📌 SEO Limits Checklist (Updated for 2026)

 📌 SEO Limits Checklist (Updated for 2026)

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1️⃣ Meta Title
→ 60–70 chars (Desktop) | 70–76 chars (Mobile)

2️⃣ Title & H1
→ 1 Title tag + 1 H1 per page

3️⃣ Meta Description
→ ≤160 chars (Desktop) | ≤120 chars (Mobile)

4️⃣ Image File Size
→ ≤200 KB (Web-optimized)

5️⃣ Sitemap
→ 50 MB | 50,000 URLs per sitemap

6️⃣ Disavow File
→ 2 MB | 100,000 URLs

7️⃣ Robots.txt
→ ≤500 KB

8️⃣ Alt Text
→ ≤120 characters (descriptive)

9️⃣ Anchor Text
→ 6–8 words | 55–60 characters

🔟 URL Length
→ ≤2,000 characters (shorter is better)

1️⃣1️⃣ Redirect Hops
→ Max 5 (ideal: 1–2)

1️⃣2️⃣ Page Load Time
→ Desktop: ≤3s | Mobile: ≤2s

1️⃣3️⃣ Core Web Vitals
→ LCP <2.5s | INP <200ms | CLS ≤0.1

1️⃣4️⃣ Page Size
→ ≤3 MB

1️⃣5️⃣ Click Depth
→ 3–4 clicks from homepage

1️⃣6️⃣ Keyword Density
→ 1–3% (natural usage)

1️⃣7️⃣ Content Length
→ 300+ words (quality > quantity)

1️⃣8️⃣ Internal Links
→ 100–150 per page (contextual)

1️⃣9️⃣ Crawl Limit per Page
→ ≤15 MB

2️⃣0️⃣ Crawl Budget
→ Few thousand pages/day (site-dependent)

2️⃣1️⃣ Google Search Console
→ 1,000 properties | 1,000 rows | 500 sitemaps

2️⃣2️⃣ Google Business Profile
→ Name ≤100 chars | Desc ≤750 | Photos ≤250

2️⃣3️⃣ Google Analytics
→ 10M hits/month/property

2️⃣4️⃣ Keyword Planner
→ 700 keywords/search

2️⃣5️⃣ Google Reviews
→ 4,096 characters/review