Authors.apple.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
46% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
70.50 kB
Words
662
Media files
0
Number of links
28 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Self-publish an ebook - Apple Books for Authors
The length of the page title is perfect. (428 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Apple Books for Authors guides you through every step of your journey as an author self-publishing an ebook, from structuring your story to packaging your digital book and selling.
The meta description is too long: 1103 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://authors.apple.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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 character encoding is not specified.
The character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are 8 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: How you tell your story is just as important as the story itself. Get ...
  • Duplicate 2: Get your book ready to stand out on Apple Books by designing a captiva...
  • Duplicate 3: According to the Audio Publishers Association, audiobooks experienced ...
  • Duplicate 4: See how your book is selling with daily sales reports and charts. Adju...
This page contains 662 words. That's ok.
36.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.18 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Share your story with the world.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Share your story with the world.
H2 Turn your book into an audiobook with digital narration.
H2 Turn your book into an audiobook with digital narration. Duplicate text
H2 Writers on writing.
H2 Writers on writing. Duplicate text
H2 Make your amazing read amazing to look at.
H2 Make your amazing read amazing to look at. Duplicate text
H2 Ready, set, publish.
H2 Why publish on Apple Books?
H2 Expand your audience with audio.
H2 Expand your audience with audio. Duplicate text
H2 Get the word out about your book.
H2 Monitor your book sales. Set your price.
H2 Monitor your book sales. Set your price. Duplicate text
H2 Get started with help from the most popular support articles.
H2 See where readers find and buy your books.
H3 Create an iTunes Connect account.
H3 Prepare your Word document.
H3 Publish your book from the web.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://authors.apple.com/Apple Books for Authors Apple Books for Authors Apple Books for Authors
https://authors.apple.com/Anchor Open Menu
https://authors.apple.com/writeSubdomain Write
https://authors.apple.com/prepareSubdomain Prepare
https://authors.apple.com/publishSubdomain Publish
/audiobooksSubdomain Audiobooks
https://authors.apple.com/promoteSubdomain Promote
https://authors.apple.com/measureSubdomain Measure
/support/Subdomain Support
/support/4519-digital-narratio...Subdomain Learn how to get your book heard
/support/4519-digital-narratio...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn how to get your book heard
https://authors.apple.com/writeSubdomain Watch the interviews
https://authors.apple.com/writeSubdomain Text duplicate Watch the interviews
https://authors.apple.com/prepareSubdomain Design and format your book
https://authors.apple.com/prepareSubdomain Text duplicate Design and format your book
https://authors.apple.com/publishSubdomain Get your file ready to publish
/audiobooksSubdomain Learn more about audiobooks
/audiobooksSubdomain Text duplicate Learn more about audiobooks
/market-your-book/497-how-to-u...Subdomain Promote your prose
https://authors.apple.com/measureSubdomain Measure your book’s performance
https://authors.apple.com/measureSubdomain Text duplicate Measure your book’s performance
/support/Subdomain Find more on the support page
/support/3967-create-itunes-co...Subdomain No Text
/support/3967-create-itunes-co...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read more
/support/3981-prepare-word-doc...Subdomain No Text
/support/3981-prepare-word-doc...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/support/4574-publish-book-fro...Subdomain No Text
/support/4574-publish-book-fro...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://books.apple.com/External Subdomain Explore Apple Books
https://www.apple.com/legal/pr...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.apple.com/legal/in...External Subdomain Terms of Service

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://authors.apple.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.72 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (71 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 869 referring domains.
This page has 2,629 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 745 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Self-publish an ebook - Apple Books for Authors
Apple Books for Authors guides you through every step of your journey as an author self-publishing an ebook, from structuring your story to packaging your digital book and selling.

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Apple Books71%Check
Authors Apple70%Check
Authors68%Check
Books66%Check
Publish66%Check
story62%Check
ebook58%Check
digital54%Check
Digital Publishing52%Check
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