theconversation.com, read 4 days ago. Back to the report
76 to 100 in 7 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 #139,330 of 264,832Step 1 top 50%Step 7 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 83, and #79,882, 59,448 places up, and into the top 50%
Add valid JSON-LD that says what the page is.
100 pages
See the pages
- /africa
- /africa/arts
- /africa/business
- /africa/climate
- /africa/education
- /africa/environment
- /africa/health
- /africa/politics
- /africa/technology
- /au
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 2
Add a tap-to-call link
+7 points, to 90
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
100 pages
See the pages
- /africa
- /africa/arts
- /africa/business
- /africa/climate
- /africa/education
- /africa/environment
- /africa/health
- /africa/politics
- /africa/technology
- /au
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 3
Describe images
+3 points, to 93
Describe every content image in its alt text.
98 pages
See the pages
- /africa
- /africa/arts
- /africa/business
- /africa/climate
- /africa/education
- /africa/environment
- /africa/health
- /africa/politics
- /africa/technology
- /au
- and 88 more in the copied plan
- 4
Fix description lengths
+3 points, to 96
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
89 pages
See the pages
- /africa
- /africa/arts
- /africa/business
- /africa/climate
- /africa/education
- /africa/environment
- /africa/health
- /africa/politics
- /africa/technology
- /au
- and 79 more in the copied plan
- 5
Set a share image
+2 points, to 98
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
100 pages
See the pages
- /africa
- /africa/arts
- /africa/business
- /africa/climate
- /africa/education
- /africa/environment
- /africa/health
- /africa/politics
- /africa/technology
- /au
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 6
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 99
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
30 pages
See the pages
- /africa
- /au
- /br
- /ca
- /es
- /es/arte-humanidades
- /es/bienestar-digital-y-menores
- /es/ciencia
- /es/economia
- /es/educacion
- and 20 more in the copied plan
- 7
Use one main heading
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
12 pages, 8 of them under /es/
See the pages
- /africa/technology
- /es/arte-humanidades
- /es/ciencia
- /es/economia
- /es/educacion
- /es/junior
- /es/medicina
- /es/medioambiente
- /es/sociedad
- /fr
- and 2 more in the copied plan
3 more, to tidy up after 100
- 8
Serve a robots.txt
Under a point
Serve a plain text /robots.txt.
Once, for the whole site
- 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
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
3 pages
See the pages
- /africa/arts
- /au/books
- /uk
Done since the first read
Set each page's canonical address
Done, seen on the read of October 22. It failed on 1 page before.
Link straight to the final address
Done, seen on the read of October 22. It failed on 1 page before.
Let AI crawlers in
Done, seen on the read of October 22. It failed on 1 page before.
Fix pages that fail to load
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 37 pages before.
Add a way to get in touch
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 1 page before.
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 63 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/us/health365 ms/id/isu-anak-muda333 ms/us/politics326 ms/nz/education265 ms/nz/health225 ms
Fastest: /br, 9 ms. Heaviest: /ca/culture, 286 KB.
- pages with strong signs
- 5
- hidden characters
- 28
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 6.5
/uk/podcastshidden characters a reader cannot see/uk/healthhidden characters a reader cannot see/us/podcastshidden characters a reader cannot see/ukhidden characters a reader cannot see/brhidden 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.
/frfails 7: Add structured data, Use one main heading and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/ukfails 7: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/africafails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/aufails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/brfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/cafails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/esfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/europefails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/globalfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/idfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/nzfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/usfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page
And 12 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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