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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
26% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.17 s
File size
167.70 kB
Words
770
Media files
33
Number of links
105 internal / 22 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
College Essay Guy | College Application and Essay Help
The length of the page title is perfect. (508 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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College Essay Guy - Personal statement and college essay tips, guides, resources, consulting, and webinars for students, parents and counselors.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (902 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.collegeessayguy.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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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
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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
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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
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 770 words. That's ok.
24.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.38 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (31). We recommend using a maximum of 15 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
20 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.

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Page structure

H1 heading
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College Essay Guy | Get Inspired
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

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H1 College Essay Guy | Get Inspired
H1 Your home for college admission support
H2 We bring more ease, joy, and purpose to the college admission process through free resources, online courses and one-on-one coaching.
H2 Free Resources
H2 Video Courses
H2 One-on-One Support
H2 When it comes to college admissions, we pretty much have all the things.
H2 College Application Hub
H2 Upcoming Webinars
H2 YouTube Channel
H2 College Essay Guy Blog
H2 Podcast
H2 Most of our courses are Pay-what-you-can—which means anyone can join.
H2 All Student Courses
H2 All Counselor Courses
H2 Meet with an experienced essay specialist or counselor. Receive personalized, comprehensive support. Get all your questions answered.
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H2 The Matchlighters Scholars Program pairs high-achieving students from low-income households with experienced college counselors.
H2 College Essay Guy offers tons of free and paid resources and professional development opportunities for college counselors working in high schools, community based organizations, or independent pra...
H2 Free Resources for Counselors
H2 Online Video Courses
H2 Workshops & Speaking Events
H2 Essay Writing Curriculum
H2 Parent Community
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 22 external links on this page.

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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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HTTP header
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This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.17 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (168 kB).

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Blacklists
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This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,634 referring domains.
This page has 20,979 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,272 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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