We use multiple tools to estimate web traffic, including Google™ Trends and Alexa™.

Nevertheless, your analytics will provide the most accurate traffic data.

A low rank means that your website gets a lot of visitors.

Your Alexa Rank is a good estimate of the worldwide traffic to your website, although it is not 100 percent accurate.

Reviewing the most visited websites by country can give you valuable insights.

Quantcast provides similar services.

‬We recommend that you book the domain names for the countries where your ‪‬website is popular. This will prevent potential competitors from registering these domains and taking advantage of your reputation in such countries.

The impact of social media is huge for certain industries, take advantage of this digital version of word-of-mouth marketing.

Make sure you have opened ‪‬‬social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and other sites that are of interest to your customers.

Learn how to engage your social media audiences and create a consistent fan base. You can also use your website to increase your popularity on social platforms.

Check these helpful tools for managing your social media campaign.

Note: This data represents social media influences from your website's URL, it does not represent data from specific brand pages.

Your Twitter usage statistics look great. You can enhance them even more by building connections with industry experts and exchanging expertise or content. Learn from today's top Twitter-using brands.

Plus, here are a few tips to help create a Twitter promotion plan.

The number of people using the Mobile Web is huge; over 75 percent of consumers have access to smartphones. ‪‬Your website should look nice on the most popular mobile devices.

Tip: Use an analytics tool to track mobile usage of your website.

Great! You have clean (user-friendly) URLs which do not contain query strings.
Clean URLs are not only SEO-friendly but are also important for usability.

Great, your website has a robots.txt file.

A robots.txt file allows you to restrict the access of search engine robots that crawl the web and it can prevent these robots from accessing specific directories and pages. It also specifies where the XML sitemap file is located.

Click here to check your robots.txt file for syntax errors.

Great, your website has an XML sitemap.

A sitemap lists URLs that are available for crawling and can include additional information like your site's latest updates, frequency of changes and importance of the URLs. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.

It is also good practice to specify your sitemap's location in your robots.txt file.

Good, no Flash content has been detected on this page.

Flash should only be used for specific enhancements. Although Flash content often looks nicer, it cannot be properly indexed by search engines. Avoid full Flash websites to maximize SEO.

This advice also applies to AJAX.

Great, there are no frames detected on this page.

Frames can cause problems on your web page because search engines will not crawl or index the content within them.

Avoid frames whenever possible and use a NoFrames tag if you must use them.

Your website does not have a blog.

In this tough and competitive internet marketing world content marketing rules. While publishing your content on other sites might be a good strategy, publishing it on your own site garners more benefits.

Starting a blog is a great way to boost your SEO and attract qualified visitors.

Use these great tips to boost the SEO performance of your blog.

Limit the number of links to 200 per page. Use Nofollow to optimize the juice that you want to pass to each link.

Your website's PageRank is decent but it can be improved.

PageRank™ (commonly called PR) is a link analysis algorithm used by Google™ to assess the popularity/authority of a website. The PageRank goes from 0 to 10. New websites start at PR0 and authority websites, like Twitter.com, have a PR10.

Websites with a high PageRank are crawled more frequently and their outgoing links have more passing juice.

This is the number of pages on your website that are indexed by Google™.

The more pages that search engines index, the better, as this offers more opportunity for your website to be found.

A low number (relative to the total number of pages/URLs on your website) probably indicates that your internal link architecture needs improvement and is preventing search engines from crawling all of the pages on your website. You might want to create/check your site's XML sitemap and submit it to Google™. You must also build backlinks to your site's inside pages to help Google™ bots crawl and index your web pages.

Check Google™ Webmaster Tools under Health and Index Status, to keep track of the status of your site's indexed pages.

This lists your website's popular pages.

Backlinks are links that point to your website from other websites. They are like letters of recommendation for your site.

Since this factor is crucial to SEO, you should have a strategy to improve the quantity and quality of backlinks.

Your website is not listed in DMOZ, a multilingual open content directory constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.

