First, search engines must be able to discover and navigate your website. Second, search engines will index your webpages.
In order to entice search engines to present your webpages when relevant queries are entered, we must first optimize the following:
Organized internal links & organized file structure for successful discovery & navigation of your website by crawlers/robots.
Create robot.txt file for special crawling & indexing instructions to search engine crawlers/robots on how to crawl and index your site.
Elimination of duplicate content & duplicate URL’s
Submit an XML site map of your site to ensure search engines know where your webpages are and how they can be found.
Internal Links & File Structure
XML Site Map
Unique URL's & Redirects