phmloans.com, read 2 days ago. Back to the report
77 to 100 in 11 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 #131,600 of 264,157Step 1 #71,050Step 2 top 25%Step 11 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 structured data
+7 points, to 84, and #71,050, 60,550 places up
Add valid JSON-LD that says what the page is.
99 pages, 51 of them under /state/
See the pages
- /
- /about-prosperity
- /blog-and-news
- /blog-article/market-update---october-16-2026
- /blog-article/market-update-october-23-2026
- /brokerage-partners
- /career-opportunities
- /communication-optout
- /contact-us
- /customer-service
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 2
Set each page's canonical address
+6 points, to 90, and into the top 25%
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
99 pages, 51 of them under /state/
See the pages
- /
- /about-prosperity
- /blog-and-news
- /blog-article/market-update---october-16-2026
- /blog-article/market-update-october-23-2026
- /brokerage-partners
- /career-opportunities
- /communication-optout
- /contact-us
- /customer-service
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 3
Describe images
+4 points, to 94
Describe every content image in its alt text.
99 pages, 51 of them under /state/
See the pages
- /
- /about-prosperity
- /blog-and-news
- /blog-article/market-update---october-16-2026
- /blog-article/market-update-october-23-2026
- /brokerage-partners
- /career-opportunities
- /communication-optout
- /contact-us
- /customer-service
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 4
Fix description lengths
+3 points, to 97
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
98 pages, 51 of them under /state/
See the pages
- /
- /about-prosperity
- /blog-and-news
- /blog-article/market-update---october-16-2026
- /brokerage-partners
- /career-opportunities
- /communication-optout
- /contact-us
- /customer-service
- /explore-our-family-of-brands
- and 88 more in the copied plan
- 5
Set a share image
+2 points, to 99
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
97 pages, 51 of them under /state/
See the pages
- /
- /about-prosperity
- /blog-and-news
- /brokerage-partners
- /career-opportunities
- /communication-optout
- /contact-us
- /customer-service
- /explore-our-family-of-brands
- /find-us
- and 87 more in the copied plan
- 6
Let AI crawlers in
Under a point
Remove the robots.txt rules that shut out AI crawlers. On Cloudflare, also turn off "Block AI bots", which writes these rules for you.
Once, for the whole site
All 5 sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
Steps for your host: Cloudflare, WordPress, Namecheap and more - 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
All 5 sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
- 9
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
- 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
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
11 pages
See the pages
- /blog-and-news
- /contact-us
- /find-us
- /loans-programs/mortgage-101
- /loans-programs/refinance
- /payments
- /privacy-policy
- /rapid-close
- /terms-of-use
- /testimonials
- and 1 more in the copied plan
3 more, to tidy up after 100
- 12
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
3 pages
See the pages
- /
- /career-opportunities
- /find-us
- 13
Fix pages that fail to load
Under a point
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
1 page
4 of the 5 sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
See the pages
- /pathway-to-prosperity
- 14
Link straight to the final address
Under a point
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
2 pages
See the pages
- /rapid-close
- /uplift
Done since the first read
Add a tap-to-call link
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 93 pages before.
Serve a robots.txt
Done, seen on the read of October 19. It failed on 1 page before.
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 87 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/state/california3.3 s/state/washington-dc2.8 s/understanding-your-credit-score722 ms/program/good-neighbor-next-door572 ms/program/the-competivedge-pledge192 ms
Fastest: /program/mortgage-process-roadmap, 45 ms. Heaviest: /blog-article/market-update-october-23-2026, 44 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.
WebflowPlatform
CloudflareHosting
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
HubSpotMarketing
Google FontsFonts
- pages with strong signs
- 12
- hidden characters
- 27
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 0.3
/program/basics-of-buyinghidden characters a reader cannot see/privacy-policyhidden characters a reader cannot see/program/things-to-provide-document-checklisthidden characters a reader cannot see/state-licensinghidden characters a reader cannot see/program/lock-shop-homehidden 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 7: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Use one main heading1 page/pathway-to-prosperitypasses every rule1 page/find-usfails 7: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Use one main heading1 page/rapid-closefails 7: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Fix description lengths1 page/upliftfails 7: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Fix description lengths1 page/blog-and-newsfails 6: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Fix description lengths1 page/career-opportunitiesfails 6: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Use one main heading1 page/contact-usfails 6: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Fix description lengths1 page/paymentsfails 6: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Fix description lengths1 page/privacy-policyfails 6: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Fix description lengths1 page/terms-of-usefails 6: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Fix description lengths1 page/testimonialsfails 6: Add structured data, Set each page's canonical address and Fix description lengths1 page
And 17 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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