{"id":368,"date":"2019-09-13T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agency09.co\/simplifyingtheweb\/?p=368"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:56:32","slug":"taking-a-website-live-heres-the-ultimate-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agency09.in\/simplifyingtheweb\/tech\/taking-a-website-live-heres-the-ultimate-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking A Website Live? Here\u2019s the Ultimate Checklist."},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 9<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

You\u2019ve finally\ndone it. Months of hard work, processes, multiple rounds of feedback &\ntesting have led up to this moment. Your website is finally ready to go live.\nYou\u2019re confident in the design and the user interface, you\u2019re excited for the\nworld to see it. However, it\u2019s not uncommon to get last minute jitters. Maybe\nyou\u2019ve missed out on something? Maybe an integral integration is still left or\nmaybe algorithms or trends have changed and your website isn\u2019t up to mark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst it\u2019s\nalright to be confident, being precautious and following checklists can ensure\nnothing goes wrong, at least when it comes to the basics. Here\u2019s a helpful\nguide to glance at everytime you take your website live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Integrate Google Tag Manager

    <\/strong>GTM is an all round tool essential for SEO tag management as well as analytical study of your website. Whilst Google Analytics is an important tool, it cannot function like it\u2019s meant to in itself. Google Tag Manager bridges this gap and helps collecting much more data than previously possible. Using these tags will enable you to study and monitor a variety of parameters thereby making it\u2019s integration the first priority when taking a website live.



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  2. Insert Keywords
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    Keywords or \u2018Search Queries\u2019 are the terms users enter when searching for any piece of content online. The presence of these keywords is what will bring potential users and consumers to your website via search engines. Before taking your website live, make sure your content is full of essential and alternative keywords that clearly bring out your offerings to the public eye.


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  3. Carry out Form Testing

    <\/strong>Forms are an essential part of websites. Be it collecting leads for a later follow up or a contact form for an e-commerce sale, collection of user data is one of every websites primary roles. Testing these forms before taking the website live is as crucial as it gets. Check if you\u2019re collecting the data correctly, if the fields are working properly and and subsequent communication is being relayed back to the user successfully. Additionally, check that you\u2019ve not forgotten to integrate the below points when you\u2019re carrying out form testing practices: