Boardgamegeek.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
85% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
12.40 kB
Words
0
Media files
0
Number of links
0 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
BoardGameGeek
The page title is too short. (155 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The definitive source for board game and card game content. Find millions of ratings, reviews, videos, photos, and more from our community of experts.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (933 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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

NameValue
apple-mobile-web-app-titleBGG
theme-color#2e2b47
descriptionThe definitive source for board game and card game content. Find millions of ratings, reviews, videos, photos, and more from our community of experts.
keywordsboard game, boardgames, boardgame, board, games, game, hobby, boardgamegeek, geek, geekdo
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
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twitter:descriptionThe definitive source for board game and card game content. Find millions of ratings, reviews, videos, photos, and more from our community of experts.
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og:titleBoardGameGeek
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionThe definitive source for board game and card game content. Find millions of ratings, reviews, videos, photos, and more from our community of experts.
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 0 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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)
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Baselink: /
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are no external links on this page.
No internal links were found.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://boardgamegeek.com/"
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 (12 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSun, 18 May 2025 05:16:44 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset="UTF-8"
xkeygeekhome landingpage
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
x-frame-optionssameorigin
cross-origin-opener-policysame-origin
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
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age312
accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlmax-age=0, must-revalidate
via1.1 geek-varnish7 (Varnish/7.3), 1.1 google
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,405 referring domains.
This page has 232,203 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,802 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

Sitemap: https://boardgamegeek.com/sitemapindex
User-Agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5

Disallow:
Allow: /
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Disallow: /wiki/diff/
Disallow: /wiki/diffprev/
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Disallow: /wiki/userhistory*
Disallow: /wiki/history
Disallow: /wiki/edit
Disallow: /wiki/editors
Disallow: /wiki/rss
Disallow: /*geeklist/*/item/*
Disallow: /*geeklist*commentid
Disallow: /article
Disallow: /thread/*/article/*
Disallow: /viewarticle
Disallow: /*sk=
Disallow: /*avatar_
Disallow: /user
Disallow: *weblink/*
Disallow: /geekbuddy.php
Disallow: /geekbuddy
Disallow: /geekmail
Disallow: /geekrecommend
Disallow: /geekbay
Disallow: */tag/*
Disallow: /geekaffiliate/*
Disallow: /tag
Disallow: /geektag.php
Disallow: /image*size=*
Disallow: /image/new
Disallow: /images/*/all/
Disallow: /metasell
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Disallow: /fans
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Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /geeksearch.php
Disallow: /file/download
Disallow: /jstextad.php
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Disallow: /forum/search
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Disallow: /graphstats
Disallow: /geekads
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Disallow: /browse/*?username
Disallow: /files/*?username
Disallow: */updatesub
Disallow: *?commentid
Disallow: /comment/quote
Disallow: /comment/reply
Disallow: */editview
Disallow: /geekgold
Disallow: /geekauction
Disallow: /user/*/interests
Disallow: /user/*/geekstuff
Disallow: /profile.php?action=search* 
Disallow: /thread/printerfriendly 
Disallow: /collection
Disallow: /guild/collection
Disallow: /geeklist/favorites
Disallow: /geeklists/bookmarks
Disallow: /geeklist/item/add
Disallow: /geeklist/item/delete
Disallow: /user/*/recommendations
Disallow: /user/*/tags
Disallow: /trade
Disallow: /play
Disallow: /plays
Disallow: /thread*username=*
Disallow: /article*username=*
Disallow: /item/clone
Disallow: /items/*/pending
Disallow: /item/create
Disallow: /item/correction
Disallow: /file/new
Disallow: /microbadge
Disallow: /answers
Disallow: /fans
Disallow: /xmlapi
Disallow: /geekamazon.php
Disallow: /badgeredirect.php
Disallow: /geekadmin.php
Disallow: /*/module
Disallow: /boardgame/*/*/edit
Disallow: /geekcollection.php?action=export*

User-agent: MJ12Bot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: AspiegelBot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: SEMrushBot
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
User-agent: Bytespider
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User-agent: ChatGLM
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
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User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
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User-agent: GPTBot
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User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: imgproxy
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
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User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

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boardgamegeek.com
BoardGameGeek
The definitive source for board game and card game content. Find millions of ratings, reviews, videos, photos, and more from our community of experts.

Most important keywords

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board34%Check
Board Game34%Check
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Card Game23%Check
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