pllandscaping.com, read 2 days ago. Back to the report
89 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 #32,948 of 263,758Step 1 top 10%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
Show sources on guides
+2 points, to 91, and #20,126, 12,822 places up, and into the top 10%
Link the sources for the guide's facts where a reader can see them. Official and primary sources carry the most weight.
14 pages
See the pages
- /benefits-loam
- /benefits-mulching
- /earth-day
- /food-for-jamaica
- /green-snow-pro-certification
- /lawn-seeding-guid
- /lawn-seeding-hire
- /rainy-day-tips
- /snow-day-tips
- /snow-removal
- and 4 more in the copied plan
- 2
Fix description lengths
+1 point, to 92
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
73 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-1
- /about-2
- /benefits-loam
- /benefits-mulching
- /call-to-action-1
- /call-to-action-2
- /call-to-action-3
- /cart-2
- /checkout-2
- and 63 more in the copied plan
- 3
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 94
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
98 pages
See the pages
- /about-1
- /about-2
- /benefits-loam
- /benefits-mulching
- /call-to-action-1
- /call-to-action-2
- /call-to-action-3
- /cart-2
- /checkout-2
- /commercial-services-old/irrigation-installation-maintenance
- and 88 more in the copied plan
- 4
Answer the first question right under it
+2 points, to 96
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.
19 pages
See the pages
- /benefits-loam
- /benefits-mulching
- /cornerstone-awards-2023
- /earth-day
- /food-for-jamaica
- /green-snow-pro-certification
- /lawn-seeding-guid
- /lawn-seeding-hire
- /nh-homes-hardscaping
- /rainy-day-tips
- and 9 more in the copied plan
- 5
Phrase headings as questions
+1 point, to 97
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
19 pages
See the pages
- /benefits-loam
- /benefits-mulching
- /cornerstone-awards-2023
- /earth-day
- /food-for-jamaica
- /green-snow-pro-certification
- /lawn-seeding-guid
- /lawn-seeding-hire
- /nh-homes-hardscaping
- /rainy-day-tips
- and 9 more in the copied plan
- 6
Put figures in tables
Under a point
Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.
20 pages
See the pages
- /benefits-loam
- /benefits-mulching
- /cornerstone-awards-2023
- /customer-questions-on-landscape-mulch
- /earth-day
- /food-for-jamaica
- /green-snow-pro-certification
- /lawn-seeding-guid
- /lawn-seeding-hire
- /nh-homes-hardscaping
- and 10 more in the copied plan
- 7
Add depth to thin pages
+1 point, to 98
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
15 pages
See the pages
- /benefits-loam
- /benefits-mulching
- /cornerstone-awards-2023
- /earth-day
- /food-for-jamaica
- /lawn-seeding-guid
- /lawn-seeding-hire
- /nh-homes-hardscaping
- /rainy-day-tips
- /service/summer-services
- and 5 more in the copied plan
- 8
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 99
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
48 pages
See the pages
- /about-1
- /about-2
- /cart-2
- /checkout-2
- /commercial-services-old/landscape-maintenance
- /commercial-services-old/masonry-hardscapes
- /cornerstone-awards-2023
- /counter-1
- /counter-2
- /counter-3
- and 38 more in the copied plan
- 9
List your profiles in your structured data
Under a point
Add sameAs to the Organization, Person or LocalBusiness on your home page, listing the address of each profile: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, X, LinkedIn. It is how assistants tie your site to you elsewhere.
Once, for the whole site
- 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
Set a share image
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
35 pages
See the pages
- /call-to-action-1
- /call-to-action-2
- /call-to-action-3
- /cart-2
- /checkout-2
- /counter-1
- /counter-2
- /counter-3
- /faq-style-1
- /feature-product-isotope
- and 25 more in the copied plan
3 more, to tidy up after 100
- 12
Describe images
Under a point
Describe every content image in its alt text.
11 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about-1
- /about-2
- /customer-questions-on-landscape-mulch
- /home-1-one-page
- /nh-homes-hardscaping
- /residential-services-old/irrigation-system-installation-maintenance
- /snow-removal
- /spring-maintenance
- /summer-lawn-care-tips
- and 1 more in the copied plan
- 13
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
3 pages
See the pages
- /
- /food-for-jamaica
- /home-1-one-page
- 14
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
4 pages
See the pages
- /about-2
- /cornerstone-awards-2023
- /our-work-old/video-gallery
- /residential-services-old/irrigation-system-installation-maintenance
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 50 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/checkout-2873 ms/my-account-2869 ms/498 ms/lawn-seeding-guid462 ms/service-grid-4379 ms
Fastest: /call-to-action-3, 34 ms. Heaviest: /cart-2, 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.
WordPressPlatform
ApacheServer
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
jQueryLibrary
BootstrapLibrary
Google FontsFonts
Font AwesomeFonts
- pages with strong signs
- 6
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 7
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 3.8
/home-1-one-pageplaceholders never filled in/about-1placeholders never filled in/about-2placeholders never filled in/faq-style-1placeholders never filled in/info-box-1placeholders never filled in
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: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/cornerstone-awards-2023fails 8: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Phrase headings as questions1 page/snow-removalfails 8: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Phrase headings as questions1 page/benefits-loamfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Add depth to thin pages1 page/benefits-mulchingfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Add depth to thin pages1 page/earth-dayfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Add depth to thin pages1 page/food-for-jamaicafails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Add depth to thin pages1 page/green-snow-pro-certificationfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Phrase headings as questions1 page/nh-homes-hardscapingfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Phrase headings as questions1 page/snow-day-tipsfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Add depth to thin pages1 page/spring-maintenancefails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Add depth to thin pages1 page/what-are-hardscapesfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Show sources on guides and Add depth to thin pages1 page
And 75 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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