Alpine-club.org.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
58% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
31% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.87 s
File size
65.10 kB
Words
1668
Media files
12
Number of links
86 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Alpine Club
The page title is too short. (103 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: The AC and the MEF can provide funding for certain expeditions, the AC...
This page contains 1668 words. That's ok.
39.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
19 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 33 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
2025 AC Photo Competition
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 2025 AC Photo Competition
H1 2025 Rick Allen Skills Award: APPLICATIONS OPEN
H2 Latest Articles
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Empty heading
H2 Expeditions
H2 Expeditions Duplicate text
H3 Latest Articles Duplicate text
H3 Upcoming Events Duplicate text
H3 Reports
H3 Funding
H3 Himalayan Index
H3 Expedition Information Centre (EIC)
H4 Leading Through - The Next 6 Years +
H4 Bill Ruthven +
H4 2025 AC Photo Competition +
H4 Richard Gowing +
H4 Questions
H4 Funding Duplicate text
H4 Reports Duplicate text
H4 Questions Duplicate text
H4 Funding Duplicate text
H4 Reports Duplicate text
H5 Advertising Policy
H5 Child Protection Guidelines
H5 Privacy Policy
H5 Cookies Policy
Baselink: http://alpine-club.org.uk/
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 4 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 5 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://alpine-club.org.uk/Home
/membershipMembership
/about-the-acAbout
/about-the-ac/aboutAbout the AC
/about-the-ac/benefitsMember Benefits
/about-the-ac/support-for-aspi...Support for Aspirant Members
/about-the-ac/ac-shopAC Shop
/about-the-ac/ac-committeeCommittee & Staff
/about-the-ac/ethical-viewsEthical Views
/about-the-ac/facilitiesClubhouse Facilities
/about-the-ac/george-starkey-hutGeorge Starkey Hut
/about-the-ac/find-usFind Us
/about-the-ac/mission-2Rules and Regulations
http://alpine-club.org.uk/newsNews
/news/club-newsClub News
/news/sustainability-newsSustainability News
/news/other-newsOther News
/news/expedition-newsExpedition News
/news/everest-centenaryEverest Centenary
/news/feature-articlesFeatures
/news/up-close-and-personalUp Close and Personal
/news/chamonix-conditionsChamonix Conditions
/news/obituariesDeath Announcements
/events/month.calendar/2025/03...Events
/events/lectures/cat.listevent...Lectures
/events/past-future-exhibitionsExhibitions
/events/blencathra-2024Blencathra 2024
/climbing/range.listevents/-Meets
/climbing/future-meets/range.l...Future Meets
/climbing/meets-newsMeets News
/climbing/past-meets/range.lis...Meet Reports
/climbing/rick-allen-skills-awardRick Allen Skills Award
/climbing/greater-ranges-meetsGreater Ranges Meets
/eic-introductionExpeditions
/expeditions/ee4we-additional-...EE4WE - Additional Resources
/eic-introductionPlanning
/expeditions/expedition-fundingFunding
/expeditions/exped-reportsReports
/expeditions/open-expeditionsOpen Expeditions
http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/hi/New window Subdomain Himalayan Index
/expeditions/gps-and-global-me...GPS Rental
/green-groupGreen Group
http://alpine-club.org.uk/acgThe ACG
/library/libraryLibrary
/library/libraryText duplicate Library
/library/publicationsPublications
http://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/New window External Subdomain Alpine Journal
http://18.133.79.193:8082/New window External Subdomain Library Catalogue
/library/the-kapadia-interviewsThe Kapadia Interviews
/library/mumm-registerMumm's Register
/library/photo-libraryPhoto Library
/library/archiveArchive
/library/art-ukBuying Alpine Club Prints and Photos
/library/2015-02-27-09-17-05Funalps
http://alpine-club.org.uk/membersMember Login
/members/loginoutLogin / Logout
/members/books-by-membersBooks by Members
/contact-usContact Us
/site-searchSearch
http://alpine-club.org.uk/membersNo Text
http://alpine-club.org.uk/No Text
https://www.facebook.com/theal...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/thealpineclubExternal No Text
https://www.instagram.com/alpi...External Subdomain No Text
/index.php/joinBecoming a Member
/images/news/Photo_Competition...P
/climbing/rick-allen-skills-awardRick Allen Skills Award Page
/news/feature-articles/1355-le...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/obituaries/1353-bill-rut...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/club-news/1350-2025-ac-p...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/obituaries/1349-richard-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/events/icalrepeat.detail/2025...Bob Barton - Kalanka by the Rishi Gorge
/events/icalrepeat.detail/2025...Special 50th Anniversary Weekend Meet
/events/icalrepeat.detail/2025...DAV/AC North Wales Meet
/events/icalrepeat.detail/2025...Nicholas Havely - Some Peaks and Troughs in the Tuscan Apennines
/events/icalrepeat.detail/2025...Alpine Club Stanage Weekend Meet 2025
/index.php/about-the-ac/contac...an email
/index.php/climbing-fundText duplicate Funding
/index.php/expedition-reportsReports The AC library contains a collection of reports from the MEF and other sources Learn More
/index.php/climbing-fundFunding The AC Climbing Fund was created to help AC members' climbing activities. It awards grants to AC members undertaking expeditions. Learn More
http://alpine-club.org.uk/hi/Himalayan Index This unique database contains records of peaks over 6000m, whether attempted or climbed.. It also contains literature references for specific...
/eic-introduction/Expedition Information Centre (EIC) Are you thinking of planning an expedition? Learn More
/index.php/about-the-ac/contac...Questions
/index.php/about-the-ac/contac...email
/index.php/climbing-fundText duplicate Funding
/index.php/expedition-reportsText duplicate Reports
/hi/index.htmSubdomain Text duplicate Himalayan Index
/2-uncategorised/639-alpine-cl...Advertising Policy
/2-uncategorised/632-child-pro...Child Protection Guidelines
/2-uncategorised/463-privacy-p...Privacy Policy
/17-articles/464-cookies-polic...Cookies Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.87 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
This page loads 12 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (65 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
pragmano-cache
set-cookie110 Characters
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
last-modifiedWed, 19 Mar 2025 16:34:23 GMT
transfer-encodingchunked
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http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,682 referring domains.
This page has 39,492 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 456 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt 2013.04.25
