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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
29% 
External factors
48% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.99 s
File size
48.40 kB
Words
313
Media files
44
Number of links
97 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Book Seller | A World of Books for Everyone!
The length of the page title is perfect. (438 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 313 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 258 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"we are an independent bookstore located in the heart of california's gold country, in historic downtow..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...s/thebookseller.biz/files/TBS_Logo_1.jpgThe Book Seller Logo
...ebookseller.biz/files/Did you know_0.gifNo alt attribute provided
...New From Local Author Kim Culbertson.pngNo alt attribute provided
...es/thebookseller.biz/files/IMG_1119.jpegJoin us for a celebration of all things Hunger Games!
...images/books/631/107/FC9781368107631.JPGPercy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) By Rick Riordan Cover Image
...images/books/491/795/FC9781736795491.JPGSilence By Julia Park Tracey Cover Image
...images/books/031/086/FC9781324086031.JPGPlayground: A Novel By Richard Powers Cover Image
...images/books/635/602/FC9780374602635.JPGIntermezzo: A Novel By Sally Rooney Cover Image
...images/books/223/734/FC9780593734223.JPGNexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI By Yuval Noah Harari Cover Image
...images/books/179/333/FC9781250333179.JPGA Pirate's Life for Tea (Tomes & Tea #2) By Rebecca Thorne Cover Image
...images/books/884/461/FC9780593461884.JPGPayal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot By Preeti Chhibber Cover Image
...images/books/691/348/FC9780063348691.JPGLula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books: A Novel By Kirsten Miller Cover Image
...images/books/227/653/FC9780593653227.JPGWe Solve Murders: A Novel By Richard Osman Cover Image
...images/books/847/280/FC9780063280847.JPGBook and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II By Elyse Graham Cover Image
...images/books/372/325/FC9781250325372.JPGA History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks By David Gibbins Cover Image
...images/books/843/578/FC9781635578843.JPGThe Great When: A Long London Novel By Alan Moore Cover Image
...images/books/472/802/FC9780593802472.JPGPassiontide: A Novel By Monique Roffey Cover Image
...images/books/290/573/FC9780316573290.JPGMadwoman By Chelsea Bieker Cover Image
...images/books/134/894/FC9781338894134.JPGRuin Road By Lamar Giles Cover Image
...images/books/818/829/FC9781250829818.JPGA House With Good Bones By T. Kingfisher Cover Image
...ba_staff_reviews/is_staff_pick_small.pngStaff Pick Badge
...images/books/469/289/FC9781250289469.JPGA Song to Drown Rivers: Deluxe Edition By Ann Liang Cover Image
...images/books/357/723/FC9780593723357.JPGSociety of Lies: Reese's Book Club: A Novel By Lauren Ling Brown Cover Image
...images/books/052/277/FC9780063277052.JPGThe Mighty Red: A Novel By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
...images/books/096/446/FC9780593446096.JPGTell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout Cover Image
...images/books/227/653/FC9780593653227.JPGWe Solve Murders: A Novel By Richard Osman Cover Image
...images/books/121/636/FC9781682636121.JPGCompound Fracture By Andrew Joseph White Cover Image
...images/books/635/602/FC9780374602635.JPGIntermezzo: A Novel By Sally Rooney Cover Image
...images/books/948/712/FC9780593712948.JPGThe Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story By Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translated by) Cover Image
...images/books/086/822/FC9781250822086.JPGCelestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology #2) By Aiden Thomas Cover Image
...images/books/926/959/FC9781665959926.JPGInheritance of Scars By Crystal Seitz Cover Image
...ba_staff_reviews/is_staff_pick_small.pngStaff Pick Badge
...images/books/949/616/FC9780593616949.JPGHeir (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick) By Sabaa Tahir Cover Image
...images/books/142/568/FC9780316568142.JPGThe Wild Huntress By Emily Lloyd-Jones Cover Image
...images/books/554/277/FC9781728277554.JPGThe Fate of Magic (Witch and Hunter) By Sara Raasch, Beth Revis Cover Image
...images/books/119/955/FC9781665955119.JPGThe Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome) By Catherine Doyle Cover Image
...images/books/520/320/FC9781250320520.JPGBury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil By V. E. Schwab Cover Image
...images/books/715/158/FC9780593158715.JPGAtmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story By Taylor Jenkins Reid Cover Image
...images/books/330/089/FC9781668089330.JPGNever Flinch: A Novel By Stephen King Cover Image
.../aba_staff_reviews/is_preorder_small.pngPre-Order Now Badge
...images/books/907/809/FC9780593809907.JPGThe Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2) By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illustrator) Cover Image
...images/books/704/582/FC9780316582704.JPGThe Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom #1) By Rachel Gillig Cover Image
...kseller.biz/files/lfm-website-banner.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
A World of Books for Everyone!
