Search engines and keyword selection
Choose a method and consult official sources · Free decision worksheet
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Scope a service and record its evidence
Three worksheets created for the journal’s methods. Each CSV contains a blank row and three clearly fictional examples: replace them with evidence from your own project. Define the scope, owner and acceptance checks before pricing an offer.
- Google Business Profile diagnostic: access, eligibility and checks
- Broken-link qualification: source, expected content and decision
- Sponsored-placement brief: format, disclosure, costs and acceptance
Leave unknown measurements blank. Price work using your actual costs; examining a link does not mean acquiring it, and a click is not a sale. You may adapt the worksheets under the MIT licence.
Official tools for checks
- Search Console — Impressions, clicks and indexing status for your own site.
- Rich Results Test — Check structured data supported by Google.
- PageSpeed Insights — Inspect page performance and diagnostic suggestions.
- Google Trends — Compare relative interest in a topic within a country; this is not absolute search volume.
- Bing Webmaster Tools — Review your site’s crawling and search performance on Bing.
- Schema Markup Validator — Validate schema.org vocabulary without promising a rich search result.
Open source projects to explore
- Lighthouse — Automated page auditing; interpret checks in the context of your website.
- Matomo — Self-hosted analytics: open source software with hosting and configuration to plan.
- WooCommerce — Commerce on WordPress: assess maintenance, extensions and hosting.
- Medusa — Commerce foundation for a technical project: development resources are required.
Open source software does not imply free hosting or no maintenance. Check the licence and technical scope before changing your store.
Prepare for Q4: guides and checks
A guided path for your store
To explore the worksheets in depth and organise your next steps, discover complementary ebooks from DIY Marketing Guide, the store in our business group. These are paid guides; their contents, language and price are shown before purchase.
