Highered.collegeboard.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
27.20 kB
Words
413
Media files
5
Number of links
21 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Higher Education Professionals | College Board
The length of the page title is perfect. (424 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Developed for higher education professionals, explore resources for recruiting, enrolling, placing, and retaining your incoming freshman class.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (870 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://highered.collegeboard.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 413 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.
9 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 19.29 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=2" 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 8 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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Partnering for Student Enrollment and Success
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Partnering for Student Enrollment and Success
H2 Unmatched Reach with College Board
H2 Identify Your Ideal Prospects
H2 Maximize Your Reach
H2 Open More Doors for Students
H2 Benefit from Research for Informed Decision Making
H2 Grow Your Knowledge
H2 Contact Us
H3 Recruitment and Admissions
H3 Financial Aid
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 1 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Higher Ed
/recruitment-admissionsRecruitment and Admissions Home
/recruitment-admissions/enroll...Enrollment Solutions
/recruitment-admissions/bigfut...BigFuture College Profile
/recruitment-admissions/landscapeLandscape
https://aces.collegeboard.org/External Subdomain ACES
/recruitment-admissions/polici...Policies, Research, and Insights
/financial-aid/managementFinancial Aid Home
/financial-aid/management/css-...CSS Profile
/financial-aid/management/net-...Net Price Calculator (NPC)
/financial-aid/management/powe...PowerFAIDS
/financial-aid/policies-researchText duplicate Policies, Research, and Insights
/assessmentsCollege Board Assessments
/professional-developmentProfessional Development and Training
/contact-us/higher-education-p...Contacts for Higher Education Professionals
/assessmentsLearn About our Assessments
/recruitment-admissionsDiscover our Recruitment and Admissions Services
/financial-aid/managementLearn About our Financial Aid Services
/recruitment-admissions/polici...Explore Recruitment and Admissions Research
/financial-aid/policies-researchExplore Financial Aid Research
/professional-developmentChoose an Event
/contact-us/higher-education-p...Get in Touch

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://highered.collegeboard.org/"
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 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (27 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 141 referring domains.
This page has 675 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 131 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
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Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
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# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.collegeboard.org/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://bluebook.collegeboard.org/sitemap.xml

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Search preview

highered.collegeboard.org
Higher Education Professionals | College Board
Developed for higher education professionals, explore resources for recruiting, enrolling, placing, and retaining your incoming freshman class.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Higher69%Check
Higher Education63%Check
College Board62%Check
College61%Check
Higher Education Professionals61%Check
Professionals58%Check
Student54%Check
Enrollment50%Check
Success50%Check
Partnering50%Check

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