Baseball-reference.com - SEO Checker

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Link structure
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Server
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External factors
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MLB Stats, Scores, History, & Records | Baseball-Reference.com
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Complete source for baseball history including complete major league player, team, and league stats, awards, records, leaders, rookies and scores.
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H1 heading
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Baseball Stats and History The complete source for current and historical baseball players, teams, scores and leaders.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
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Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 42 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
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H1 Baseball Stats and History The complete source for current and historical baseball players, teams, scores and leaders.
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H2 Every Major League Team
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H2 Empty heading
H2 Stathead Baseball Powered By Baseball Reference
H2 MLB Scores (Wednesday, October 30)
H2 What's Happening
H2 MLB Leaders — 2024 & All-Time
H2 2024 MLB Season
H2 MLB Upcoming Schedule
H2 Full Site Menu
H2 We're Social...for Statheads
H2 FAQs, Tip & Tricks
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H3 Trending Player Pages
H3 Recent Debuts
H3 Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball
H3 In Memoriam
H3 Born On This Day
H3 2024 MLB Standings
H3 The sports search engine that was made for fans like you
H3 Stathead Resources
H3 Yesterday's Top Performers (Wednesday, October 30)
H3 Congratulations to this year's Hall of Fame Inductees
H3 Congratulations to this year's Hall of Fame Inductees Duplicate text
H3 2024 Hall of Fame Voting Results
H3 2025 Projected Ballot
H3 Sign up for the Baseball Reference newsletter!
H3 Dive Deeper with Stathead Baseball
H3 Team Head to Head Records Tool
H3 Follow the impact of the new MLB rule changes
H3 The Negro Leagues Are Major Leagues
H3 Site News
H3 144 days until Opening Day
H3 MLB Trade Rumors
H3 Sports Reference Blog
H3 Baseball Reference Blog and Articles
H3 Upcoming Dates
H3 Today in Baseball History
H3 Season-by-Season Top Tens
H3 All-Time Leaderboards
H3 2024 MLB
H3 Today's Games (Tuesday, November 5)
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The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (120) on this page.
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/players/23,370 Major League Players
/players/g/giambja01.shtmlIMG-ALT Jason Giambi
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/players/w/walkech02.shtmlChristian Walker
/players/j/judgeaa01.shtmlAaron Judge
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/players/m/mcdontr01.shtmlTrevor McDonald
/players/b/burromi01.shtmlMike Burrows
/players/c/churcma01.shtmlMarc Church
/players/h/harridu01.shtmlDustin Harris
/players/a/alcanke01.shtmlKevin Alcántara
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/boxes/?date=2024-10-30MLB Scores (Wednesday, October 30)
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/players/k/kershcl01.shtmlClayton Kershaw
/players/t/troutmi01.shtmlMike Trout
/players/b/bettsmo01.shtmlMookie Betts
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