barracudachan.org, read 4 days ago. Back to the report
58 to 100 in 10 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 #224,801 of 263,577Step 1 #191,351Step 3 top 50%Step 10 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
Add a way to get in touch
+9 points, to 67, and #191,351, 33,450 places up
Give the page a form or a clear link to request a quote or get in touch.
70 pages, 58 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /
- /820chanlander
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/about/chillwavebeach
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- and 60 more in the copied plan
- 2
Add structured data
+7 points, to 74
Add valid JSON-LD that says what the page is.
70 pages, 58 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /
- /820chanlander
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/about/chillwavebeach
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- and 60 more in the copied plan
- 3
Set each page's canonical address
+6 points, to 80, and into the top 50%
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
70 pages, 58 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /
- /820chanlander
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/about/chillwavebeach
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- and 60 more in the copied plan
- 4
Add a tap-to-call link
+7 points, to 87
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
70 pages, 58 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /
- /820chanlander
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/about/chillwavebeach
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- and 60 more in the copied plan
- 5
Fix description lengths
+3 points, to 90
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
70 pages, 58 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /
- /820chanlander
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/about/chillwavebeach
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- and 60 more in the copied plan
- 6
Describe images
+3 points, to 93
Describe every content image in its alt text.
59 pages, 49 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /
- /820chanlander
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /adultswim
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/about/chillwavebeach
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- /boards/art
- /boards/art/bumpers
- and 49 more in the copied plan
- 7
Use one main heading
+2 points, to 95
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
26 pages, 21 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/cartoons/favcar
- /boards/food/Canoli
- /boards/food/Scallop
- /boards/food/foodboard
- /boards/food/pizza
- /boards/movies/ND
- and 16 more in the copied plan
- 8
Set a share image
+2 points, to 97
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
70 pages, 58 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /
- /820chanlander
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/about/chillwavebeach
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- and 60 more in the copied plan
- 9
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 99
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
66 pages, 56 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about
- /boards/about/about
- /boards/about/chillwavebeach
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- /boards/art
- /boards/art/bumpers
- and 56 more in the copied plan
- 10
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
21 pages, 15 of them under /boards/
See the pages
- /SpikeSpiegel
- /TheVoid
- /adultswim
- /boards/about
- /boards/about/factbook
- /boards/about/neighbor
- /boards/art
- /boards/art/vaporwaveart
- /boards/cartoons
- /boards/cartoons/bayou
- and 11 more in the copied plan
3 more, to tidy up after 100
- 11
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
- 12
Match structured data to the page
Under a point
Use the schema type that matches the page: Article for guides, Service or Product for offers, Organization or WebSite for the home page.
The home page
- 13
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
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 31 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/141 ms/boards/video-games94 ms/boards/food/pizza84 ms/boards/movies77 ms/boards/movies/district974 ms
Fastest: /boards/cartoons/BC, 9 ms. Heaviest: the home page, 12 KB.
- pages with strong signs
- 5
- hidden characters
- 7
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 9
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 4.1
/TheVoidmarkdown never turned into formatting/hidden characters a reader cannot see/boards/about/abouthidden characters a reader cannot see/boards/movies/collectionhidden characters a reader cannot see/boards/video-games/profileshidden 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 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/adultswimfails 10: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/kurtcobainfails 10: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/SpikeSpiegelfails 10: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/floridafails 9: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/pomnifails 9: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/potfails 9: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/TheVoidfails 9: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/churchfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/thomasjeffersonfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/820chanlanderfails 7: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/digitalgrovefails 7: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page
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