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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
27% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.11 s
File size
319.90 kB
Words
1750
Media files
17
Number of links
117 internal / 63 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Christi Jacobsen - Montana Secretary of State - Official Montana Secretary of State Website - Christi Jacobsen
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 993 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to the official website of the Montana Secretary of State's Office where we are proud to serve our Montana businesses, voters, notaries, and other
The length of the meta description is perfect. (957 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://sosmt.gov/
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1750 words. That's ok.
22.9% 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.
21 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 14.52 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: registered agents
Some tags are too long. With 120 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"a very user-friendly site which allowed me to update, file and submit payment for the 2022 annual repo..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
10 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
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...ntent/uploads/christi-logo-web-white.pngOfficial Montana Secretary of State Website - Christi Jacobsen
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...ploads/home-page-features-elections.webpNo alt attribute provided
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data:[...] Base64Charles Heringer, Business Services Customer
data:[...] Base64Kelly Manzer, Business Services Customer
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
About The Office:
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 111 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 About The Office:
H1 ARM:
H1 Election Division
H1 Business Services
H1 Notary Division
H1 Apostilles
H1 ARM & MAR
H1 OFFICIAL WEBSITE
H1 Civics
H1 Elections
H1 Business Services Duplicate text
H1 Customer Testimonials
H1 Our Office
H1 Help & Resources
H1 Records Management
H2 Christi Jacobsen
H2 There is still time to file your 2024 Annual Report.
H2 ARM Home Page
H2 Historical Information
H2 Rulemaking Resources
H2 Search the ARM
H2 Emergency Rules
H2 Secretary of State Rule Notices
H2 Filing Deadlines & Publication Schedule
H2 Rulemaking Statutes
H2 Rulemaking Rules
H2 Notice Templates
H2 Montana Code Annotated
H2 Visual Guide to Administrative Rulemaking
H2 321,000+
H2 780,000+
H2 Election & Voter Services
H2 Business & UCC Filings
H2 Notary Services
H2 Apostilles & Authentications
H2 Administrative Rules
H2 Montana Secretary of State
H2 Secretary Christi Jacobsen: ‘Absentee ballot packets sent to Montana’s active, registered absentee voters’
H2 2024 Voter Information Pamphlet Available to Montana Voters
H2 Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen waiving 2025 Annual Report fees, again saving Montana businesses millions
H3 Duties & Functions
H3 News & Media
H3 Contact & Feedback
H3 Annual Plan
H3 Board of Examiners
H3 History of the Office
H3 About the State Seal
H3 About the State Flag
H3 Employment Opportunities
H3 Oath of Office
H3 U.S. Constitution
H3 Montana Constitution
H3 Contact:
H3 Physical Address:
H3 Mailing Address:
H3 Business & UCC Home Page
H3 Business Filing Portal
H3 Register A Business
H3 Help Center & FAQs
H3 Annual Report
H3 Business Name Search
H3 Business Fee Sheet
H3 Montana Business Economic Report
H3 Your Businesses
H3 Commercial Agents
H3 Non-Commercial Agents
H3 Commercial Agent List
H3 Principal Search
H3 Request Certificates or Copies
H3 Corporate Download
H3 Corporate Bulk Download Layout
H3 UCC Services
H3 Litigation Financer Form
H3 Contact: Duplicate text
H3 Physical Address: Duplicate text
H3 Mailing Address: Duplicate text
H3 Elections & Voter Help Center
H3 Elections Home Page
H3 Election Forms
H3 Military & Overseas Voters
H3 Voters with Disabilities
H3 Election Official Forms
H3 Election Official Resources
H3 Election Results
H3 Statewide Voter File
H3 Frequently Asked Questions
H3 Candidate Filing
H3 Information & Forms
H3 Political Parties
H3 Campaign Finance
H3 Write-In Candidate Info
H3 Term Limits
H3 Current Ballot Measures
H3 Past Ballot Measures
H3 Election Calendars
H3 Serving As A Poll Worker
H3 Fair Elections Center
H3 County Voting Systems
H3 County Election Administrator
H3 Contact: Duplicate text
H3 Physical Address: Duplicate text
H3 Mailing Address: Duplicate text
H3 Contact: Duplicate text
H3 Physical Address: Duplicate text
H3 Mailing Address: Duplicate text
H3 — 2024 General Election
H3 Christi Jacobsen Duplicate text
H3 Charles Heringer, Business Services Customer
H3 Kelly Manzer, Business Services Customer
H3 Melissa Ross, Business Services Customer
H4 Montana Secretary of State Duplicate text
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
43 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (63) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://twitter.com/sosjacobsenNew window External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/secr...New window External Subdomain Instagram
/contact-feedback/Contact Us
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/about-secretary-jacobsen/Learn more about your Montana Secretary of State, Christi Jacobsen.
