Outdoorcanada.ca - SEO Checker

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Meta information
70% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.56 s
File size
173.50 kB
Words
538
Media files
25
Number of links
157 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Outdoor Canada
The page title is too short. (149 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
As Canada's only national fishing and hunting magazine, Outdoor Canada has been in print since 1972 with a mix of how-to articles, buyer's guides, profiles, travelogues, reportage and analysis. In 2015, Outdoor Canada West was launched. Along with promoting conservation and celebrating Canada's heritage sports, Outdoor Canada and Outdoor Canada West encourage anglers and hunters to improve their skills and broaden their knowledge of the outdoors. Included are fishing and hunting hot spots and roundups of the best new gear.
The meta description is too long: 3326 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-ca
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en-ca
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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descriptionAs Canada's only national fishing and hunting magazine, Outdoor Canada has been in print since 1972 with a mix of how-to articles, buyer's guides, profiles, travelogues, reportage and analysis. In 2015, Outdoor Canada West was launched. Along with promoting conservation and celebrating Canada's heritage sports, Outdoor Canada and Outdoor Canada West encourage anglers and hunters to improve their skills and broaden their knowledge of the outdoors. Included are fishing and hunting hot spots and roundups of the best new gear.
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og:titleOutdoor Canada
og:descriptionAs Canada's only national fishing and hunting magazine, Outdoor Canada has been in print since 1972 with a mix of how-to articles, buyer's guides, profiles, travelogues, reportage and analysis. In 2015, Outdoor Canada West was launched. Along with promoting conservation and celebrating Canada's heritage sports, Outdoor Canada and Outdoor Canada West encourage anglers and hunters to improve their skills and broaden their knowledge of the outdoors. Included are fishing and hunting hot spots and roundups of the best new gear.
og:urlhttps://www.outdoorcanada.ca/
og:site_nameOutdoor Canada
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
This page contains 538 words. That's ok.
16.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
20 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
THE LATEST ISSUE
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 THE LATEST ISSUE
H2 Subscribe to Outdoor Canada's Newsletter!
H3 Enter Outdoor Canada’s 15th annual photo contest!
H3 #TRUENORTHNORMA Contest!
H3 Enter The Get Your “Game On” Outdoor Canada Recipe Contest
H3 Alberta Wildlife Federation cautiously optimistic about new fisheries management plan
H3 Saskatchewan’s Cree River belongs on every pike angler’s bucket list—especially if you fly fish. Here’s why
H3 4 key safety factors to remember when walking your hunting dog in the summer heat
H3 Shallow-water lake trout: How to catch the giant lakers most anglers overlook
H3 Recipe: Burbot Boil will spice up your summer with Cajun-inspired flavours
H3 Canadian adventurer Jim Baird shares 9 expert tips for taking a young family on hunting and fishing trips
H3 Moose Jaw Wildlife Federation’s mobile walleye hatchery receives long-overdue facelift
H3 4 hot summer fishing tips from Canadian bass pro Joe Ford
H3 Going on a backcountry hunting adventure? Here’s the gear you need for a successful trip
H3 Five far-out new numbers that tell important stories about hunting and fishing in Canada
H3 Manitoba Wildlife Federation receiving crucial support from member clubs for its Access for All campaign
H3 Think you can’t catch prairie walleye in summer? Think again!
H3 5 must-know tips for a trouble-free portage on your next canoe trip
H3 Want to improve your bowhunting? Practise archery all year long
H3 8 awesome fishing photos from Outdoor Canada readers
H3 To catch big summer walleye, bass, trout or pike, look for these key water temperatures
H3 New Pacific salmon research is encouraging anglers to rethink the way they practise catch-and-release
H3 Follow Outdoor Canada
H3 More
H3 Subscriptions
H3 Advertising
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
18 links don't have an anchor text.
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
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/tips-tactics-fishing/Subdomain Fishing Tips & Tactics
/fly-fishing/Subdomain Fly Fishing
/ice-fishing/Subdomain Ice Fishing
/Times/Subdomain Fishing Times
/fishing/Subdomain All Fishing Posts
/hunting/Subdomain Hunting
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/hunting-tips/Subdomain Hunting Tips
/firearms/Subdomain Firearms
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/waterfowl/Subdomain Waterfowl
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/Times/Subdomain Hunting Times
/hunting/Subdomain All Hunting Posts
/skills/Subdomain Skills
/gear/Subdomain Gear
/atvs/Subdomain ATVs
/boats/Subdomain Boats
/optics/Subdomain Optics
/tackle/Subdomain Tackle
/gear/Subdomain All Gear Posts
/news/Subdomain News
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/recipes/Subdomain Recipes
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/joeford/Subdomain 4 hot summer fishing tips from Canadian bass pro Joe Ford
/author/bobsexton/Subdomain Text duplicate Bob Sexton
/backcountrygear/Subdomain No Text
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/author/markhoffman/Subdomain Mark Hoffman
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/author/outdoorcanada/Subdomain Text duplicate Outdoor Canada
/manitoba-wildlife-federation-...Subdomain No Text
/manitoba-wildlife-federation-...Subdomain Manitoba Wildlife Federation receiving crucial support from member clubs for its Access for All campaign
/author/bobsextoneal/Subdomain Text duplicate Bob Sexton
/summerwalleye/Subdomain IMG-ALT Image Via: Mike Hungle
/summerwalleye/Subdomain Think you can’t catch prairie walleye in summer? Think again!
