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Technical SEO Checklist for 2025: Rank Higher on Google
Published on April 20, 2026· 8 min read· Devmotec
Why Technical SEO Still Matters in 2025
Great content means nothing if Google can't properly crawl, index, and understand your site. Technical SEO is the foundation that makes everything else work.
The Complete Checklist
🔍 Crawlability & Indexing
- robots.txt allows crawling of key pages
- XML sitemap submitted to Google Search Console
- No orphan pages (all pages reachable via internal links)
- Canonical tags on all pages
⚡ Core Web Vitals
- LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) under 2.5s
- FID/INP under 200ms
- CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) under 0.1
- All images using next/image with correct width/height
📊 Structured Data
- LocalBusiness schema with address and phone
- Article/BlogPosting schema on blog posts
- BreadcrumbList on inner pages
- FAQPage schema for featured snippets
🌍 International SEO
- hreflang tags for each language/region
- Language-specific sitemaps
- Translated metadata (title, description)
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