#            disallow ip-web-crawler.com. It crawls way too fast and while
#            it claims to obey robtos.txt directives, it does not.
#            If it doesn't obey the disallow, then an iptables drop
#            50.31.96.6 - 50.31.96.12 could be used 
#
# robots.txt 2013.04.17
#            add some dissallow stuff for specific file extensions. 
#            Somehow I missed it before.
#
# robots.txt 2013.04.04
#            disallow Sosospider. Any web crawler that is too stupid to know the 
#            difference between upper and lower case is not worthy.
#
# robots.txt 2013.02.28
#            disallow Exabot. I wonder if the resulting search engine
#            database is the reason I get so many forged referrer
#            hits.
#
# robots.txt 2012.10.08
#            disallow WBSearchBot.
#
# robots.txt 2012.09.02
#            disallow SearchmetricsBot. It is mentally challenged.
#
# robots.txt 2012.05.03
#            disallow TurnitinBot. It is mentally challenged.
#
# robots.txt 2012.03.29
#            disallow EC2LinkFinder. I do not know if it obeys robots.txt, but I wll try.
#            For sure it ignores most robots.txt directives. It copies everything, hogging
#            bandwidth.
#            It is time to think of a generic deny, to cover all these new bots.
#
# robots.txt 2012.03.13
#            disallow SWEBot. It is not polite and disobaeys robots.txt file.
#
# robots.txt 2012.01.29
#            disallow aiHitBot
#            Try a useragent "InfoPath" and "InfoPath.2" dissallow. (Another MS thing.)
#            I am trying to get rid of what appears to be a tracking site.
#            80.40.134.103, .104, .120, seem to track 92.9.131.199 and 92.9.150.29 and ...
#            80.40.134.XXX does read the robots.txt file.
#
# robots.txt 2012.01.04
#            SISTRIX crawler does not behave well. It ignores meta tags and some robots.txt directives.
#            Disallow it.
#
# robots.txt 2011.12.01
#            Try to get rid of Ezooms bot, although it is not clear what its exact user agent name is.
#            (Days later: "User-agent: Ezooms" seems to work, but it takes a few days.)
#            It ignores meta tags, and has become generally annoying.
#
# robots.txt 2011.09.26
#            Until now I have allowed Baiduspider. But it has gone mental and also ignores some meta tags.
#            Disallow it.
#            A new robot, AhrefsBot, does not behave or obey meta tags.
#            Disallow it.
#
# robots.txt 2011.06.19
#
# robots.txt 2011.04.12
#            Googlebot is so very very severely mentally challenged.
#            It ignores the NOFOLLOW meta tag.
#            Try to block useless content from being indexed via, yet another,
#            block command.
#
#            It is still looking for pages that haven't been there for over a year now.
#            (see 2010.04.29)
#
# robots.txt 2010.10.14
#            Eliminate crawl delay for Yahoo slurp (see 2007.03.13)
#
# robots.txt 2010.09.20
#            TwengaBot is severely mentally challenged. Try global disallow for it.
#            Googlebot is still annoying and accessing pages it shouldn't.
#
# robots.txt 2010.04.29
#            Googlebot is very severely mentally challenged.
#            Add disallow directives for directories that are not even there,
#            and haven't been for over 5 weeks now.
#            This is merely to try to get around having my request to delete the
#            non-existant directories from the search database being denied.
#
# robots.txt 2010.04.16
#            Add specific directives for exabot, including a crawl delay.
#            Reduce the slurp (Yahoo) crawl delay (which it doesn't seem to obey anyhow).
#            Disallow googlebot-image.
#
# robots.txt 2010.04.13
#            disallow taptubot, the mobile device crawler
#
# robots.txt 2010.04.01
#            Yet another attempt to get web crawlers not to index old versions of index.html files.
#            All old version are called index_0???.html.
#
# robots.txt 2010.03.19
#            Archives have been moved to a seperate directory. Add disallow directive.
#
# robots.txt 2010.02.10
#            The Yandex web crawler behaves in a very strange manor. Block it.
#            Ask Robots not to copy PDF files. 
#
# robots.txt 2009.12.07
#            Fix some syntax based on feedback from http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml
#
# robots.txt 2009.12.04
#            There are still issues with googlebot. I don't want old versions of index.html
#            type pages indexed, but I do want the photoshop elements generated pages indexed.
#            Try some new directives.
#
# robots.txt 2009.09.09
#            Googlebot is not ignoring the rebuilt directory and is obtaining .MOV videos.
#            Add some more googlebot specific directives.
#
# robots.txt 2009.07.27
#            Googlebot directives are case sensitive. Add .JPG to .jpg ignore directives.
#            Googlebot is not ignoring old index pages as global directive indicates to. Try a googlebot
#            specific directive.
#
# robots.txt 2009.04.12
#            Some robots, for example googlebot, obey global directives as well as googlebot specific directives.
#            Other robots, for example slurp (Yahoo) and msnbot, only obey their specific directives.
#            The robots.txt standard is rather weak, incomplete, and generally annoying.
#            Add tons of the same specific directives to each robot area.
#            Try to change no index Christmas pages to include a wildcard.
#
# robots.txt 2008.12.03ser-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /cli/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /layouts/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /tmp/
#            Block the Cuil (twiceler) robot entirely.
#
# robots.txt 2008.11.23
#            The majestic robot comes in bursts at a high rate. Just block it.
#            The Cuil robot comes to much. Try to slow it down.
#
# robots.txt 2008.07.03
#            Now msnbot has started to grab images. Try to stop it.
#            Googlebot is grabbing PNG files. Try to stop it.
#
# robots.txt 2007.11.20
#            Try to disallow the panscient.com web crawler.
#ser-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /cli/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /layouts/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /tmp/
# robots.txt 2007.08.23
#            Still search engine pages do not agree with contents of robots.txt file.
#            Add specific disallow for ~doug/rebuilt.
#            - put global user agent lines after specific ones.
#            - next will be to repeat global lines in each specific agent area.
#
# robots.txt 2007.05.03
#            Now Googlebot has started to grab images. Try to stop it.
#            For whatever reason, google is mainly showing my re-built directory. It 
#            never seems to go back to the higher level page that now has meta tags
#            telling it not to index those pages. Put in a global disallow.
#            Add some other global disallows, that I got behind on.
#
# robots.txt 2007.03.13
#            stupid yahoo slurp comes all the time now. It supports a non-standard delay command.
#            so add the command. The web site doesn't state the units of measure.
#
# robots.txt 2007.02.11
#            yahoo, slurp seems to now obey the non-standard ignore this type of file wildcard usage
#            try it.
#
# robots.txt 2006.12.29
#            Delete instructions for directories that don't exist anymore
#
# robots.txt 2004:12:21
#            Try to eliminate yahoo.com grabbing images.
#            Can only think of global deny.
#            Can not find Yahoo name, try one shown below.
#
# robots.txt 2004:11:16
#            Try to eliminate alexa.com grabbing images.
#            InkTomi comes too often, can them entirely.
#
# robots.txt 2004:07:16
#            Try to eliminate picsearch.com grabbing images.
#
# robots.txt 2004:07:09
#            Try to eliminate altavista grabbing images.
#
# robots.txt for www.smythies.com 2003:12:21
#

