Georgesaunders.substack.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
157.30 kB
Words
33
Media files
1
Number of links
0 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Story Club with George Saunders | Substack
The length of the page title is perfect. (401 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
A place to explore the way the short story works. Click to read Story Club with George Saunders, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
The meta description is too long: 1008 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://georgesaunders.substack.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)
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)
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 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

NameValue
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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0, viewport-fit=cover
authorGeorge Saunders
descriptionA place to explore the way the short story works. Click to read Story Club with George Saunders, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
theme-color#f7efe8
langen
twitter:titleStory Club with George Saunders | Substack
twitter:descriptionA place to explore the way the short story works. Click to read Story Club with George Saunders, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
twitter:imagehttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fgeorgesaunders.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D1663254617%26version%3D9
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:urlhttps://georgesaunders.substack.com/
og:typearticle
og:titleStory Club with George Saunders | Substack
og:descriptionA place to explore the way the short story works. Click to read Story Club with George Saunders, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
og:imagehttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fgeorgesaunders.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D1663254617%26version%3D9
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 33 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
33.3% of the text are stop words.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19 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, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
...a8b4-41bf-befd-e02a4a570952_1280x960.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://substack.com/tosNew window External Terms of Use
https://substack.com/ccpaNew window External Anchor Information Collection Notice
https://substack.com/privacyNew window External Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://georgesaunders.substack.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.22 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (157 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:45 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cf-ray9150df77aaa66f51-CDG
cf-cache-statusHIT
cache-controlno-cache
content-encodinggzip
etagW/"2752f-7vmU8D9ILNdVtWyp73a2H8zRGi0"
link<https://substackcdn.com>; rel=preconnect
set-cookie151 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
varyAccept-Encoding
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.substack.com https://substack.com
x-clustersubstack
x-deployd02159e1d1
x-powered-byExpress
x-served-bySubstack
x-serviceweb
x-subgeorgesaunders
servercloudflare
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 232 referring domains.
This page has 2,395 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 187 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:



User-agent: *
Disallow: /action/
Disallow: /publish
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /channel-frame
Disallow: /visited-surface-frame
Disallow: /feed/private
Disallow: /feed/podcast/*/private/*.rss
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /lovestack/*
Disallow: /p/*/comment/*
Disallow: /inbox/post/*
Disallow: /notes/post/*
Disallow: /embed


User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /
Allow: /subscribe


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Story Club with George Saunders | Substack
A place to explore the way the short story works. Click to read Story Club with George Saunders, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Substack70%Check
story58%Check
Short Story52%Check
place46%Check
explore46%Check
way46%Check
works46%Check
subscribers46%Check
Story Club40%Check
Substack publication40%Check
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