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 A World of Books for Everyone!
H1 Buzz-Worthy Books
H2 Search form
H2 Featured Titles
H2 Book Club Picks
H2 Limited Signed Editions
H2 Popular YA
H2 Coming Soon
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Need a gift certificate?
H2 Indie Bestsellers
H2 Indie Next List
H2 Kids Indie Next List
H2 Search form Duplicate text
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.thebookseller.biz/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.thebookseller.biz/IMG-ALT The Book Seller Logo
A-TITLE Home
https://www.thebookseller.biz/A-TITLE Home
https://www.facebook.com/grass...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/TheBookSel...New window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/theb...New window External Subdomain No Text
/search/advanced_searchAdvanced Search
/about-book-sellerAbout
/contact-usContact Us!
/tbs-policiesPolicies
/local-and-independent-author-...Local & Independent Author Submission Form
/wishlist-how-guideWishlist
https://www.thebookseller.biz/Shop
/hobbit-holiday-cheerHobbit Holiday Cheer
/indie-bestsellersBest Sellers
/indie-bestsellersIndie Best Sellers
/indie-next-listIndieBound Next List
/new-york-times-best-sellersNY Times Best Sellers
/cartCart
/tbs-gift-certificateGift Certificate
/pre-orderPre-Order
/audiobooksAudiobooks
/current-and-past-newslettersCurrent and Past Newsletters
A-TITLE Current and Past Newsletters
/local-interestLocal Interest
/local-authorsLocal Authors
/historyLocal History
/nature-outdoor-guidesNature Guides
/kids-cellarKids' Cellar
/welcome-wizarding-world-harry...Wizarding World of Harry Potter
/kids-cellarThe Kids' Cellar
/ages-0-3Ages 0-3
/youngsters-ages-4-9Ages 4-8
/ages-6-9Ages 6 to 9
/young-readers-9Ages 8 & Up
/ages-10Ages 10 & Up
A-TITLE Ages 10 & Up
/book-suggestions-teensAges 12 & Up
/book-suggestions-mature-teensAges 15 & Up
https://www.thebookseller.biz/Staff Picks
/addieAddie
/mikalas-picksAmanda
/anas-picksAna
/angies-picksAngie
/avas-picksAva
/baylees-picksBaylee
/grahams-picksGraham
/jessicaJessica
/jordans-picksJordan
/karens-picksKaren
/kits-picksKit
/mckinleys-picksMcKinley
/sunnys-picksSunny
/user?destination=nodeMy Account
/map-and-directionsMap and Directions
https://conta.cc/42Qx4hUExternal Trivial anchor text
HERE
/wishlist-how-guideText duplicate Trivial anchor text
HERE
https://libro.fm/indiesExternal No Text
/event/other-peoples-kids-rele...No Text
https://bookshop.org/pages/boo...External IMG-ALT Join us for a celebration of all things Hunger Games!
