Merkcapital.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
39% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
40% 
External factors
48% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.56 s
File size
11.90 kB
Words
106
Media files
3
Number of links
13 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
MERK Capital Corporation | Private Equity | Chicago, IL
The length of the page title is perfect. (499 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://merkcapital.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
(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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width
generatorWordPress 4.7.29
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleMERK Capital Corporation | Private Equity | Chicago, IL
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleMERK Capital Corporation | Private Equity | Chicago, IL
og:urlhttps://merkcapital.com/
og:site_nameMERK Capital Corporation
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 106 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 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 31.33 words is high.
26.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
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" is provided.
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)
2 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
/wp-content/themes/capital/images/logo.pngMERT Capital Logo
...t/themes/capital/images/header_about.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...al/images/header_investment_services.jpgNo 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.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 2 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 1 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://merkcapital.com/home.htmlHome
A-TITLE Home
/about.htmlAbout
A-TITLE About
/investment_services.htmlInvestment Philosophy
A-TITLE Investment Philosophy
/investment_strategy.htmlInvestment Strategy
A-TITLE Investment Strategy
/portfolio.htmlPortfolio
A-TITLE Portfolio
https://merkcapital.com/team.htmlTeam
A-TITLE team
/contact.htmlContact
A-TITLE contact
/about.htmlNo Text
/about.htmlTrivial anchor text
read more
/investment_services.htmlNo Text
/investment_services.htmlText duplicate Trivial anchor text
read more
/contact.htmlcontact
/disclosure.htmldisclosure
http://fwd-mktg.com/New window External design

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://merkcapital.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.56 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 (12 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
link<https://merkcapital.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://merkcapital.com/>; rel=shortlink
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSat, 28 Sep 2024 20:56:52 GMT
serverApache
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 11 referring domains.
This page only has 17 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 10 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Capital61%Check
MERK Capital60%Check
MERK59%Check
MERK Capital Corporation55%Check
Capital Corporation54%Check
private46%Check
Private Equity46%Check
Equity Group39%Check
Investment36%Check
businesses34%Check
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