Merkgold.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
40% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.76 s
File size
242.50 kB
Words
7162
Media files
17
Number of links
89 internal / 24 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
VanEck Merk Gold ETF (OUNZ) - The Gold ETF That Delivers
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (556 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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descriptionEmpty
csrf-token8FPw0IIBXtOss7wvdOAwZvV8HrPkj8sZ7IXm59wA
msapplication-TileColor#233c72
theme-color#233c72
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The content of this page is too large (7162 words). Maybe the content could be divided into several pages.
These Typos were found:
  • posession => possession
There are 6 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: No Delivery Fee is charged for the delivery of physical gold to destin...
  • Duplicate 2: The Exchange Fee covers the cost of exchanging OUNZ shares into gold b...
  • Duplicate 3: Our Team is here for you. Give us a call or send us an email. We will ...
40.5% 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.
117 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 262 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"to meet its primary objective to provide investors with an opportunity to invest in gold through the s..."
The following tag is repeated too often: type of gold bar
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...JE96KL1Vnnb6Of1sSaDSwZ33hkoqr0rG5zBq.pngVanEck Merk Gold Trust Logo
https://merkgold.com/tmp/phpa4xzhlVanEck Merk Gold Trust Logo
/build/images/hero-image.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/static/images/hero-background.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ge/7/2016-02-01-gold-audit-thumbnail.jpgVault audit October 16, 2024
...WP8ymx5e1ffdVTn7Te6kPSzeO4cg90UugTBj.pngVault visit July 03, 2024
/static/images/calculator-gold-bg.pngNo alt attribute provided
/static/images/calculator-blue-bg.pngNo alt attribute provided
/static/images/calculator-blue-bg.pngNo alt attribute provided
...c/images/calculator-gold-bg-expanded.pngNo alt attribute provided
/static/images/calculator-blue-bg.pngNo alt attribute provided
...images/taking-delivery-image-desktop.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../images/taking-delivery-image-mobile.pngNo alt attribute provided
...0QqkHVvMyd3mgDOSTPRreSOByxZmPVVunOYP.pngVanEck Merk Gold Trust Logo
https://merkgold.com/build/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/build/images/contact-form-owl.pngNo alt attribute provided
Video URLWidthHeight
...1c67RdcOrdqW74OMMYQBmVJmCtdOpAhdkNer.mp4

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
OUNZ VanEck® Merk® Gold ETF
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 41 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 OUNZ VanEck® Merk® Gold ETF
H2 Fund Description
H2 Overview
H2 Deliverability
H2 Convertibility
H2 Tax Efficiency
H2 Fund Information
H2 OUNZ Delivers
H2 Retirement Account Eligible
H2 Tax Efficiency Duplicate text
H2 Gold in OUNZ shares
H2 Delivery
H2 Delivery Application
H2 Exchange Fee
H2 Share Submission
H2 Customer Service
H2 Allocated Gold
H2 Internal Controls
H2 Reporting
H2 Guiding Principles
H2 VanEck Merk Gold ETF Guiding Principles
H2 The shares offer an investment that is:
H2 Patent
H2 Delivery Fees
H2 Exchange Fee Duplicate text
H2 Taking Delivery
H2 How Many OUNZ Shares Do You Own
H2 Exchange Fee Duplicate text
H2 Gold Delivery: As Easy As 1-2-3
H2 Responsible Sourcing
H2 FAQ
H2 Documents
H3 Delivery Fee
H3 Exchange Fee Duplicate text
H3 Sample Exchange Fees
H3 1. Investor files a Delivery Application
H3 2. Investor instructs their broker to submit their ETF shares to take delivery of their gold
H3 3. Gold sent to Investor
H3 Company
H3 Contact us
H3 Let's stay in touch. Contact Us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
14 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 7 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 24 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://calendly.com/d/drt-g8h...New window Nofollow External Schedule a Call
https://merkgold.com/IMG-ALT VanEck Merk Gold Trust Logo
