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SEO audit: www.about.com

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About.com

www.about.com/
The largest source for Expert content on the Internet that helps users answer questions, solve problems, learn something new or find inspiration.

Domain / URL audit

URL
Domain : www.about.com/
Length (characters) : 14
Alexa
Alexa global rank: 206
IP checking
The 207.241.148.122 ip address is not on the spam list.

Meta data

Keywords (meta keywords)
Excellent! The website does not use “meta keywords”. Using “meta keywords” is meaningless since September 2009.
Description (meta description)
The largest source for Expert content on the Internet that helps users answer questions, solve problems, learn something new or find inspiration.

Length (characters) : 145

Excellent! The length of the meta description on this site is between 70 and 160 characters.
Open Graph Protocol
Excellent! The OG (Open Graph) protocol is set on this website.

type: website
site_name: About.com
image: http://f.tqn.com/y/southernfood/1/S/D/_/5/GettyImages-171262279.jpg

Dublin Core
Error! The website does not use the Dublin Core schema.

SEO audit: Content analysis

Language
Error! No language localisation is found.
Title
About.com

Length (characters) : 9

Improve! The website address (title) should be between 10 and 70 characters in length.
Text / HTML ratio
Ratio : 4%

Error! The text / HTML code ratio is under 15 percent on this website. This value shows that the website has relatively few text content.
Flash
Excellent! The website does not have any flash contents.
Frame
Excellent! The website does not use iFrame solutions.
Keywords cloud
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Keywords consistency
Keyword Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
travel 78
food 42
expert 26
home 22
careers 20
more 18
Keywords (2 words) Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
more about 7
see all 7
news issues 3
expert trending 3
frugal living 3
apartment living/rental 2
Keywords (3 words) Content Title Description (meta description) Headings (headings)
baby's first year 2
Headings (headings)
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H1 is missing
Heading structure in the source code
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  • <H2> 10 Eye Pencil Tricks All Women Should Know
  • <H4> Trending on About.com
  • <H4> Total Body Strength Workouts for Beginners
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  • <H3> Trending in Travel
  • <H3> Everything on About.com
  • <H5> We deliver. Get the best of About Today in your inbox.
  • <H5> Thanks, You're in!
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Images
We found 58 images on this web page.

Alternate attributes for the following 31 images are missing. Search engines use "alt" tags to understand image content efficiently. We strongly recommend fixing this issue.

SEO audit: technology

Redirection (www / not www)
Excellent! The web address is accessible only in one version. The version without www is redirected to the version with www.
Favicon
Excellent! The website uses favicon.
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Perfect! The character encoding is set: UTF-8.
Deprecated HTML
Excellent! No deprecated HTML tags are detected.
Printability
Suggestion! Unfortunately, no printer-friendly CSS found.
404 Page
The website has a 404 error page.
Checking the robots.txt file
There is robots.txt file.
http://www.about.com/robots.txt
User-agentDisallow (parts which have been disallowed for the search engines)
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Sitemap
Error! No sitemap found!
Google Analytics
The website has Google Analytics tracking code.
Google Tag Manager
The website uses the Google Tag Manager.
Email encryption
Excellent! We have not found any unencrypted email addresses.
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