Bctransferguide.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
93% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.06 s
File size
45.30 kB
Words
439
Media files
6
Number of links
49 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
BC Transfer Guide
The page title is too short. (166 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Use the BC Transfer Guide to see how to transfer courses, credits, and programs to a BC university, college, or institute.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (738 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.bctransferguide.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionUse the BC Transfer Guide to see how to transfer courses, credits, and programs to a BC university, college, or institute.
google-site-verification2JGSmVwmmccNA6RkyXmWspmVO4tPeTUXX6LqwsORuIU
generatorSite Kit by Google 1.154.0
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www.bctransferguide.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/favicon.png
article:modified_time2025-01-29T17:51:15+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@bctransferguide
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleBC Transfer Guide
og:descriptionUse the BC Transfer Guide to see how to transfer courses, credits, and programs to a BC university, college, or institute.
og:urlhttps://www.bctransferguide.ca/
og:site_nameBC Transfer Guide
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 439 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.47 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...uploads/2021/06/logo-bctransferguide.svgBC Transfer Guide
...ent/uploads/2021/06/logo-bccat-white.svgBCCAT Logo White
...ent/uploads/2021/06/logo-bcgov-white.svgBC Government Logo White
Video URLWidthHeight
...?list=PLwF7-d6rLJfuCVQPhmu9ayK3kPyaHud7S640360
...?list=PLwF7-d6rLJfuvHSQJCq9RfJP9Fz3MJetM640360
...ube.com/embed/RH7qCBijusY?feature=oembed640360

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Course Lookup
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Course Lookup
H2 Transfer Search
H3 Course to Course
H3 Block Transfer
H3 Degree Partnership
H3 Adult Basic Education
H3 English as an Additional Language
H3 Advanced Placement
H3 International Baccalaureate
H3 How To
H3 Transfer To
H3 Students are Mobile
H3 What Is Transfer?
H3 Discover Transfer Options
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.bctransferguide.ca/Anchor Skip to content
https://twitter.com/bctransfer...New window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://youtube.com/@bccat_orgNew window External No Text
https://www.bctransferguide.ca/Subdomain IMG-ALT BC Transfer Guide
/how-transfer-works/Subdomain How Transfer Works
/how-transfer-works/transfer-f...Subdomain Transfer from Outside BC
/how-transfer-works/types-of-t...Subdomain Types of Transfer Credit
/transfer-options/Subdomain Transfer Options
/transfer-options/search-courses/Subdomain Search Courses
/transfer-options/search-progr...Subdomain Search Programs
/transfer-options/adult-basic-...Subdomain Search Adult Basic Education
/transfer-options/eal/Subdomain Search English as an Additional Language
/learn-more-about/Subdomain Learn More About
/learn-more-about/associate-de...Subdomain Associate Degrees
/learn-more-about/program-spec...Subdomain Program Specific Transfer
/learn-more-about/advanced-pla...Subdomain Advanced Placement
/learn-more-about/internationa...Subdomain International Baccalaureate
/bc-transfer-system/Subdomain BC Transfer System
/bc-transfer-system/institutions/Subdomain BC Institutions
/bc-transfer-system/transfer-p...Subdomain Transfer Policies
/help/Subdomain How To Use Course Search
/transfer-options/search-courses/Subdomain Course to Course The course-to-course search allows you to see how individual courses transfer to each other. C2C
/transfer-options/search-progr...Subdomain Block Transfer Block Transfer is when a group of courses, often in the form of a certificate, diploma, or associate degree, is recognized as a whole for tran...
/transfer-options/search-progr...Subdomain Anchor Degree Partnership A list of degree partnerships between BC post-secondary institutions. DP
/transfer-options/adult-basic-...Subdomain Adult Basic Education Programs to help adults develop basic skills, obtain a secondary school diploma, and vocational training. ABE
/transfer-options/eal/Subdomain English as an Additional Language A list of equivalencies that show how students can meet English language requirements. EAL
/learn-more-about/advanced-pla...Subdomain Advanced Placement Secondary school program that provide students with the opportunity to earn advanced credit towards their undergraduate degrees. AP
/learn-more-about/internationa...Subdomain International Baccalaureate An enriched secondary school program offered at various schools across the world. IB
/how-transfer-works/Subdomain More Info
/learn-more-about/Subdomain Text duplicate More Info
/transfer-options/search-courses/Subdomain Text duplicate Search Courses
/transfer-options/search-progr...Subdomain Text duplicate Search Programs
/transfer-options/adult-basic-...Subdomain Text duplicate Search Adult Basic Education
/transfer-options/eal/Subdomain Text duplicate Search English as an Additional Language
/learn-more-about/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More About
/learn-more-about/associate-de...Subdomain Text duplicate Associate Degrees
/learn-more-about/program-spec...Subdomain Text duplicate Program Specific Transfer
/learn-more-about/advanced-pla...Subdomain Text duplicate Advanced Placement
/learn-more-about/internationa...Subdomain Text duplicate International Baccalaureate
/how-transfer-works/Subdomain Text duplicate How Transfer Works
/how-transfer-works/Subdomain Text duplicate How Transfer Works
/how-transfer-works/transfer-f...Subdomain Text duplicate Transfer from Outside BC
/how-transfer-works/types-of-t...Subdomain Text duplicate Types of Transfer Credit
/bc-transfer-system/Subdomain Text duplicate BC Transfer System
/bc-transfer-system/institutions/Subdomain Text duplicate BC Institutions
/bc-transfer-system/transfer-p...Subdomain Text duplicate Transfer Policies
https://www.bctransferguide.ca/Home
/help/Subdomain Search Help
https://bccat.ca/New window External IMG-ALT BCCAT Logo White
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT BC Government Logo White
/sitemapSubdomain Sitemap
/termsSubdomain Terms Of Use
/privacySubdomain Privacy
https://twitter.com/bctransfer...New window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://youtube.com/@bccat_orgNew window External No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bctransferguide.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (3.06 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (45 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 27 Jul 2025 02:01:44 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length13289
connectionkeep-alive
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-powered-byPHP/8.4.8
link<https://www.bctransferguide.ca/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
access-control-allow-origin*
access-control-allow-headersContent-Type
access-control-allow-methodsPOST,GET,OPTIONS
permissions-policygeolocation=none
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 100 referring domains.
This page has 6,923 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 92 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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Use the BC Transfer Guide to see how to transfer courses, credits, and programs to a BC university, college, or institute.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Transfer78%Check
BC Transfer74%Check
transfer guide74%Check
guide73%Check
BC Transfer Guide73%Check
Course66%Check
Transfer Credit61%Check
BC Transfer System60%Check
Block Transfer57%Check
Transfer Options57%Check
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