Working around Dev Site

[atlanticocean]

I am working around development site. All pages are 'nofollow'. What can I advice on, when it come to SEO and is there any good article or checklist that I can go through.

One thing I wanted to know is how can I check for broken links or meta data or any other SEO analytics if the page is 'nofollow' and I cannot crawl it with screaming frog or any other tools.

[LynnPatchett]

HI,

For screaming frog there is an option in the config -> spider menu that says 'follow internal nofollow'. Checking that box should allow you to crawl the site.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi George,

Maybe in addition to that make sure you have to enter HTTP Authentication to make sure that none of the pages on the domain are being crawled. Besides that I would indeed go with the recommendation from Lynn.

[MattRoney]

As for an SEO checklist, I'd suggest the Web Developer's Cheat Sheet. It's a good idea to read the Beginner's Guide to SEO, too.