charitylink.net, read 13 hours ago. Back to the report
77 to 100 in 12 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 #135,480 of 263,590Step 1 top 50%Step 12 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 tap-to-call link
+7 points, to 84, and #70,819, 64,661 places up, and into the top 50%
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
98 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /apply
- /benefits
- /cart
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-central
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-north
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-south
- /complaints
- /contact
- and 88 more in the copied plan
- 2
Use one main heading
+4 points, to 88
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
92 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /benefits
- /cart
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-central
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-north
- /complaints
- /contact
- /hull
- /ipswich
- /jobs-barnsley
- and 82 more in the copied plan
- 3
Describe images
+4 points, to 92
Describe every content image in its alt text.
97 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /apply
- /benefits
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-central
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-north
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-south
- /complaints
- /contact
- /home
- and 87 more in the copied plan
- 4
Fix description lengths
+3 points, to 95
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
96 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /apply
- /benefits
- /cart
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-south
- /complaints
- /contact
- /home
- /hull
- and 86 more in the copied plan
- 5
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 97
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
97 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /apply
- /benefits
- /cart
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-central
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-north
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-south
- /complaints
- /contact
- /home
- and 87 more in the copied plan
- 6
Set a share image
+2 points, to 99
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
91 pages
See the pages
- /apply
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-central
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-north
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-south
- /complaints
- /contact
- /hull
- /ipswich
- /jobs-barnsley
- /jobs-bath
- and 81 more in the copied plan
- 7
Put the text in the HTML
Under a point
Put the page text in the HTML the server sends. Most AI crawlers do not run scripts.
The home page
- 8
Link to orphaned pages
Under a point
Link to each of these from a related page. A page only the sitemap knows about is treated as unimportant.
Once, for the whole site
- 9
Add depth to thin pages
Under a point
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
The home page
- 10
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
- 11
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
8 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /cart
- /charity-fundraiser-jobs-south
- /contact
- /home
- /privacy-policy
- /services
- 12
Fix pages that fail to load
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
2 pages
See the pages
- /blog
- /blog/award-winning-mentoring-and-coaching-for-face-to-face-fundraising-personal-development
2 more, to tidy up after 100
- 13
Set each page's canonical address
Under a point
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
2 pages
See the pages
- /cart
- /home
- 14
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
2 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /work-with-us
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 393 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/jobs-southend-on-sea1.2 s/jobs-st-albans1.1 s/jobs-sutton1.0 s/jobs-swindon927 ms/jobs-leeds685 ms
Fastest: /jobs-grimsby, 39 ms. Heaviest: /charity-fundraiser-jobs-central, 87 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.
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From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: a Local business named Charity Link. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- pages with strong signs
- 97
- hidden characters
- 776
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 1.7
/hidden characters a reader cannot see/abouthidden characters a reader cannot see/applyhidden characters a reader cannot see/benefitshidden characters a reader cannot see/carthidden 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 6: Put the text in the HTML, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/blogpasses every rule1 page/aboutfails 7: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/contactfails 7: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/privacy-policyfails 7: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/cartfails 6: Set each page's canonical address, Use one main heading and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/charity-fundraiser-jobs-southfails 6: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/complaintsfails 6: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/homefails 6: Set each page's canonical address, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/hullfails 6: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/ipswichfails 6: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/jobs-barnsleyfails 6: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page
And 88 more parts of the site.
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