{"id":29302,"date":"2022-02-17T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/?page_id=29302"},"modified":"2025-03-31T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:56:31","slug":"seo-flowcharts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/en\/seo-flowcharts\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Flowcharts for SEO Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a fan of creating and using charts in general and flowcharts in specific to easily refer and guide through decision making during the SEO Process (and avoid just saying “it depends) with clients, as they’re also easier to understand by non-SEOs, show the criteria behind decisions and allow to automate many of the scenarios.<\/p>\n

Here’s an aggregation of my top ones, that I hope to expand from time to time:<\/p>\n

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  1. SEO Area Importance vs Website Size<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. SEO Execution vs Company Size<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The Pyramid of SEO Needs: What’s needed for SEO Success?<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Should you prioritize an SEO Opportunity\/Issue Execution?<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Impactful SEO Recommendations Key Steps<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. How to Make your SEO recommendations Strategical<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. How to Make your Pages Competitive to Rank for Relevant Queries?<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. What to do when hit by a Google Core Update?<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Should you prune or optimize a page from your site?<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Should you migrate a Page to the New Web Version?<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Should I index a Sub-Category\/Faceted Page?<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Should I Index a Product Page URL?<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Should you language or country target?<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. What Web structure should you use to target a New Country Market?<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. What should you take into consideration when Optimizing Content for Different Country markets?\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Should You Implement Hreflang?<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Should you enable and index a product\/service page in an international Web version?<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. No SEO F*ck Ups, SEO Quality Frameworks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Let’s go through them! If you want to save them, just click on them to download them.<\/p>\n

    1. SEO Area Importance vs Website Size<\/h3>\n

    The importance of the different areas that play a role in SEO tend to change given the size of the site. Content and backlinks tend to play a bigger role in smaller sites. Technical SEO tends to have a higher importance in bigger sites.<\/p>\n

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    2. SEO Execution vs Company Size<\/h3>\n

    SEO execution challenges tend to shift depending on the company size: smaller companies tend to have higher flexibility but fewer resources. Bigger companies tend to have more resources but less flexibility. It’s then important to focus your SEO efforts accordingly.<\/p>\n

    \"SEO<\/p>\n

    3. The Pyramid of SEO Needs: What’s needed for Success<\/h3>\n

    The challenge faced by many SEO processes is that they’re stuck at the fix and improve stage due to continuous SEO-related bugs and lack of resources, and they need to move to the build stage to grow as expected.<\/p>\n

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    4. Should you Prioritize an SEO Opportunity\/Issue Execution?<\/h3>\n

    There will be always room to optimize things for search, so how do you prioritize what to focus on? Use this flowchart.<\/p>\n

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    5. Impactful SEO recommendations Key Steps<\/h3>\n

    Follow these steps to develop SEO recommendations that drive growth:<\/p>\n

    \"Impactful<\/a><\/p>\n

    6. How to make your SEO Recommendations Strategical<\/h3>\n

    Your SEO recommendations likely describe the tactics that you should execute to solve an issue or leverage an opportunity to execute a strategy that should allow to achieve an SEO goal. Here’s an easy way to visualize it to ensure your SEO recommendations are aligned to a meaningful strategy and goal:<\/p>\n

    \"How<\/a><\/p>\n

    7. How to Make your Pages Competitive to Rank for Relevant Queries<\/h3>\n

    It’s about building a page that’s better at fulfilling the user search need for its targeted queries, with content that is:<\/p>\n