- Middle site
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- Ahead by
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Worth the mostLink straight to the final address+2
Top 25%of the 31 sites in Cities and public services, at #6
It scores 84.
A score says pages are well formed. It does not say an assistant cites the site.
84 now91 with itTop 25% from 85
#75,328to#20,02355,305 places up99 of its 100 pages fail it. 1 in 3 ranked sites pass it.
Up 3,871 places since Oct 14, from #79,199. 1 point takes it into the top quarter.
8,585 sites score 84. A tie goes to the site with faster, leaner pages that say more and keep improving.
1 fix. Top 25% starts at 85.
Each stage against the middle site. It trails on Understand.
Worth the mostLink straight to the final address+2
Worth the mostAdd structured data+7
Worth the mostEach fix here is worth under a point
Worth the mostEach fix here is worth under a point
This siteWorse than typicalTypical, the middle ranked site, worked out each hour
15 fixes. The first 5 are worth the most; each group says the places it lifts the site, counted from where every ranked site scores now.
It reads mostly as cities and public services. 5 changes would make it plainer.
Cities and public servicesIt says it is in Arlington.
Its pages read only partly as Cities and public services. An assistant matches a site to a question by what its pages plainly say.
On usmayors.org, rewrite the home page title and its first sentence to say plainly what the business does, for whom and where, so the site reads as Cities and public services. Keep the title under 60 characters and lead with the service, not the name.
The title and the first heading share no word that says what the site does: “United States Conference of Mayors” and “Latest News”.
On usmayors.org, give the home page one first heading (h1) that says, in a reader's words, what its title says the site is: Cities and public services.
Its description is 267 characters and is cut off in results.
On usmayors.org, write the home page a meta description of one or two sentences, 50 to 160 characters: what the business does, for whom, and where.
The site is in Arlington, and its title, description, first heading and opening never say so. Questions to assistants often name a place.
On usmayors.org, name Arlington in the home page title or first sentence, and in the description, where it reads naturally.
Its home page declares no business or organization type, so a machine has to guess what it is.
On usmayors.org, add JSON-LD to the home page declaring the most particular schema.org type for the business (one that fits Cities and public services), with its name, address, phone and sameAs links to its own profiles.
mttr reads the site again and says how it reads now.
An estimate made by mttr against 16 lines of work, from its home page before any script runs. It is not what any assistant says about the site. Rethink the direction with us.
A question people ask about cities and public services in Arlington, VA. Its answer, and whether it cites usmayors.org, shows here in a moment.