fergusoncontractors.com, read 2 days ago. Back to the report
57 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 #226,522 of 263,590Step 1 #195,322Step 3 top 50%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
Add a way to get in touch
+9 points, to 66, and #195,322, 31,200 places up
Give the page a form or a clear link to request a quote or get in touch.
18 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-ferguson.html
- /contact.html
- /cp-naugatuck.html
- /cp-uconn.html
- /cp-waterbury.html
- /electrical.html
- /how-we-work.html
- /index.html
- /mechanical.html
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 2
Add structured data
+7 points, to 73
Add valid JSON-LD that says what the page is.
18 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-ferguson.html
- /contact.html
- /cp-naugatuck.html
- /cp-uconn.html
- /cp-waterbury.html
- /electrical.html
- /how-we-work.html
- /index.html
- /mechanical.html
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 3
Add a tap-to-call link
+6 points, to 79, and into the top 50%
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
18 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-ferguson.html
- /contact.html
- /cp-naugatuck.html
- /cp-uconn.html
- /cp-waterbury.html
- /electrical.html
- /how-we-work.html
- /index.html
- /mechanical.html
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 4
Set each page's canonical address
+6 points, to 85
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
18 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-ferguson.html
- /contact.html
- /cp-naugatuck.html
- /cp-uconn.html
- /cp-waterbury.html
- /electrical.html
- /how-we-work.html
- /index.html
- /mechanical.html
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 5
Use one main heading
+5 points, to 90
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
18 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-ferguson.html
- /contact.html
- /cp-naugatuck.html
- /cp-uconn.html
- /cp-waterbury.html
- /electrical.html
- /how-we-work.html
- /index.html
- /mechanical.html
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 6
Fix description lengths
+3 points, to 93
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
18 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-ferguson.html
- /contact.html
- /cp-naugatuck.html
- /cp-uconn.html
- /cp-waterbury.html
- /electrical.html
- /how-we-work.html
- /index.html
- /mechanical.html
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 7
Describe images
+3 points, to 96
Describe every content image in its alt text.
13 pages
See the pages
- /
- /electrical.html
- /how-we-work.html
- /index.html
- /mechanical.html
- /past-projects.html
- /pp-buley.html
- /pp-linden.html
- /pp-pequot.html
- /pp-pfizer.html
- and 3 more in the copied plan
- 8
Set a share image
+1 point, to 97
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
18 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-ferguson.html
- /contact.html
- /cp-naugatuck.html
- /cp-uconn.html
- /cp-waterbury.html
- /electrical.html
- /how-we-work.html
- /index.html
- /mechanical.html
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 9
Fix pages that fail to load
+1 point, to 98
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
1 page
See the pages
- /JS4058%20Ferguson%20Website%20
- 10
Serve a robots.txt
+1 point, to 99
Serve a plain text /robots.txt.
Once, for the whole site
- 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
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
- 13
Match structured data to the page
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
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
3 more, to tidy up after 100
- 14
Add depth to thin pages
Under a point
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
The home page
- 15
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
- 16
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
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 76 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/pp-buley.html154 ms/pp_e.haddam.html147 ms/147 ms/cp-naugatuck.html136 ms/pp-pfizer.html95 ms
Fastest: /past-projects.html, 65 ms. Heaviest: /pp-linden.html, 4 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.
ApacheServer
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 7.5
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 10: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/JS4058%20Ferguson%20Website%20passes every rule1 page/electrical.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/how-we-work.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/index.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/mechanical.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/past-projects.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/pp_e.haddam.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/pp-buley.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/pp-linden.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/pp-pequot.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page/pp-pfizer.htmlfails 8: Add a way to get in touch, Add structured data and Set each page's canonical address1 page
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