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User-agent: vscooter
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User-agent: psbot
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User-agent: ia_archiver
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User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: twiceler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
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User-agent: taptubot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
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User-agent: TwengaBot
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User-agent: sitebot
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User-agent: Baiduspider
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User-agent: AhrefsBot
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User-agent: Ezooms
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User-agent: sistrix
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User-agent: aiHitBot
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User-agent: InfoPath
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User-agent: InfoPath.2
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User-agent: swebot
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User-agent: EC2LinkFinder
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User-agent: TurnitinBot
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User-agent: SearchmetericsBot
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User-agent: WBSearchBot
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User-agent: Exabot
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User-agent: Sosospider
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User-agent: ip-web-crawler.com
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User-agent: Slurp
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Disallow: /*.JPG
Disallow: /*.png
Disallow: /*.PDF
Disallow: /*.pdf
Disallow: /disclaimer.html
Disallow: /security.html
Disallow: /poweredby.html
Disallow: /about_smythies.html
Disallow: /unused_link.html
Disallow: /old_pages.html
Disallow: /index_0*
Disallow: /*index_0*$ser-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /cli/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /layouts/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /digital_camera/
Disallow: /lab/
Disallow: /xmas_*
Disallow: /~doug/archives/

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*.jpg$
Disallow: /*.JPG$
Disallow: /*.png$
Disallow: /*.PDF$
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /index_0*$
Disallow: /*index_0*$
Disallow: /xmas_*
Disallow: /~doug/archives/
Disallow: /~doug/2010.01.23/
Disallow: /~doug/2007.11.20/
Disallow: /~doug/2004.06.26/
Disallow: /digital_camera/
Disallow: /old_pages.html
Disallow: /unused_link.html
Disallow: /disclaimer.html
Disallow: /security.html
Disallow: /about_smythies.html
Disallow: /poweredby.html
Disallow: /*.MOV
Disallow: /*.mov
Disallow: /*.AVI
Disallow: /*.avi
Disallow: /DSCN*.htm
Disallow: /lectures/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /join/
Disallow: /alpineclub/
Disallow: /publications/
Disallow: /notices/

