Search Engine Optimazation Questionnaire. By: Com To You  

In order for Com To You to optimize your Webpage to its very best page ranking we must first gather some information from you. It is very important for us to get a solid understanding of the over all status of your webpage before we start the optimization process.

This is why Com To You has created this 24 question questionnaire.

Please answer all the questions to the best of your ability remembering the more information you can give us about your webpage the better job we can do to get your webpage high rankings for your chosen keywords.

Please answer any or all of the questions as they pertain to your webpage SEO Project. There are two question categories. 1.Yes or No and 2. Your opinion or explanation.

Please understand that all of the information we get from you will be kept in the strictest of confidence. All of the information we compiled is to help us get to know what you we need to do to optimize your webpage.


These first 4 questions will help us to understand what your over all reasons is for optimizing your webpage, your Goal, your time frame, your budget and contact information.

Please keep in mind that an answer is required to each question. If you don't know or have an answer to any of these questions just answer with DK.


* 1. What is the overall motivation for optimizing this site? What do you hope to achieve? e.g. more sales, more subscribers, more traffic, more publicity etc.
 
* 2. What is the time-frame for this project?
 
* 3. What is the budget for this project?
 
* 4. Who will be responsible for this project? Will it be a joint or solo effort? Will it be run entirely in-house or outsourced?
 

The next 20 questions are required information we need to know in-order to assess the amount of work that is needed to bring your webpage to the highest ranking possible in the search engines.

Please keep in mind that an answer is required to each question. If you don't know or have an answer to any of these questions just answer with DK.


* 5. What technology was used to build the site? (i.e. Flash, PHP, frames, Cold Fusion, JavaScript, Flat HTML etc

 
* 6. What are the file extensions of the pages? (i.e. .htm, .php, .cfm etc)
 
* 7. Does the site contain database driven content? If so, will the URLs contain query strings? e.g. www.site.com/longpagename?source=123444fgge3212, (containing "?" symbols), or does the site use parameter workarounds to remove the query strings?
 
* 8. Are there at least 250 words of text on the home page and other pages to be optimized?
 
 
 
* 9. How does the navigation work? Does it use text links or graphical links or JavaScrípt drop-down menus?
 
* 10. Approximately how many pages does the site contain? How many of these will be optimized?
 
* 11. Does the site have a site map or will it require one? Does the site have an XML sitemap submitted to Google Sitemaps ?
 
* 12. What is the current link popularity of the site?
 
* 13. What is the approximate Google PageRank of the site? Would it benefit from link building?
 
* 14. Will we have the ability to edit the source code directly? Or will I need to hand-over the optimized code to programmers for integration?
 
* 15. Do we have permission to alter the visible content of the site?
 
 
 
* 16. What are the products/services that the site promotes? (e.g. widgets, mobile phones, hire cars etc.)
 
* 17. What are the site's geographical target markets? Are they global? Country specific? State specific? Town specific?
 
* 18. What are the site's demographic target markets? (e.g. young urban females, working mothers, single parents etc.)
 
* 19. What are 20 search keywords or phrases that you think your target markets will use to find the site in the search engines?
 
* 20. Who are your major competitors online? What are their URLs? What keywords are they targeting?
 
* 21. Who do we report to? How do we report to them?
 
* 22. Do we have access to site traffic logs or statistics to enable us to track visitor activity during the campaign? Specifically, what visitor activity will we be tracking?
 
* 23. How do you plan on tracking your conversion trends and increased rankings in the search engines?
 
* 24. What are your expectations for the optimization project? Are they realistic?