Writing.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
88% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
86% 
External factors
51% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.40 s
File size
69.40 kB
Words
575
Media files
13
Number of links
21 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Writing - Writing.Com
The page title is too short. (191 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
Established in 2000, Writing.Com is the online community for writers of all interests and skill levels. Our community breeds creative writing by writers interacting.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (985 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.writing.com/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: 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)
There should not be dynamic parameters 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
robotsFOLLOW,INDEX
descriptionEstablished in 2000, Writing.Com is the online community for writers of all interests and skill levels. Our community breeds creative writing by writers interacting.
companyWriting.Com is the online community for creative writing, fiction writing, story writing, poetry writing, writing contests, writing portfolios, writing help, and writing writers.
keywordsWriting Poetry Writers Poets Creative Writing Poetry Contests Fiction Writing Help Online Creative writing Services Online Creative Writing Portfolios Portfolios for Creative Writing Help With Creative Writing Freelance Writers Online Creative Writer Authors Online Writing Online Creative writes Creative Writers Community How To Write Creative
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
generatorWebflow
langen
og:titleWriting - Writing.Com
og:descriptionWriting.Com is the online community for writers of all interests. Established in 2000, our community breeds Writing, Writers and Poetry through Creative Writing Help, Online Creative Writing Portfolios, Poetry, Writers' Tools and more.
og:imagehttps://www.Writing.Com/images/WDC-OG-Screen.jpg
og:urlhttps://www.Writing.Com/
og:site_nameWriting.Com
og:typeWebsite
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
Content-Languageen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 575 words. That's ok.
46.3% of the text are stop words.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 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
https://www.writing.com/images/wdc-logo.pngWriting at Writing.Com
/images/WDC-Square.jpgCreative Writing on Writing.Com
https://www.writing.com/images/star.pngWriting star
/images/feather2-17-white.svgCreative Writing Quill
/images/feather2-22-white.svgQuill for Creative Writers
/images/typewriter.jpgTypewriter for Writers Writing
/images/getting-started.jpgGet started writing
https://www.writing.com/images/TESTI-1.jpegWriting.Com Testimonial: This is the most supportive writing website, it's a family of writers.
https://www.writing.com/images/TESTI-3.jpegWriting.Com Testimonial: Be inspired to write: prompts, contests, reviews and more.
https://www.writing.com/images/TESTI-2.jpegWriting.Com Testimonial: I now have more confidence.
/images/social-03.svgfacebook logo
/images/social-18.svgX/Twitter
/images/social-11.svgPinterest

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
For Writing!
The H1 heading is too short (12 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 For Writing!
H2 WHY JOIN OUR ONLINE WRITING COMMUNITY?
H2 what is writing.com?
H2 What are members saying?
H2 "I was very quiet...
H2 "Writing.Com is a wonderful site...
H2 "I have to say, from the bottom of my heart...
H3 ALL WRITERS WELCOME
H3 CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT
H3 STORE YOUR WRITING
H3 about us
H3 get started
H4 Empty heading
H5 SITE LINKS
H5 RESOURCES
H5 QUESTIONS?
H5 social
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.writing.com/IMG-ALT Writing at Writing.Com
/main/books/action/view/entry_...Subdomain About Writing.Com
A-TITLE About Writing.Com
/main/signuSIGNUP NOW
A-TITLE Signup and Start Writing
/main/linktous.phpSubdomain Link To Writing.Com
/main/mediakitSubdomain Advertise With Us
/main/view_item/item_id/122945Subdomain Copyright Policy
/main/privacySubdomain Privacy Statement
/main/do_not_sellSubdomain Do Not Sell My Info
/main/agreementSubdomain Terms of Service
/main/archiveSubdomain Site Archive
/main/cancelSubdomain Close An Account
/main/books/item_id/101-Writin...Subdomain Writing.Com 101
/main/faq.phpSubdomain F.A.Q.
/main/list_items/type/genreSubdomain Genre Listing
/main/info/about/copyrights.htmlSubdomain Copyrights
/main/info/about/self_publishi...Subdomain Self Publishing
/main/info/about/writing_class...Subdomain Writing Classes
/main/writing_promptsSubdomain Writing Prompts
/main/newsletters/action/archi...Subdomain Newsletters
/main/forums/item_id/303715-Te...Subdomain support forum
https://www.facebook.com/writi...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/writin...New window External Subdomain Twitter
https://www.pinterest.com/writ...New window External Subdomain Pinterest
https://www.writing.com/Subdomain Writing.Com

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.writing.com/?i=1"
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 slow (1.40 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 does not require any CSS files.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (69 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 26 May 2025 07:17:51 GMT
serverApache
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubdomains;
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
permissions-policymicrophone=(), fullscreen=()
set-cookie162 Characters
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 17 referring domains.
This page only has 33 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 16 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /main/interactive-story/

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow:

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www.writing.com
Writing - Writing.Com
Established in 2000, Writing.Com is the online community for writers of all interests and skill levels. Our community breeds creative writing by writers interacting.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
WRITING85%Check
creative writing70%Check
Writers Writing70%Check
Online Writing69%Check
Writing Community69%Check
Writing Classes61%Check
WRITERS52%Check
CREATIVE52%Check
COMMUNITY50%Check
ONLINE50%Check
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