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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.06 s
File size
86.90 kB
Words
321
Media files
7
Number of links
64 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Jane Friedman | Reporting on the Publishing Industry
The length of the page title is perfect. (475 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Jane Friedman has 25 years of experience in the publishing industry, with expertise in how the digital age is transforming writing careers and storytelling.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (937 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://janefriedman.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
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

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descriptionJane Friedman has 25 years of experience in the publishing industry, with expertise in how the digital age is transforming writing careers and storytelling.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 321 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 12.4 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" 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...08/cropped-JF-website-header-2024-v2.pngJane Friedman
...t/uploads/2023/05/JF-circle-296x300.jpegJane Friedman, photo by Ross Van Pelt
...oads/2025/06/Wiggins-Image-2-600x300.jpgImage: The author’s graphically-designed table representing the story blueprint of his novel The Corpse Bloom, showing forty color-coded blocks that identify the book’s scenes, beats, characters, settings, timeline, and plot structure.
...ers_agents_partners-blogpost-450x300.pngImage: two women's hands engaged in a fist bump
..._choice_connotation-blogpost-450x300.pngImage: five small cylindrical wooden figurative toys with painted faces representing emotions of happiness, surprise, anger, sadness, and neutrality are arranged on a wooden board with confetti strewn around them.
...ey_agent_steal_idea-blogpost-450x300.pngImage: in a darkened space, a hand reaches up from below to snatch a single glowing lightbulb hanging from an electrical wire.
...-media-logo-collage-2024-v2-1000x163.pngJane Friedman has been featured among the following media outlets: The New York Times, BBC, CBS, The Washington Post, The Authors Guild, Wired, The Guardian, and Today.

Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 I report on the book publishing industry and help authors understand the business.
H2 Latest articles
H2 Learn more
H2 Products + Services
H2 Free Resources
H3 The fun newsletter for creative people
H3 The business of publishing newsletter
H3 Next free business class
H3 Find Jane elsewhere
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://janefriedman.com/Anchor Skip to content
A-TITLE Skip to content
https://janefriedman.com/about/About
/resources/Resource List
https://janefriedman.com/login/SUBSCRIBER LOGIN
https://janefriedman.com/IMG-ALT Jane Friedman
https://janefriedman.com/blog/Topics
/key-book-publishing-path/The Key Book Publishing Paths: 2025–2026
/category/traditional-publishing/Traditional Publishing
/category/traditional-publishing/Browse all
/category/traditional-publishi...Queries & Synopses
/category/traditional-publishi...Book Proposals
/category/traditional-publishi...Researching & Evaluating Publishers
/category/traditional-publishi...Small and Independent Publishers
/category/literary-agents/Literary Agents
/category/self-publishing/Self-Publishing
/category/hybrid-publishers/Hybrid Publishing
/category/self-publishing/othe...Other Publishing Paths
/category/working-with-editors/Working with Editors
/category/marketing-promotion/Marketing & Promotion
/category/author-platform/Author Platform
/category/author-platform/Text duplicate Browse all
/category/author-platform/auth...Author Websites
/category/author-platform/emai...Email Newsletters
/category/author-platform/soci...Social Media
/category/creativity/Creativity & Writing Life
/category/writing-advice/Improve Your Writing
/category/writing-advice/Text duplicate Browse all
/category/writing-advice/ficti...Fiction Craft
/category/writing-advice/nonfi...Nonfiction Craft
/category/writing-advice/memoi...Memoir Craft
/category/writing-advice/self-...Self-Editing & Revision
/category/writing-advice/first...First Page Critiques
/category/publishing-industry/Publishing Industry Reporting
/category/ai/AI
/category/legal-issues/Legal Issues
https://janefriedman.com/books/Books
/i-send-a-lot-of-email-newslet...Newsletters
/i-send-a-lot-of-email-newslet...Text duplicate Browse all
https://jane-friedman.kit.com/...External Subdomain Jane’s Electric Speed
/the-bottom-line-janes-publish...Jane’s Bottom Line
/speaking-and-events/Speaking
/online-classes/Online Classes
/online-classes/Paid Classes
/online-classesAnchor Classes taught by Jane
/free-business-classes-for-wri...Free Business Classes
https://jane-friedman.ck.page/...New window External Subdomain Sign up
/the-bottom-line-janes-publish...New window Learn more
/free-business-classes-for-wri...New window Register
/a-novel-blueprint-for-buildin...IMG-ALT Image: The author’s graphically-designed table representing the story blueprint of his novel The Corpse Bloom, showing forty color-coded blocks that identify...
/a-novel-blueprint-for-buildin...A Novel Blueprint for Building Your Book
/what-happens-when-we-treat-ag...IMG-ALT Image: two women's hands engaged in a fist bump
/what-happens-when-we-treat-ag...What Happens When We Treat Agents and Publishers as Genuine Partners
/make-every-word-count-the-pow...IMG-ALT Image: five small cylindrical wooden figurative toys with painted faces representing emotions of happiness, surprise, anger, sadness, and neutrality are arra...
/make-every-word-count-the-pow...The Power of Connotation in Picture Books
/5-reasons-a-literary-agent-is...IMG-ALT Image: in a darkened space, a hand reaches up from below to snatch a single glowing lightbulb hanging from an electrical wire.
/5-reasons-a-literary-agent-is...5 Reasons a Literary Agent Isn’t Going to Steal Your Story, Make Millions, and Cut You Out
https://janefriedman.com/about/About Jane
/speaking-and-events/Text duplicate Speaking
https://janefriedman.com/contact/Contact
/guest-posts/Guest Contributor Guidelines
/online-classes/Text duplicate Online Classes
/the-bottom-line-janes-publish...Jane’s Publishing Newsletter
/electric-speed-sponsorships/Advertising
https://janefriedman.com/blog/Article Archive
/resources/Jane’s Resource List
/free-business-classes-for-wri...Free Business Classes for Writers
http://instagram.com/janefriedmanNew window Nofollow External Jane on Instagram
http://linkedin.com/in/janefri...New window Nofollow External Jane on LinkedIn
http://youtube.com/@janefriedmanNew window Nofollow External Jane on YouTube
https://www.threads.net/@janef...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Threads
http://facebook.com/jane.friedmanNew window Nofollow External Facebook
https://www.amazon.com/stores/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Amazon
https://www.iubenda.com/privac...External Subdomain Privacy policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://janefriedman.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 slow (1.06 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (87 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 445 referring domains.
This page has 113,214 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 285 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /search

#WP Import Export Rule
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wp-import-export-lite/

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Jane Friedman | Reporting on the Publishing Industry
Jane Friedman has 25 years of experience in the publishing industry, with expertise in how the digital age is transforming writing careers and storytelling.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Jane77%Check
Jane Friedman75%Check
Friedman73%Check
Publishing65%Check
Publishing Industry65%Check
Book Publishing53%Check
publishing newsletter53%Check
Publishing Paths51%Check
report50%Check
Writing46%Check
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