https://merkgold.com/New window Nofollow Gold
https://www.asaltd.com/New window Nofollow External Subdomain Gold Equities
https://www.merkinvestments.co...External Subdomain Insights & Research
https://www.merkinvestments.co...External Subdomain About Merk
https://www.merkinvestments.co...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Solutions
https://www.merkinvestments.co...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Research
https://www.merkinvestments.co...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate About Merk
https://www.merkinvestments.co...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Strategies
/overview.htmlNew window Nofollow Subdomain Text duplicate Gold
https://www.asaltd.com/New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Gold Equities
https://www.merkfunds.com/stgfNew window Nofollow External Subdomain Stagflation
https://www.merkfunds.com/fund...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Hard Currencies
https://www.merkinvestments.co...New window Nofollow External Subdomain FX Program
https://www.merkinvestments.co...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Custom Strategy
https://calendly.com/jfgx3ww4q...New window Nofollow External Text duplicate Schedule a Call
/storage/60/7XsyhQmzgckGWEFFtv...Subdomain Factsheet
/storage/6/ounz-prospectus.pdfSubdomain Prospectus
/storage/50/mKrG1c67RdcOrdqW74...Subdomain Watch Video
/storage/50/mKrG1c67RdcOrdqW74...Subdomain No Text
/storage/67/HpBIznZxvFUgnVXzRF...New window Subdomain Vault audit October 16, 2024 Click on image to view
IMG-ALT Vault audit October 16, 2024
/storage/21/izzv7x6v3CcU9xcFRs...New window Subdomain Vault visit July 03, 2024 Click on image to view
IMG-ALT Vault visit July 03, 2024
/storage/files/OUNZ-BidAsk-His...Subdomain Bid-Ask History
/storage/files/OUNZ-NAV-Histor...Subdomain NAV History
/storage/72/UwRZ97IqlJURyQIuzS...Subdomain Bar List
https://merkgold.com/Anchor (1)
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Text duplicate (1)
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Text duplicate (1)
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Click to fill-in
/delivery-feesTrivial anchor text
here
https://merkgold.com/Anchor U.S. patent #8,626,641
/storage/60/7XsyhQmzgckGWEFFtv...Subdomain Text duplicate Factsheet
https://merkgold.com/faqOUNZ FAQs
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Trivial anchor text
click here
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsea...New window External Subdomain Read more...
https://merkgold.com/faqProcessing Fees
https://merkgold.com/faqExchange Fee
https://merkgold.com/faqDelivery Fee
/delivery-feesText duplicate Trivial anchor text
here
/taking-deliveryonline calculator
/taking-deliveryText duplicate Trivial anchor text
click here
/delivery-feesText duplicate Trivial anchor text
here
https://merkgold.com/uploading
https://merkgold.com/faqAnchor Text duplicate Processing Fees
/delivery-feesTrivial anchor text
Click here
/downloads/ounz-prospectus.pdfNew window prospectus
https://merkgold.com/faq"When will I receive my gold?"
https://merkgold.com/faqOUNZ FAQ
https://merkgold.com/Anchor contact us online
https://www.lbma.org.uk/good-d...New window External Subdomain London Good Delivery Standards
https://www.lbma.org.uk/respon...New window External Subdomain Responsible Sourcing
https://www.lbma.org.uk/respon...External Subdomain LBMA's Responsible Sourcing
/storage/72/UwRZ97IqlJURyQIuzS...Subdomain gold bars held by OUNZ
https://merkgold.com/Anchor contact us
/storage/60/7XsyhQmzgckGWEFFtv...Subdomain Text duplicate Factsheet
https://merkgold.com/OUNZ's Guiding Principles
https://merkgold.com/faqText duplicate OUNZ FAQs
/storage/60/7XsyhQmzgckGWEFFtv...Subdomain Text duplicate Factsheet
http://www.merkinvestments.com...External Subdomain London Bars
https://merkgold.com/website
https://merkgold.com/Trust's Guiding Principles
http://www.merkinvestments.com...External Subdomain Text duplicate London Bars
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Exchange Fees
/delivery-feesText duplicate Trivial anchor text
click here
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Text duplicate Exchange Fees
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Text duplicate "When will I receive my gold?"
