Whiskynotes.be - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.09 s
File size
105.90 kB
Words
748
Media files
10
Number of links
89 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
WhiskyNotes: whisky blog, cognac, rum and whiskey reviews
The length of the page title is perfect. (547 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
WhiskyNotes is a whisky blog with 5000+ tasting notes, reviews and news about Scotch single malt whisky, rum, cognac and world whiskey (since 2008)
The length of the meta description is perfect. (938 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.whiskynotes.be/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://www.whiskynotes.be/page/2/
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
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)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 748 words. That's ok.
15.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 18.29 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
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data:[...] Base64Hogshead: Aultmore, Glentauchers, Speyside…
data:[...] Base64LMK Copycat: Ben Nevis, Secret Irish, Secret Speyside
data:[...] Base64The Whisky Agency: 4x Port casks
data:[...] Base64Maltbarn: Balblair, Teaninich, Dalmunach, Linkwood

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Pineau des Charentes (Malternative Belgium / C Dully)
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Pineau des Charentes (Malternative Belgium / C Dully)
H1 Tomatin 1976 (The Whisky Agency)
H1 Highland Park Heather
H1 Rosebank 1991 / Port Ellen 1980 (G&M CC Heritage)
H1 Turntable Unplugged
H1 Buds & Barrels, Double-V, Klubb23, Crann, The Green Door
H1 Hogshead: Aultmore, Glentauchers, Speyside…
H1 LMK Copycat: Ben Nevis, Secret Irish, Secret Speyside
H1 The Whisky Agency: 4x Port casks
H1 Maltbarn: Balblair, Teaninich, Dalmunach, Linkwood
H2 WhiskyNotes
H2 Exceptional scores
H2 Highlighted articles
H2 Weekly newsletter
H3 Posts navigation
H3 WhiskyNotes is one of the early whisky blogs, established in 2008.
H5 Main navigation
H5 Secondary navigation
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 4 external links on this page.
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https://www.whiskynotes.be/Anchor Skip to content
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/category/lagavulin/Lagavulin
/category/laphroaig/Laphroaig
/category/port-ellen/Port Ellen
/category/springbank/Springbank
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/category/irish-whiskey/* Ireland
/category/japan-whisky/* Japan
/category/usa-bourbon/* USA
/category/undisclosed/* Undisclosed
/category/world/* World
/top-10/All-time favourites
https://www.whiskynotes.be/links/Links
/about-whiskynotes/About WhiskyNotes
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/category/tomatin/Tomatin
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/2026/tomatin/tomatin-1976-whi...Text duplicate Tomatin 1976 (The Whisky Agency)
/2026/highland-park/highland-p...IMG-ALT Highland Park Heather
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/category/highland-park/Text duplicate Highland Park
A-TITLE Highland Park whisky reviews
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/category/port-ellen/Text duplicate Port Ellen
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/category/rosebank/Rosebank
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/2026/blends/turntable-unplugged/IMG-ALT Turntable Unplugged
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/category/blends/Text duplicate * Blends
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/2026/blends/turntable-unplugged/Text duplicate Turntable Unplugged
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/category/inchgower/Inchgower
A-TITLE Inchgower whisky reviews
/category/laphroaig/Text duplicate Laphroaig
A-TITLE Laphroaig whisky reviews
/category/loch-lomond/Loch Lomond
A-TITLE Loch Lomond whisky reviews
/2026/laphroaig/buds-barrels-d...Text duplicate Buds & Barrels, Double-V, Klubb23, Crann, The Green Door
/2026/speyside/hogshead-aultmo...IMG-ALT Hogshead: Aultmore, Glentauchers, Speyside…
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/category/undisclosed/Text duplicate * Undisclosed
A-TITLE * Undisclosed whisky reviews
/category/aultmore/Aultmore
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/category/glentauchers/Glentauchers
A-TITLE Glentauchers whisky reviews
/category/speyside/Speyside
A-TITLE Speyside whisky reviews
/2026/speyside/hogshead-aultmo...Text duplicate Hogshead: Aultmore, Glentauchers, Speyside…
/2026/ben-nevis/lmk-copycat-be...IMG-ALT LMK Copycat: Ben Nevis, Secret Irish, Secret Speyside
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/category/irish-whiskey/Text duplicate * Ireland
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/category/undisclosed/Text duplicate * Undisclosed
A-TITLE * Undisclosed whisky reviews
/category/ben-nevis/Ben Nevis
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/2026/benriach/the-whisky-agen...IMG-ALT The Whisky Agency: 4x Port casks
A-TITLE The Whisky Agency: 4x Port casks
/category/benriach/Text duplicate BenRiach
A-TITLE BenRiach whisky reviews
/category/glen-garioch/Glen Garioch
A-TITLE Glen Garioch whisky reviews
/category/jura/Jura
A-TITLE Jura whisky reviews
/category/tullibardine/Tullibardine
A-TITLE Tullibardine whisky reviews
/2026/benriach/the-whisky-agen...Text duplicate The Whisky Agency: 4x Port casks
/2026/teaninich/maltbarn-balbl...IMG-ALT Maltbarn: Balblair, Teaninich, Dalmunach, Linkwood
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/category/balblair/Balblair
A-TITLE Balblair whisky reviews
/category/linkwood/Linkwood
A-TITLE Linkwood whisky reviews
/category/teaninich/Teaninich
A-TITLE Teaninich whisky reviews
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/page/3/3
/page/550/550
/page/2/Next
/2023/talisker/talisker-45-yea...Talisker 45 Years ‘Glacial Edge’
/2023/glen-grant/glen-grant-19...Glen Grant 1959 ‘Mr George Legacy’
/2021/glen-grant/glen-grant-19...Glen Grant 1962 (G&M)
/2023/port-ellen/port-ellen-19...Port Ellen 1981 ‘Recollection’ (G&M)
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/2025/whisky-news/best-wishes-...Best wishes & Best whiskies of 2024
/2024/whisky-news/diageo-speci...Diageo Special Releases 2024
/2017/whisky-news/sherry-casks...Sherry casks in the whisky industry
/2022/whisky-news/buying-whisk...Buying whisky in the UK (duties and import tax)
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https://www.whiskynotes.be/Home
/top-10/Favourite, oldest and most expensive whisky
https://www.whiskynotes.be/links/Whisky links: blogs and shops
/whisky-reviews-by-distillery/Whisky reviews by distillery
/about-whiskynotes/Text duplicate About WhiskyNotes
https://www.facebook.com/Whisk...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/WhiskyNotesNew window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/whis...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.whiskynotes.be/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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)
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.09 seconds.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (106 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 43 referring domains.
This page has 840 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 37 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Disallow: /search
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Disallow: /download
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments/feed
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User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /wp-admin/

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www.whiskynotes.be
WhiskyNotes: whisky blog, cognac, rum and whiskey reviews
WhiskyNotes is a whisky blog with 5000+ tasting notes, reviews and news about Scotch single malt whisky, rum, cognac and world whiskey (since 2008)

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
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WhiskyNotes84%Check
Malt Whisky75%Check
whisky reviews74%Check
Whisky Blog73%Check
Whisky news67%Check
Whisky Agency66%Check
Blended Whisky63%Check
reviews61%Check
Malt61%Check

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