/book/9781368107631IMG-ALT Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) By Rick Riordan Cover Image
/book/9781736795491IMG-ALT Silence By Julia Park Tracey Cover Image
/book/9781324086031IMG-ALT Playground: A Novel By Richard Powers Cover Image
/book/9780374602635IMG-ALT Intermezzo: A Novel By Sally Rooney Cover Image
/book/9780593734223IMG-ALT Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI By Yuval Noah Harari Cover Image
/book/9781250333179IMG-ALT A Pirate's Life for Tea (Tomes & Tea #2) By Rebecca Thorne Cover Image
/book/9780593461884IMG-ALT Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot By Preeti Chhibber Cover Image
/book/9780063348691IMG-ALT Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books: A Novel By Kirsten Miller Cover Image
/book/9780593653227IMG-ALT We Solve Murders: A Novel By Richard Osman Cover Image
/book/9780063280847IMG-ALT Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II By Elyse Graham Cover Image
/book/9781250325372IMG-ALT A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks By David Gibbins Cover Image
/book/9781635578843IMG-ALT The Great When: A Long London Novel By Alan Moore Cover Image
/book/9780593802472IMG-ALT Passiontide: A Novel By Monique Roffey Cover Image
/book/9780316573290IMG-ALT Madwoman By Chelsea Bieker Cover Image
/book/9781338894134IMG-ALT Ruin Road By Lamar Giles Cover Image
/book/9781250829818IMG-ALT A House With Good Bones By T. Kingfisher Cover Image
/book/9781250289469IMG-ALT A Song to Drown Rivers: Deluxe Edition By Ann Liang Cover Image
/book/9780593723357IMG-ALT Society of Lies: Reese's Book Club: A Novel By Lauren Ling Brown Cover Image
/book/9780063277052IMG-ALT The Mighty Red: A Novel By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
/book/9780593446096IMG-ALT Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout Cover Image
/book/9780593653227Text duplicate IMG-ALT We Solve Murders: A Novel By Richard Osman Cover Image
/book/9781682636121IMG-ALT Compound Fracture By Andrew Joseph White Cover Image
/book/9780374602635Text duplicate IMG-ALT Intermezzo: A Novel By Sally Rooney Cover Image
/book/9780593712948IMG-ALT The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story By Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translated by) Cover Image
/book/9781250822086IMG-ALT Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology #2) By Aiden Thomas Cover Image
/book/9781665959926IMG-ALT Inheritance of Scars By Crystal Seitz Cover Image
/book/9780593616949IMG-ALT Heir (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick) By Sabaa Tahir Cover Image
/book/9780316568142IMG-ALT The Wild Huntress By Emily Lloyd-Jones Cover Image
/book/9781728277554IMG-ALT The Fate of Magic (Witch and Hunter) By Sara Raasch, Beth Revis Cover Image
/book/9781665955119IMG-ALT The Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome) By Catherine Doyle Cover Image
/book/9781250320520IMG-ALT Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil By V. E. Schwab Cover Image
/book/9780593158715IMG-ALT Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story By Taylor Jenkins Reid Cover Image
/book/9781668089330IMG-ALT Never Flinch: A Novel By Stephen King Cover Image
/book/9780593809907IMG-ALT The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2) By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illustrator) Cover Image
/book/9780316582704IMG-ALT The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom #1) By Rachel Gillig Cover Image
/event/august-giveaway-eventAugust Giveaway Event!
/event/other-peoples-kids-rele...Other People's Kids Release Party!
/event/percy-jackson-turning-20Percy Jackson is Turning 20!
/eventTrivial anchor text
more
/tbs-gift-certificatethem available
https://libro.fm/thebooksellerExternal No Text
/indie-bestsellersFull List
/indie-next-listText duplicate Full List
/kids-indie-next-listText duplicate Full List
/contact-usContact us!
/search/advanced_searchText duplicate Advanced Search
http://jerianneillustration.com/External Anchor Banner art by Jerianne Van Dijk.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thebookseller.biz/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The used PHP version is outdated and may be a security risk.
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 (3.99 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 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (48 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateThu, 31 Jul 2025 04:48:40 GMT
serverApache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
x-powered-byPHP/5.6.40
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
cache-controlpublic, max-age=3600
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
etag"1753935209-1"
last-modifiedThu, 31 Jul 2025 04:13:29 GMT
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
strict-transport-securitymax-age=16000000; includeSubDomains; preload;
set-cookie41 Characters
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 16 referring domains.
This page only has 45 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 15 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/wc/robots.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 20
User-agent: bingbot Crawl-delay: 20

# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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KeywordResultRecheck
Books86%Check
Book86%Check
Book Seller77%Check
Seller65%Check
Book Club65%Check
books online64%Check
World63%Check
List47%Check
Coming47%Check
Indie List45%Check
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