a1-roofing.com, read 2 days ago. Back to the report
92 to 100 in 13 steps
Do them in this order. Each step says what to change, on which pages, and what it adds. Hand the whole plan to your agent, or work through it yourself.
Now #20,117 of 263,793Step 1 top 5%Step 13 full marks
Worked out from this read, with every step before it done. A score says pages are well formed. It does not say an assistant cites the site.
The steps
Each is one change across the pages named. When one is live, read the site again and mttr marks it done.
- 1
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 94, and #7,450, 12,667 places up, and into the top 5%
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
21 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /blog
- /contact-us
- /epdm-flat-roof
- /faq
- /flat-roof-replacement-cost
- /gallery
- /ib-roofing-membrane
- /manufacture-industrial-flat-roofs
- /metal-roof-repair
- and 11 more in the copied plan
- 2
Make near-copy pages distinct
Under a point
Rewrite or merge pages that share most of their text. A page that only swaps a city or product name is what search engines treat as doorway or scaled content.
Once, for the whole site
- 3
Describe images
+2 points, to 96
Describe every content image in its alt text.
12 pages
See the pages
- /blog
- /flat-roof-replacement-cost
- /gallery
- /manufacture-industrial-flat-roofs
- /multi-family-flat-roofs
- /new-homes-and-additions
- /remodeling-and-additions
- /residential-flat-roofs
- /roof-care
- /roof-repairs
- and 2 more in the copied plan
- 4
Show every FAQ question on the page
+1 point, to 97
Show every question in the FAQ schema on the page, word for word.
8 pages
See the pages
- /faq
- /manufacture-industrial-flat-roofs
- /multi-family-flat-roofs
- /new-homes-and-additions
- /remodeling-and-additions
- /residential-flat-roofs
- /roof-repairs
- /small-business-flat-roofs
- 5
Set a share image
+1 point, to 98
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
22 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /blog
- /contact-us
- /epdm-flat-roof
- /faq
- /flat-roof-replacement-cost
- /gallery
- /ib-roofing-membrane
- /manufacture-industrial-flat-roofs
- and 12 more in the copied plan
- 6
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 99
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
7 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /contact-us
- /epdm-flat-roof
- /flat-roof-replacement-cost
- /services
- /small-business-flat-roofs
- /when-to-replace-tar-and-gravel-roof
- 7
Publish a sitemap
Under a point
Publish /sitemap.xml listing every page that should rank, and name it in robots.txt.
Once, for the whole site
- 8
Settle on one address
Under a point
Redirect http, https, www, and the bare domain to one address, so the site is not indexed as several.
Once, for the whole site
- 9
Put figures in tables
Under a point
Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.
2 pages
See the pages
- /flat-roof-replacement-cost
- /when-to-replace-tar-and-gravel-roof
- 10
Speed up the server
Under a point
Cache pages or speed up the server. Crawlers give a slow site fewer visits.
Once, for the whole site
- 11
Add an llms.txt
Under a point
Add /llms.txt: a short plain text map of the site for assistants. Its effect is unproven, so treat it as cheap insurance.
Once, for the whole site
- 12
Link to your profiles
Under a point
Link from the home page, in its header or footer, to each profile you keep: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, X, LinkedIn.
Once, for the whole site
- 13
Phrase headings as questions
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
1 page
See the pages
- /ib-roofing-membrane
3 more, to tidy up after 100
- 14
Link to pages from related content
Under a point
Link to this page from the text of a related page. Navigation links say a page exists; links in content say what it is related to.
1 page
See the pages
- /metal-roof-repair
- 15
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
The home page
- 16
Add lists or tables
Under a point
Add a table, a list, or a definition list. Assistants quote these more readily than prose.
1 page
See the pages
- /when-to-replace-tar-and-gravel-roof
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 1,881 ms to start answering, past the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. Caching or a faster server helps every page at once. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/manufacture-industrial-flat-roofs3.0 s/residential-flat-roofs2.7 s/gallery2.6 s/blog2.4 s/small-business-flat-roofs2.3 s
Fastest: /, 103 ms. Heaviest: the home page, 59 KB.
Read from its home page’s code and the headers its server sent. A tool that loads later, or only on other pages, is not seen here.
WordPressPlatform
CloudflareHosting
WP EngineHosting
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
Google reCAPTCHALibrary
jQueryLibrary
BootstrapLibrary
Font AwesomeFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Fischer Roofing Co.. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- pages with strong signs
- 19
- hidden characters
- 56
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 1.7
/abouthidden characters a reader cannot see/serviceshidden characters a reader cannot see/small-business-flat-roofshidden characters a reader cannot see/faqhidden characters a reader cannot see/residential-flat-roofshidden characters a reader cannot see
A sign is not proof. Hidden characters can carry a watermark or instructions meant for an AI, and they come off with a clean copy of the text.
/fails 2: Use one main heading and Set a share image1 page/flat-roof-replacement-costfails 5: Put figures in tables, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/small-business-flat-roofsfails 5: Show every FAQ question on the page, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/when-to-replace-tar-and-gravel-rooffails 5: Put figures in tables, Add lists or tables and Fix title lengths1 page/manufacture-industrial-flat-roofsfails 4: Show every FAQ question on the page, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/multi-family-flat-roofsfails 4: Show every FAQ question on the page, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/new-homes-and-additionsfails 4: Show every FAQ question on the page, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/remodeling-and-additionsfails 4: Show every FAQ question on the page, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/residential-flat-roofsfails 4: Show every FAQ question on the page, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/roof-repairsfails 4: Show every FAQ question on the page, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/servicesfails 4: Describe images, Fix title lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/aboutfails 3: Fix title lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page
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