Submitting your website is important because search engines take DMOZ into account and sometimes display the company descriptions submitted to DMOZ in search results.

Keep your URLs short and avoid long domain names when possible.

A descriptive URL is better recognized by search engines. A user should be able to look at the address bar and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before reaching it (e.g., http://www.mysite.com/en/products).

Keep in mind that URLs are also an important part of a comprehensive SEO strategy. Use clean URLs to make your site more "crawlable" by Google™.

Resource: Search for a good domain name. If no good names are available, consider a second hand domain. To prevent brand theft, you might consider trademarking your domain name.

Great, your website has a favicon. Make sure this favicon is consistent with your brand.

Resource: Check out this amazing idea for improving the user experience with a special favicon.

Apparently your site does not have a 404 Error Page - this is bad in terms of usability.

Take the opportunity to provide visitors with a beautiful and helpful 404 Error Page to increase user retention.

This is a special CSS style sheet which ensures that unnecessary interface designs and images are left out when printing pages from your site, saving the user a lot of ink.

It is just another way to provide a rich user-experience.

If you do not have a print style sheet yet, set one up.

Add a conversion form for repeat visitors. It could be used to sign up for a subscription, get an email address of a visitor or close an online sale. ‪‬‬Converting visitors into prospects/clients is probably the most important goal for your website.

After adding a conversion form to your site, it is important that you optimize your website to boost conversions.

Your website is too slow. Slow page load time is one of the biggest complaints of web users.

If the load time/Kb is short, it means your homepage is too big.If the load time/Kb is long, this could be due to a server problem, a network problem, poor code optimization (cache, Mysql queries, etc.), or a third-party issue (advertising codes, analytics codes, etc.).

Site speed is becoming an important factor for ranking high in Google™ search results.

Resources:
Check out Google™'s developer tutorials for tips on how to to make your website run faster.

Monitor your server and receive SMS alerts when your website is down with a website monitoring tool.

Great, you have declared the language.

Make sure your declared language is the same as the language detected by Google™.

Tips for multilingual websites:

• Define the language of the content in each page's HTML code.
• Specify the language code in the URL as well (e.g., "mywebsite.com/fr/mycontent.html").

Good, this web page takes advantage of Microformats.

A microformat is a technical semantic markup that can be used to better structure the data submitted to search engines.

Thanks to microformats, Google™ regularly improves its presentation of search results.

Good, this page takes advantage of Dublin Core.

Dublin Core is a set of standard metadata elements used to describe the contents of a website. It can help with some internal search engines and it does not bloat your code.

It is important that your SEO efforts are not tarnished by spammy activities. Take care to avoid forum and blog spam and use best practices when sharing your content.

In addition, if you send email campaigns or transactional emails, use professional email software to keep your IP clean and improve the deliverability of your emails.

Great, your website is safe.

No evidence of phishing and/or malware has been detected.

Register the various extensions of your domain to protect your brand from cybersquatters.

Register the various typos of your domain to protect your brand from cybersquatters.

Malicious bots scrape the web in search of email addresses and plain text email addresses are more likely to be spammed.

Web analytics let you measure visitor activity on your website. You should have at least one analytics tool installed. It is also good to install one extra tool to have a confirmation of the results.

Analytics Tools: Google™ Analytics, Quantcast™, SiteCatalyst™, Piwik™, chartbeat™, Clicky™, ClickTale™, etc.

Get to know the technologies used for your website. Some codes might slow down your website. Ask your webmaster to take a look at this.

Use valid markup that contains no errors. Syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index.

To fix the detected errors, run the W3C validation service.

W3C is a consortium that sets web standards.

Declaring a doctype helps web browsers to render content correctly.

Great, language/character encoding is specified.

Specifying language/character encoding can prevent problems with the rendering of special characters.

Website speed has a huge effect on SEO. ‪‬‬Speed-up your website so search engines will reward you by sending more visitors.
Also, conversion rates are far higher for websites that load faster than their slower competitors.