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/5-must-know-tips-for-a-troubl...Subdomain 5 must-know tips for a trouble-free portage on your next canoe trip
/author/craigmitchell/Subdomain Craig Mitchell
/archerypractice/Subdomain No Text
/archerypractice/Subdomain Want to improve your bowhunting? Practise archery all year long
/author/kevinwilson/Subdomain Kevin Wilson
/trophywallsummer2025/Subdomain No Text
/trophywallsummer2025/Subdomain 8 awesome fishing photos from Outdoor Canada readers
/author/outdoorcanada/Subdomain Text duplicate Outdoor Canada
/to-catch-big-summer-walleye-b...Subdomain No Text
/to-catch-big-summer-walleye-b...Subdomain To catch big summer walleye, bass, trout or pike, look for these key water temperatures
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/new-pacific-salmon-research-i...Subdomain No Text
/new-pacific-salmon-research-i...Subdomain New Pacific salmon research is encouraging anglers to rethink the way they practise catch-and-release
/author/ryanstuart/Subdomain Ryan Stuart
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https://www.instagram.com/outd...New window External Subdomain Follow 7.5k Followers
https://twitter.com/intent/fol...New window External Follow 10.4k Followers
https://www.youtube.com/user/O...New window External Subdomain Subscribe 2.8k Subscribers
https://shop.opmediagroup.ca/c...New window External Subdomain PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
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https://facebook.com/outdoorca...New window Nofollow External No Text
https://twitter.com/outdoorcanadaNew window Nofollow External No Text
https://instagram.com/outdoorc...New window Nofollow External No Text
https://youtube.com/OutdoorCan...New window Nofollow External No Text
/about-us/Subdomain About Us
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/contributor-guidelines/Subdomain Contributor Guidelines
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/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/terms-conditions/Subdomain Terms of Service
/subscribefSubdomain Text duplicate Subscribe
/renewfSubdomain Renew Subscription
/giftfSubdomain Give as a Gift
/subscription-faq/Subdomain Subscription FAQ
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/fly-fishing/Subdomain Text duplicate Fly Fishing
/ice-fishing/Subdomain Text duplicate Ice Fishing
/Times/Subdomain Text duplicate Fishing Times
/fishing/Subdomain Text duplicate All Fishing Posts
/hunting/Subdomain Text duplicate Hunting
/hot-spots-hunting/Subdomain Text duplicate Hunting Hot Spots
/hunting-tips/Subdomain Text duplicate Hunting Tips
/firearms/Subdomain Text duplicate Firearms
/bowhunting/Subdomain Text duplicate Bowhunting
/big-game/Subdomain Text duplicate Big Game
/upland/Subdomain Text duplicate Upland
/waterfowl/Subdomain Text duplicate Waterfowl
/small-game/Subdomain Text duplicate Small Game
/Times/Subdomain Text duplicate Hunting Times
/hunting/Subdomain Text duplicate All Hunting Posts
/skills/Subdomain Text duplicate Skills
/gear/Subdomain Text duplicate Gear
/atvs/Subdomain Text duplicate ATVs
/boats/Subdomain Text duplicate Boats
/optics/Subdomain Text duplicate Optics
/tackle/Subdomain Text duplicate Tackle
/gear/Subdomain Text duplicate All Gear Posts
/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/conservation/Subdomain Text duplicate Conservation
/recipes/Subdomain Text duplicate Recipes
/blogs/Subdomain Text duplicate Blogs
/blue-fish-radio/Subdomain Text duplicate Blue Fish Radio
/canadian-bowhunter/Subdomain Text duplicate Canadian Bowhunter
/field-findings/Subdomain Text duplicate Field Findings
/on-the-water-online/Subdomain Text duplicate On the Water Online
/contests/Subdomain Text duplicate Contests
https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/shopSubdomain Text duplicate Shop
/subscribeSubdomain Text duplicate Subscriptions
/subscribehText duplicate Subscribe
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/accountlogin/Subdomain Text duplicate Account Login
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/tag/sportfishing/Subdomain sportfishing
/tag/fishing/Subdomain fishing
/tag/anglers/Subdomain anglers
/tag/canada/Subdomain canada
/tag/angling/Subdomain angling

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/"
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 of 0.56 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (174 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 46 referring domains.
This page has 722 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 42 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Outdoor Canada
As Canada's only national fishing and hunting magazine, Outdoor Canada has been in print since 1972 with a mix of how-to articles, buyer's guides, profiles, travelogues, reportage and analysis. In 2015, Outdoor Canada West was launched. Along with promoting conservation and celebrating Canada's heritage sports, Outdoor Canada and Outdoor Canada West encourage anglers and hunters to improve their skills and broaden their knowledge of the outdoors. Included are fishing and hunting hot spots and roundups of the best new gear.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Canada81%Check
Outdoor81%Check
Outdoor Canada81%Check
Outdoor Canada West61%Check
Hot56%Check
new56%Check
Hunting Hot Spots55%Check
Fishing54%Check
Hunting54%Check
anglers54%Check
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