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SEO Keyword summary for www.thenational.scot
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long Tail Keywords (2 words) general election seven days reader rewards contact us election 2024 |
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www.thenational.scot On-Page SEO Scan
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news scottish independence
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what to expect from the nationals election coverage and how to subscribe
nigel farage a traitor to the interests of the people on these islands says fm
scottish greens call for end to gender reform veto ahead of major pride event
owen jones this election campaign is a travesty and the media are to blame
an insult to all ukrainians snp hit back at nigel farage russia comments
hotel in the highlands shortlisted for prestigious sustainability award
israeli strikes on tent camps near rafah kill at least 25 health ministry says
scottish airport launches new route to canadian port city
jk rowling at war with labour over abandoning women on transgender rights
awardwinning glasgow willy wonka garden opens at childrens hospital
everything you need to know about edinburgh pride as it returns for 2024
the scottish places ranked among the best city breaks in the uk for 2024
all eyes on mark nelson and alan cumming as euros charity sweepstake group a ends
here is where you can charge your electric car on the nc500
the best restaurants and eateries on the north coast 500 worth trying
scotlands best trafficfree cycling routes revealed in new list
composer gareth williams on the 10 things that changed his life
see the best hotels on the nc500 perfect after a long day of driving
scotlands rarest and most stunning wild animals to see if youre lucky
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our-scotland seven of the best family friendly cycling routes to try across scotland
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scottish greens
alba
labour
conservatives
the jouker
fmqs
holyrood
scottish independence supporters attend all under one banner march in stirling
andrew tickell paula vennells has failed to give a decent apology
lesley riddoch manifesto launch is a start but snp need to build excitement
question time left us with the sorry image of a lost manchild
gerry hassan continuity politics will not be enough whether its labour or snp
george kerevan biggest threat to snp candidates comes not from alba but greens
joanna cherry voters deserve better than the same policies with different faces
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times are changing and scotland must land on the right side
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SEO Advice for www.thenational.scot
In this section we provide pointers on how you can to optimize your web page so it can be found more easily by search engines and how to make it rank higher by optimizing the content of the page itself. For each of the individual criteria the maximum score is 100%. A score below 70% is considered to be indication that the page is not complying with general SEO standards and should be evaluated and/or fixed. Not every factor is weighted the same and some are not as important as others. Relatively unimportant factors like meta keywords are not included in the overall score.
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PageTitle | 100% | Far too many sites lack a page title. A page title is the first thing that shows in the search results so always use the title element. | |
Title relevance | 98% | A title should reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 75 % match | |
Title Length | 80% | Limit your title to anywhere between 40 and 70 characters. Your title was 71 characters long | |
Meta Description | 100% | A meta description is the second element that shows in the search results so always use the meta description. | |
Meta description length | 70% | The meta description should be between 145 and 160 characters. This meta description is 118 characters long. | |
Meta description relevance | 52% | Meta Description should reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 28 % match | |
Number of internal links | 30% | Linking to internal pages makes pages easier to find for search engines. Try to keep the number of links on your page roughly below 100. There are 235 internal links on this page. | |
Folder structure | 100% | We found a folder structure in the links on your page. A good folder structure makes a site easier to navigate. We found 12 level 1 folders and 16 folders above or in the first level of navigation. | |
Headings | 25% | Headers should reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 11 % match | |
Links | 20% | Link anchors should to some degree reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 10 % match | |
Image alt tags | 17% | Image alt tags should to some degree reflect the contents of a site. This site has a 6 % match | |
Bold and italic | 99% | Bold and italic tags should reflect the contents of a site to some degree. This site has a 33 % match | |
Html ratio | 60% | Try to keep the html / text ratio as low as possible. More html means longer loading times. Layout should be handled in a serpate css file | |
Image descriptions | 84% | 83.823529411765 % of all images have been described via the "alt" attribute. Describing images with relevant text may lead to better results in the search engines. | |
Page errors | 100% | Pages with no errors display significantly faster on most browsers. We detected 0 errors and warnings | |
WordCount | 60% | An ideal page contains between 400 and 600 words.This page contains 899 words | |
Server response time | 100% | A fast server speeds up a website. This server responds 47.42% faster then average | |
Gzip Compression | 100% | This site uses Gzip compression to display faster | |
Keywords in Domainname | 100% | There are important keywords in your domain name | |
Structured Data | 100% | Structured data makes it easier for search engines to index your website | |
Inline css | 0% | Do not use inline css declarations. Inline css will slow down the rendering of the website. We detected 40 inline style declarations ( <a style="color:green">) with a size of 689 bytes | |
Excessive use of the same words | 100% | There is no indication that there are one or more keywords that are used excessively. | |
Frames or iframes | 100% | Perfect, detected not (i)frames on your webpagina | |
Flash | 100% | Perfect, we detected no flash objects on your page | |
Css | 30% | We detected too much (5) CSS files on your page. Css files block the loading of a webpage. | |
Javascript | 30% | Wij detected too much (19) blocking JavaScript files. Try to combine or defer the loading of JavaScript files | |
Mobile Website | 100% | Perfect, we found a responsive design for mobile users | |
Most important heading | 100% | Perfect, we detected a correct use of the most important (h1) heading! | |
Normalized headings | 40% | We dit not font a normalized heading structure. A heading 2 (h2) for example should be followed by a heading of an equal level (h2), a child heading (h3) or even a aprent heading (h1). |
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66 images found at www.thenational.scot Images can improve the user experience for a website by making a pag visually appealing Images can also add extra keyword relevance to a webpage by using alt tags. Images can also slow down a website. If the width and height for a picture is not specified for a browser know in advance how large the image is. A browser must first load the picture and see before it knows how much space should be on the page. Upon reservation In the meantime, the browser can do little but wait. When the height and width for the plate are given in the HTML code, a browser just continues to build for a page while the images load in the background.
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