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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
71% 
Link structure
58% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.24 s
File size
53.50 kB
Words
259
Media files
13
Number of links
62 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Writers Online - Helping you become a better writer
The length of the page title is perfect. (458 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The home of aspiring writers with encouragement, advice, ideas and inspiration
The length of the meta description is perfect. (486 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.writers-online.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Server location: Canada
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 259 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.1% of the text are stop words.
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 19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 tags for this page.
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)
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
...e-logov1.png?format=webp&webp.quality=50Writers Online Logo
...p&format=webp&webp.quality=40&scale=bothNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Creative writing competition: The Oxford Poetry Prize 2025
H2 Creative writing: How to write a high-concept thriller
H2 Open Short Story
H5 Latest News
H5 Creative writing competition: The Oxford Poetry Prize 2025 Duplicate text
H5 Poetry competition: The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025
H5 Creative writing competition: 2025 BCSA Writing Competition
H5 Creative writing competition: Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2025
H5 Writing Advice
H5 Creative writing: How to write a high-concept thriller Duplicate text
H5 Writing life: Writing with a chronic illness
H5 How to structure your story
H5 How to create the setting in a story
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.
11 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.facebook.com/Writi...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/WritingMag...New window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/W...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/writ...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.writers-online.co.uk/IMG-ALT Writers Online Logo
https://www.writers-online.co.uk/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Writers Online Logo
/searchA-TITLE Search
/checkout/No Text
/account/login/?ref=/No Text
/account/login/?ref=/Login / Register
/checkout/No Text
https://www.writers-online.co.uk/No Text
/newsNews
/writing-competitionsWriting Competitions
/how-to-write/start-writingStart Writing
/how-to-writeWriting Advice
/how-to-write/get-publishedGet Published
/how-to-write/get-publishedNew window Text duplicate Get Published
/how-to-write/self-publishingSelf Publish
/learnLearn
/webinarsWebinars
/writing-coursesCourses
/storeShop
/store/downloads/writing-magaz...Downloads
/store/back-issues/writing-mag...Buy the Magazine
/store/membership-subscriptionsMembership
/store/subscriptions/writing-m...Subscriptions
/store/renewals/writing-magazineRenewals
/store/renewals/writers-online...Writers Online Membership Renewals
/store/reader-offers/writing-m...Reader Offers
/membershipText duplicate Membership
https://rss.com/podcasts/write...New window External Write Club Podcast
/account/login/?ref=/Text duplicate Login / Register
/checkout/No Text
/information/e-newsletter-sign-upSubdomain Sign up now
/news/creative-writing-competi...News Creative writing competition: The Oxford Poetry Prize 2025 16 May 2025
/how-to-write/creative-writing...How To Write Creative writing: How to write a high-concept thriller 16 May 2025
IMG-ALT How to write a high concept thriller
/writing-competitions/open-sho...Open Competition Open Short Story Competition closes: 15 June 2025
/news/creative-writing-competi...No Text
/news/creative-writing-competi...Creative writing competition: The Oxford Poetry Prize 2025
/news/poetry-competition-the-f...No Text
/news/poetry-competition-the-f...Poetry competition: The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025
/news/creative-writing-competi...No Text
/news/creative-writing-competi...Creative writing competition: 2025 BCSA Writing Competition
/news/creative-writing-competi...No Text
/news/creative-writing-competi...Creative writing competition: Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2025
/how-to-write/creative-writing...IMG-ALT How to write a high concept thriller
/how-to-write/creative-writing...Creative writing: How to write a high-concept thriller
/how-to-write/writing-life-wri...No Text
/how-to-write/writing-life-wri...Writing life: Writing with a chronic illness
/how-to-write/how-to-structure...No Text
/how-to-write/how-to-structure...How to structure your story
/how-to-write/create-setting/No Text
/how-to-write/create-setting/How to create the setting in a story
/newsText duplicate News
/how-to-writeHow To Write
/writing-competitionsText duplicate Writing Competitions
/writing-coursesWriting Courses
/webinarsText duplicate Webinars
/storeStore
/dealersDealers
/writers-groupsWriters Groups
https://www.writers-online.co.uk/Privacy
http://www.warnersgroup.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
http://www.warnersgroup.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain Cookie Policy
https://www.writers-online.co.uk/Terms
http://www.warnersgroup.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain Terms & Conditions
http://www.warnersgroup.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain Terms of Sale
http://www.warnersgroup.co.uk/...New window External Subdomain Competition Terms
https://www.warnersgroup.co.uk...New window External Subdomain Contributor Terms
https://www.warnersgroup.co.uk...New window External Subdomain Complaints Procedure
https://www.warnersgroup.co.uk...New window External Subdomain Subscriptions FAQ
/contactContact Us
/information/promote-your-busi...Promote Your Business
https://www.writers-online.co.uk/Settings
http://www.warnersgroup.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Warners Group Publications Plc

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.writers-online.co.uk/"
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 0.24 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (54 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 107 referring domains.
This page has 990 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 102 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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www.writers-online.co.uk
Writers Online - Helping you become a better writer
The home of aspiring writers with encouragement, advice, ideas and inspiration

Most important keywords

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

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Write83%Check
Writers73%Check
Writers Online67%Check
Advice50%Check
thriller46%Check
Story44%Check
Poetry44%Check
Short44%Check
Short Story44%Check
Oxford44%Check
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