User-agent: msnbot
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Disallow: /*.JPG
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Disallow: /disclaimer.html
Disallow: /security.html
Disallow: /poweredby.html
Disallow: /about_smythies.html
Disallow: /unused_link.html
Disallow: /old_pages.html
Disallow: /index_0*
Disallow: /*index_0*$
Disallow: /digital_camera/
Disallow: /lab/
Disallow: /xmas_*
Disallow: /~doug/archives/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.jpg
Disallow: /*.JPG
Disallow: /*.png
Disallow: /*.PDF
Disallow: /*.pdf
Disallow: /disclaimer.html
Disallow: /security.html
Disallow: /poweredby.html
Disallow: /about_smythies.html
Disallow: /unused_link.html
Disallow: /old_pages.html
Disallow: /index_0*
Disallow: /*index_0*$
Disallow: /digital_camera/
Disallow: /lab/
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Disallow: /~doug/archives/

User-agent: *
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Disallow: /_baks/
Disallow: /MMWIP/
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User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: *.csi

User-agent: *
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ser-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /cli/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /layouts/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /tmp/

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KeywordResultRecheck
Alpine64%Check
Alpine Club62%Check
Club59%Check
2025 AC Photo Competition58%Check
Competition56%Check
Photo56%Check
Photo Competition56%Check
AC climbing51%Check
AC Library49%Check
AC Calendar49%Check

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