Optimize Criclive.in SEO and Performance

SEO Optimization & Full-Stack Website Development for Criclive.in

I am looking for an experienced SEO specialist and full-stack web developer to improve my cricket website, Criclive.in. The goal is to improve search engine rankings, website speed, user experience, technical performance, and overall website functionality.

Project Requirements

1. On-Page SEO

- Optimize page titles, meta descriptions, headings, URLs, and internal linking.
- Improve cricket news articles, match pages, team pages, and player profiles for relevant keywords.
- Implement structured data/schema markup where appropriate.
- Improve image SEO, alt text, and content organization.
- Optimize XML sitemap, canonical tags, and indexability.

2. Off-Page SEO

- Develop a quality backlink-building strategy.
- Identify relevant cricket, sports, and news websites for outreach.
- Improve website authority through legitimate link-building methods.
- Analyze competitor backlink profiles and identify growth opportunities.
- Avoid spam links, paid link schemes, and other risky SEO practices.

3. Technical SEO

- Conduct a comprehensive technical SEO audit.
- Improve Core Web Vitals, page loading speed, and mobile performance.
- Fix crawl errors, broken links, duplicate content, and indexing issues.
- Optimize robots.txt, XML sitemap, canonical tags, and redirects.
- Configure and improve Google Search Console and Google Analytics.
- Review structured data and resolve eligible validation errors.

4. Frontend Development

- Improve website design, responsiveness, navigation, and overall user experience.
- Optimize mobile and desktop layouts.
- Improve cricket match pages, live scorecards, news listings, and player/team pages.
- Enhance loading states, error messages, and user interactions.
- Optimize CSS, JavaScript, images, and other frontend assets.

5. Backend Development

- Improve backend performance, database queries, and API integrations.
- Optimize live cricket score updates and match data processing.
- Improve caching, database structure, and server response times.
- Review security, input validation, error handling, and API reliability.
- Optimize automated news publishing and data management workflows where applicable.

6. Performance Monitoring & Reporting

- Establish baseline performance measurements before making changes.
- Provide before-and-after SEO and speed reports.
- Document completed work, code changes, and technical improvements.
- Provide recommendations for ongoing growth and maintenance.

Expected Deliverables

- Complete SEO and website performance audit.
- Prioritized action plan for on-page, off-page, and technical SEO.
- Implementation of agreed SEO and development improvements.
- Improved mobile responsiveness, loading speed, and user experience.
- Clear documentation and a final progress report.

Ideal Freelancer

Please have proven experience in technical SEO, sports or news websites, frontend and backend development, database optimization, API integrations, and Google Search Console.

When applying, please share relevant portfolio projects, your proposed approach, estimated timeline, and a milestone-based quotation.

Main objective: Build a faster, technically sound, search-engine-friendly cricket website that provides an excellent user experience and supports sustainable organic traffic growth.