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Canonical tags make all your URLs lead to a single address or webpage into a single url. Like :
<link rel="canonical" href="https://mywebsite.com/home" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.mywebsite.com/home" />
Both refer to the link mywebsite.com/home. So all the different URL, with the same content or page, will now be under the same link or URL as mywebsite.com/home. This will definitely boost up your search engine ranking by eliminating content duplication. Use canonical tag for all URLs.
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Plain text email address are vulnerable to email scrapping agents. An email scrapping agent will crawl your website and collect every email address which is written in plain text. So existence of plain text email address in your website can help spammers in email harvesting. This could also be a bad sign for search engines.

To fight this problem, you can obfuscate your email addresses in several ways:
1) CSS pseudo classes.
2) Writing your email address backwards.
3) Turn of display using CSS.
4) Obfuscate your email address using JavaScript.
5) Using WordPress and php (WordPress site only).
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