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Web designers, honest question: what's the first message you send a local business that's never heard of you?
Mine used to be "do you need a new website?" Almost nobody answered.
Now I build their new homepage first and send them the link. This wedding venue has 273 Google reviews, and its homepage was a grey banner with an empty page under it.
Good list. I'd add a 6th: the "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" box under Settings → Reading. It often stays ticked after a staging launch and adds noindex to every page. Small note on #4: multiple H1s aren't a problem on their own for Google; a clear heading structure matters more.