/about-secretary-jacobsen/No Text
/duties-functions/No Text
https://media.sosmt.gov/External Subdomain No Text
/contact-feedback/No Text
/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpf...No Text
https://sosmt.gov/examiners/No Text
https://sosmt.gov/history/No Text
https://sosmt.gov/state-seal/No Text
https://sosmt.gov/state-flag/No Text
https://sosmt.gov/employment/No Text
/wp-content/uploads/Oath-Templ...No Text
http://constitutionus.com/External No Text
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/t...External Subdomain No Text
/contact-feedback/Visit our Contact Page and Web Form.
https://sosmt.gov/business/Business & UCC
https://sosmt.gov/business/No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/authExternal Subdomain No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/forms/bu...External Subdomain No Text
/business/help-center/No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/b...External Subdomain No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/b...Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
https://sosmt.gov/business/fees/No Text
/economic-report/No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/b...External Subdomain No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/craExternal Subdomain No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/craExternal Subdomain No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/api/repo...External Subdomain No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/forms/ne...External Subdomain No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/forms/in...External Subdomain No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/forms/ne...External Subdomain No Text
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http://biz.sosmt.gov/External Subdomain No Text
/business/lit-fin-form/No Text
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/b...New window External Subdomain File Now
https://media.sosmt.gov/topics...External Subdomain No Text
https://sosmt.gov/elections/Elections
https://votemt.gov/External More Info
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https://sosmt.gov/elections/No Text
/elections/forms/No Text
/elections/military-overseas/No Text
/elections/disabilities/No Text
/elections/official-forms/No Text
/elections/resources/No Text
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/elections/voter-file/No Text
https://sosmt.gov/elections/faq/No Text
/elections/filing/No Text
/elections/filing/Anchor No Text
/elections/parties/No Text
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/elections/write-ins/No Text
/elections/term_limits/No Text
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/elections/ballot_issues/No Text
/elections/calendars/No Text
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/elections/fairelections/No Text
/elections/systems/No Text
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https://sosmt.gov/notary/Notary & Apostilles
https://sosmt.gov/notary/Certification & Notary Services
/apostilles-authentications/Apostilles & Authentications
https://sosmt.gov/arm/ARM
https://sosmt.gov/arm/register/View Current Issues & Montana Administrative Register (MAR)
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/arm/rulemaking-resources/No Text
http://www.mtrules.org/External Subdomain No Text
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/arm/filing-deadlines/No Text
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/t...External Subdomain No Text
http://mtrules.org/gateway/dep...External No Text
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https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/i...External Subdomain No Text
/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpf...No Text
https://sosmt.gov/land-board/Land Board
https://sosmt.gov/search/Search
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https://sosmt.gov/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Official Montana Secretary of State Website - Christi Jacobsen
https://sosmt.gov/search/Text duplicate Search
/about-secretary-jacobsen/About Secretary Jacobsen
/duties-functions/Duties and Functions of the Secretary of State
https://media.sosmt.gov/External Subdomain News & Media
/contact-feedback/Contact & Feedback
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https://sosmt.gov/examiners/Board of Examiners
https://sosmt.gov/history/History of the Office
https://sosmt.gov/state-seal/The State Seal
https://sosmt.gov/state-flag/The State Flag
https://sosmt.gov/employment/Employment Opportunities
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http://constitutionus.com/External U.S. Constitution
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/t...External Subdomain Montana Constitution
/civic-engagement/Civic Engagement
