Meta keywords are keywords inside Meta tags. Meta keywords are not likely to be used for search engine ranking. the words of title and description can be used as meta keywords. it is a good idea for SEO other than search engine ranking.

Keyword usage is the using of your keywords inside Meta tags and contents of your website. Use keywords that describes your site properly for precise search engine result of your website.

The ideal page's ratio of text to HTML code must be lie between 20 to 60%. Because if it is come less than 20% it means you need to write more text in your web page while in case of more than 60% your page might be considered as spam.

robots.txt is text file that reside on website root directory and contains the instruction for various robots (mainly search engine robots) for how to crawl and indexing your website for their webpage. robots.txt contains the search bots or others bots name, directory list allowed or disallowed to be indexing and crawling for bots, time delay for bots to crawl and indexing and even the sitemap url. A full access or a full restriction or customized access or restriction can be imposed through robots.txt.

robots.txt is very important for SEO. Your website directories will be crawled and indexed on search engine according to robots.txt instructions. So add a robots.txt file in your website root directory. Write it properly including your content enriched pages and other public pages and exclude any pages which contain sensitive information. Remember robots.txt instruction to restrict access to your sensitive information of your page is not formidable on web page security ground. So do not use it on security purpose.
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Sitemap is a xml file which contain full list of your website urls. It is used to include directories of your websites for crawling and indexing for search engine and access for users. it can help search engine robots for indexing your website more fast and deeply. It is roughly an opposite of robots.txt You can create a sitemap.xml by various free and paid service or you can write it with proper way (read about how write a sitemap).

Also keep these things in mind:
1) Sitemap must be less than 10 MB (10,485,760 bytes) and can contain maximum 50,000 urls. if you have more uls than this create multiple sitemap files and use a sitemap index file.
2) Put your sitemap in website root directory and add the url of your sitemap in robots.txt.
3) sitemap.xml can be compressed using grip for faster loading.

Broken link: a broken link is an inaccessible link or url of a website. a higher rate of broken links have a negative effect on search engine ranking due to reduced link equity. it also has a bad impact on user experience. There are several reasons for broken link. All are listed below.
1) An incorrect link entered by you.
2) The destination website removed the linked web page given by you. (A common 404 error).
3) The destination website is irreversibly moved or not exists anymore. (Changing domain or site blocked or dysfunctional).
4) User may behind some firewall or alike software or security mechanism that is blocking the access to the destination website.
5) You have provided a link to a site that is blocked by firewall or alike software for outside access.
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An SEO friendly link is roughly follows these rules. The url should contain dash as a separator, not to contain parameters and numbers and should be static urls.

To resolve this use these techniques.
1) Replace underscore or other separator by dash, clean url by deleting or replaceing number and parameters.
2) Marge your www and non www urls.
3) Do not use dynamic and related urls. Create an xml sitemap for proper indexing of search engine.
4) Block unfriendly and irrelevant links through robots.txt.
5) Endorse your canonical urls in canonical tag.
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GZIP is a generic compressor that can be applied to any stream of bytes: under the hood it remembers some of the previously seen content and attempts to find and replace duplicate data fragments in an efficient way - for the curious, great low-level explanation of GZIP. However, in practice, GZIP performs best on text-based content, often achieving compression rates of as high as 70-90% for larger files, whereas running GZIP on assets that are already compressed via alternative algorithms (e.g. most image formats) yields little to no improvement. It is also recommended that, GZIP compressed size should be <=33 KB

Inline css is the css code reside in html page under html tags not in external .css file. Inline css increases the loading time of your webpage which is an important search engine ranking factor. So try not to use inline css.

Micro data is the information underlying a html string or paragraph. Consider a string “Avatar”, it could refer a profile picture on forum, blog or social networking site or may it refer to a highly successful 3D movie. Microdot is used to specify the reference or underlying information about an html string. Microdata gives chances to search engine and other application for better understanding of your content and better display significantly on search result.
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If multiple domain name is registered under single ip address the search bots can label other sites as duplicates of one sites. This is ip canonicalization. Little bit like url canonicalizaion. To solve this use redirects.
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Canonical tags make your all urls those lead to a single address or webpage into a single url. Like :
<link rel="canonical" href="https://mywebsite.com/home" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.mywebsite.com/home" />
Both refer to the link mywebsite.com/home. So all the different url with same content or page now comes under the link or url mywebsite.com/home. Which will boost up your search engine ranking by eliminating content duplication. Use canonical tag for all the same urls.
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