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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
77% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.21 s
File size
29.20 kB
Words
659
Media files
4
Number of links
29 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
The length of the page title is perfect. (321 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The homepage of author and photographer Craig Mod — long walks across Japan, pizza toast, books, photography, literature, and more.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (840 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://craigmod.com/
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
generatorHugo 0.107.0
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descriptionThe homepage of author and photographer Craig Mod — long walks across Japan, pizza toast, books, photography, literature, and more.
authorCraig Mod
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og:titleCraig Mod — Writer + Photographer
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://craigmod.com/
og:site_nameCraig Mod
og:imagehttps://craigmod.com/images/craigmod-homepage-image.jpg
og:descriptionThe homepage of author and photographer Craig Mod — long walks across Japan, pizza toast, books, photography, literature, and more.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 659 words. That's ok.
36.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 16.8 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "user-scalable=yes, width=device-width" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 112 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"“luminous, poignant, unflinching and kind, things become other things reads like a future classic of i..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...become_other_things/tbot-cover-small.jpgThings Become Other Things — Random House cover
...ssabykissa/kissabykissa-cover-2small.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/about/craigmod-headshot-2025-01.jpgCraig Mod in his messy Tokyo studio 2025
/images/about/craigmod-headshot-2025-01.jpgCraig Mod in his messy Tokyo studio 2025

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Published Essays
H2 Pizza Toast
H2 Recent Essays
H3 Things Become Other Things
H3 Kissa by Kissa
H3 Popular Essays
H3 My 'Rules' for Running My Membership Program
H3 Five Years of Memberships
H3 Running a Membership Program: Four Years In
H3 Drumming
H3 Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life
H3 Memberships Work
H4 A Walking Memoir
H4 How Apps are Made
H4 Walking Northern California
H4 Walk vs. Hike
H4 On Being a Good Newsletterer
H4 Six years of running SPECIAL PROJECTS. Here are my "rules" that guide the program.
H4 I've been running the SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program for five years; here's what I know.
H4 Everything I've learned in the first four years of running SPECIAL PROJECTS
H4 Returning to drumming after a fourteen-year break
H4 Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership
H4 What I learned during the third year of running my SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program
H5 Trench notes on app design
H5 An unexpected week of walks
H5 Notes and tips on how not to be a newsletter ding dong
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://craigmod.com/about/About Craig
https://craigmod.com/books/Books
https://craigmod.com/essays/Essays
https://craigmod.com/membership/Membership
https://shop.specialprojects.jp/External Subdomain Shop!
https://craigmod.com/membership/“Special Projects” Membership
https://craigmod.com/onmargins/On Margins
https://sw945.craigmod.com/External Subdomain SW945
https://craigmod.com/newsletters/Newsletters
https://craigmod.com/roden/Roden
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/Ridgeline
https://bsky.app/profile/craig...External No Text
https://instagram.com/craigmod/External No Text
https://threads.net/@craigmod/External No Text
/books/things_become_other_thi...IMG-ALT Things Become Other Things — Random House cover
https://www.penguinrandomhouse...External Subdomain Random House
https://amzn.to/3z1CjStExternal Amazon
https://bookshop.org/p/books/t...External Bookshop.org
https://books.apple.com/us/boo...External Subdomain Apple Books
https://www.barnesandnoble.com...External Subdomain Barnes & Noble
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain No Text
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain Purchase online.
https://craigmod.com/about/IMG-ALT Craig Mod in his messy Tokyo studio 2025
https://craigmod.com/about/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Craig Mod in his messy Tokyo studio 2025
/books/things_become_other_thi...Things Become Other Things
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain Kissa by Kissa
https://craigmod.com/roden/Text duplicate Roden
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/Text duplicate Ridgeline
https://craigmod.com/essays/essays and articles
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/0...External Subdomain “A Long Walk in a Fading Corner of Japan”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/l...External Subdomain “Last of the Kumano Kodō Kissaten”
https://www.wired.com/story/si...External Subdomain “The Glorious, Almost-Disconnected Boredom of My Walk in Japan”
https://www.wired.com/story/he...External Subdomain “The Healing Power of Code”
https://www.theatlantic.com/he...External Subdomain “How I Mastered the Art of Ventilating my Home”
https://www.theatlantic.com/te...External Subdomain “The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar”
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain Text duplicate Kissa by Kissa
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain 2nd ed.
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain third edition
https://shop.specialprojects.j...External Subdomain fourth fifth edition!
https://github.com/cmod/craigs...External Craigstarter
https://craigmod.com/membership/SPECIAL PROJECTS
/essays/how_apps_are_made/How Apps are Made Trench notes on app design
/ridgeline/164/Walking Northern California An unexpected week of walks
/ridgeline/030/Walk vs. Hike
/essays/on_writing_good_newsle...On Being a Good Newsletterer Notes and tips on how not to be a newsletter ding dong
/essays/membership_rules/My 'Rules' for Running My Membership Program Six years of running SPECIAL PROJECTS. Here are my "rules" that guide the program.
/essays/memberships_year_five/Five Years of Memberships I've been running the SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program for five years; here's what I know.
/essays/memberships_year_four/Running a Membership Program: Four Years In Everything I've learned in the first four years of running SPECIAL PROJECTS
/essays/drumming/Drumming Returning to drumming after a fourteen-year break
/essays/electric_bikes/Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership
/essays/memberships_work/Memberships Work What I learned during the third year of running my SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program
https://craigmod.com/about/Craig Mod
https://threads.net/@craigmod/External No Text
https://bsky.app/profile/craig...External No Text
https://instagram.com/craigmod/External No Text
https://craigmod.com/index.xmlNo Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://craigmod.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.21 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (29 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 460 referring domains.
This page has 3,413 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 342 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
The homepage of author and photographer Craig Mod — long walks across Japan, pizza toast, books, photography, literature, and more.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Craig73%Check
walk54%Check
Long Walk52%Check
walks50%Check
Pizza50%Check
Toast50%Check
Pizza Toast50%Check
Books48%Check
Things47%Check
Japan46%Check
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