morganhandyman.com, read 3 days ago. Back to the report
80 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 #111,574 of 265,018Step 1 top 25%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
Remove ratings with no visible reviews
+7 points, to 87, and #46,975, 64,599 places up, and into the top 25%
Remove rating schema unless the reviews it counts are shown on the page.
66 pages
See the pages
- /
- /anacortes
- /arlington
- /bellevue
- /bellingham
- /blaine
- /blog
- /bothell
- /burien
- /burlington
- and 56 more in the copied plan
- 2
Show every FAQ question on the page
+5 points, to 92
Show every question in the FAQ schema on the page, word for word.
100 pages
See the pages
- /
- /accessibility-statement
- /anacortes
- /arlington
- /bathroom-painting
- /bathroom-remodel-gallery
- /bathroom-remodel-seattle
- /bathtub-refinishing
- /bellevue
- /bellingham
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 3
Describe images
+3 points, to 95
Describe every content image in its alt text.
100 pages
See the pages
- /
- /accessibility-statement
- /anacortes
- /arlington
- /bathroom-painting
- /bathroom-remodel-gallery
- /bathroom-remodel-seattle
- /bathtub-refinishing
- /bellevue
- /bellingham
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 4
Fix title lengths
+2 points, to 97
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
49 pages
See the pages
- /anacortes
- /arlington
- /bathroom-remodel-seattle
- /bellevue
- /bellingham
- /blaine
- /blog
- /bothell
- /burien
- /burlington
- and 39 more in the copied plan
- 5
Fix description lengths
+1 point, to 98
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
47 pages
See the pages
- /blaine
- /blog
- /bothell
- /burlington
- /can-a-handyman-do-plumbing
- /decks-gallery
- /des-moines
- /do-you-tip-a-handyman
- /does-a-handyman-need-a-license
- /does-a-handyman-need-insurance
- and 37 more in the copied plan
- 6
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
- 7
Put figures in tables
+1 point, to 99
Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.
5 pages
See the pages
- /can-a-handyman-do-plumbing
- /can-you-write-off-home-repairs-on-your-taxes
- /do-you-tip-a-handyman
- /does-a-handyman-need-a-license
- /what-does-a-handyman-do
- 8
Answer the first question right under it
Under a point
Answer the first question in the paragraph right under it, in 25 to 90 words. Whether the paragraph truly answers is for the judge or a person to say.
2 pages
See the pages
- /can-you-write-off-home-repairs-on-your-taxes
- /how-to-find-a-good-handyman
- 9
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
- 10
Use one main heading
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
16 pages
See the pages
- /can-a-handyman-do-plumbing
- /can-you-write-off-home-repairs-on-your-taxes
- /do-you-tip-a-handyman
- /does-a-handyman-need-a-license
- /does-a-handyman-need-insurance
- /exterior-painting
- /hardscape
- /home-cleaning
- /home-painting
- /how-to-find-a-good-handyman
- and 6 more in the copied plan
3 more, to tidy up after 100
- 11
Link straight to the final address
Under a point
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
6 pages
See the pages
- /commercial-cleaning
- /deck-repair-and-painting-seattle
- /drywall-repair-seattle
- /garage-remodel-seattle
- /handyman-repairs-seattle
- /kitchen-remodel-and-renovation-seattle
- 12
Set each page's canonical address
Under a point
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
2 pages
See the pages
- /bathroom-remodel-seattle
- /faqs-2
- 13
Bring deep pages closer to home
Under a point
Link to the page from a hub or a related page so it sits within three clicks of the home page.
1 page
See the pages
- /kirkland
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 1,983 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.
/carpet-cleaning3.7 s/door-repair3.4 s/exterior-painting3.0 s/home-painting3.0 s/bellevue2.9 s
Fastest: /, 82 ms. Heaviest: the home page, 102 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
nginxServer
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
Google reCAPTCHALibrary
jQueryLibrary
BootstrapLibrary
Google FontsFonts
Font AwesomeFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: a Home and construction business named Morgan Handyman & Remodel. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- Yelpmorgan-handyman-and-remodel-mountlake-terrace-3
- Facebookprofile.php
- LinkedInmorgan-handyman-&-remodel
- BBBmorgan-handyman-remodel-llc-1296-1000127009
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 1.1
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 3: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Describe images1 page/can-a-handyman-do-plumbingfails 6: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Use one main heading1 page/does-a-handyman-need-a-licensefails 6: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Use one main heading1 page/kirklandfails 6: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Fix description lengths1 page/what-does-a-handyman-dofails 6: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Use one main heading1 page/blainefails 5: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Fix description lengths1 page/blogfails 5: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Fix description lengths1 page/bothellfails 5: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Fix description lengths1 page/burlingtonfails 5: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Fix description lengths1 page/can-you-write-off-home-repairs-on-your-taxesfails 5: Answer the first question right under it, Show every FAQ question on the page and Use one main heading1 page/deck-repair-and-painting-seattlefails 5: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Describe images1 page/des-moinesfails 5: Remove ratings with no visible reviews, Show every FAQ question on the page and Fix description lengths1 page
And 88 more parts of the site.
The read stopped at its page limit, so pages no link leads to cannot be told from pages it did not reach, and neither is reported.
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