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/b...External Subdomain Annual Report Due April 15th
https://sosmt.gov/business/Biz Home Page
https://biz.sosmt.gov/authExternal Subdomain Filing Portal
/business/help-center/Business Help Center
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/b...External Subdomain Business Name Search
https://sosmt.gov/business/fees/Fee Sheet
/business/economic-report/Economic Report
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/b...External Subdomain Your Business
https://biz.sosmt.gov/api/repo...External Subdomain Commercial Agents
https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/craExternal Subdomain Non-Commercial Agents
https://biz.sosmt.gov/api/repo...External Subdomain Commercial Agent List
https://biz.sosmt.gov/forms/ne...External Subdomain Principal Search
https://biz.sosmt.gov/forms/in...External Subdomain Request Certificates or Copies
https://biz.sosmt.gov/forms/ne...External Subdomain Corporate Download
/wp-content/uploads/BulkDownlo...Corporate Bulk Download Layout
http://biz.sosmt.gov/External Subdomain UCC Services
https://sosmt.gov/elections/Elections Home Page
https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/External Subdomain My Voter Page
https://sosmt.gov/elections/faq/Frequently Asked Questions
/elections/results/Election Results
/elections/forms/Election Forms
/elections/official-forms/Elections Official Forms
/elections/resources/Election Official Resources
/elections/systems/County Voting Systems
https://votemt.gov/External Voter Help Center
/elections/military-overseas/Military & Overseas Voters
/elections/disabilities/Voters with Disabilities
/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpf...County Election Administrator
/elections/judge/Serve as an Election Judge
/elections/calendars/Election Calendars
/elections/fairelections/Fair Elections Center
/elections/voter-file/Statewide Voter File
https://civics.sosmt.gov/External Subdomain Youth Voting
/elections/filing/File for Office
/elections/term_limits/Term Limits
/elections/parties/Political Parties
https://politicalpractices.mt....External Subdomain Campaign Finance
/elections/write-ins/Write-In Candidate Information
/elections/ballot_issues/propo...Current Ballot Measures
/elections/ballot_issues/Past Ballot Measures
https://sosmt.gov/notary/Notary
/apostilles-authentications/Apostilles
https://sosmt.gov/arm/ARM Home Page
https://sosmt.gov/arm/register/MAR – Montana Administrative Register
/arm/filing-deadlines/Filing Deadlines
https://sosmt.gov/arm/emergency/Emergency Rules
http://www.mtrules.org/External Subdomain Search ARM
https://sosmt.gov/land-board/Board of Land Commissioners
https://sosmt.gov/records/Records and Information Management
https://sosmt.gov/elections/New window Go to Elections Division
https://votemt.gov/New window External Voter & Election Information
https://electionresults.mt.gov/New window External Subdomain Primary Election Results
https://prodcandidatefiling.mt...New window External Subdomain General Election Candidate List
/elections/ballot_issues/propo...New window 2024 Ballot Issues
https://sosmt.gov/elections/vip/New window 2024 Voter Information Pamphlet
https://sosmt.gov/business/Go to Business Services
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https://sosmt.gov/notary/Go to Notary Services
/apostilles-authentications/Go to Apostilles
https://sosmt.gov/arm/Go to Administrative Rules
https://media.sosmt.gov/New window External Subdomain media.sosmt.gov
https://media.sosmt.gov/secret...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Full News Article
https://media.sosmt.gov/2024-v...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Full News Article
https://media.sosmt.gov/secret...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Full News Article
/contact-feedback/Submit Your Feedback
https://sosmt.gov/Anchor No Text
/contact-feedback/Text duplicate Contact Us
/wp-content/uploads/ADA-Notice...New window ADA Notice
http://mt.gov/discover/disclai...New window External Anchor Accessibility
https://mt.gov/1240-X06.pdfNew window External Privacy & Security
http://www.mt.gov/New window External Subdomain mt.gov
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/i...New window External Subdomain MCA
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https://sosmt.gov/records/Access RIM

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sosmt.gov/"
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 0.11 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (320 kB).

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 3,037 referring domains.
This page has 130,167 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,876 different ip addresses.

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