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Text duplicate contact us
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Share Submission date
https://merkgold.dev.tenpixls....External Subdomain Text duplicate prospectus
https://merkgold.com/Guiding Principles
https://merkgold.com/Text duplicate U.S. patent #8,626,641
/taking-deliveryOUNZ calculator
/taking-deliveryText duplicate OUNZ calculator
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Share Submission Date
https://merkgold.com/Text duplicate Trust's Guiding Principles
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Cash Proceeds
/taking-deliveryText duplicate OUNZ calculator
/delivery-feesText duplicate Trivial anchor text
click here
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Text duplicate Exchange Fee
https://merkgold.com/Anchor Text duplicate Delivery Fee
/download-file/af335800-1194-4...New window Fact Sheet
/download-file/af335800-1194-4...New window No Text
/download-file/02c08e92-2bd1-4...New window Text duplicate Prospectus
/download-file/02c08e92-2bd1-4...New window No Text
/download-file/c2ff0826-8874-4...New window 10-Q July 31, 2024
/download-file/c2ff0826-8874-4...New window No Text
/download-file/b69453ba-987a-4...New window 8-K August 20, 2024
/download-file/b69453ba-987a-4...New window No Text
/download-file/abffc900-475a-4...New window 10-Q April 30, 2024
/download-file/abffc900-475a-4...New window No Text
/download-file/8ae27d18-07e7-4...New window 10-K January 31, 2024
/download-file/8ae27d18-07e7-4...New window No Text
/download-file/bfa15354-834e-4...New window Premium/Discount Q3 2024
/download-file/bfa15354-834e-4...New window No Text
/download-file/e26bdba2-cfaa-4...New window Premium/Discount Q2 2024
/download-file/e26bdba2-cfaa-4...New window No Text
/download-file/920fbf99-4a95-4...New window Premium/Discount Q1 2024
/download-file/920fbf99-4a95-4...New window No Text
/download-file/e2cbb3b6-a381-4...New window Premium/Discount Q4 2023
/download-file/e2cbb3b6-a381-4...New window No Text
/download-file/ea2e396c-6237-4...New window 10Q July 31, 2024 (XBRL)
/download-file/ea2e396c-6237-4...New window No Text
/download-file/3e4f8fce-241b-4...New window 10-Q April 30, 2024 (XBRL)
/download-file/3e4f8fce-241b-4...New window No Text
/download-file/53835d89-da08-4...New window Tax Reporting 2023
/download-file/53835d89-da08-4...New window No Text
https://new.merkgold.com/downl...External Subdomain Text duplicate prospectus
/downloads/ounz-prospectus.pdfText duplicate prospectus
/downloads/ounz-prospectus.pdfText duplicate prospectus
https://merkgold.com/Go to homepage
IMG-ALT VanEck Merk Gold Trust Logo
https://www.merkinvestments.co...External Subdomain Text duplicate Insights & Research
https://www.merkinvestments.co...External Subdomain Text duplicate About Merk

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 is very slow (1.76 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (243 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSat, 16 Nov 2024 23:35:30 GMT
serverApache
cache-controlno-cache, private
set-cookie436 Characters
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 43 referring domains.
This page has 590 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 39 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow:

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Gold86%Check
Merk86%Check
Merk Gold86%Check
VanEck Merk Gold81%Check
Merk Gold ETF80%Check
Gold ETF78%Check
VanEck Merk Gold ETF78%Check
Gold OUNZ78%Check
VanEck72%Check
deliver gold72%Check
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