Homepage SEO Analysis for ABOUT.COM
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Domain Resolution
Your website resolves to the following IP addresses:
Doesn't resolve!
Title
The title of a web page appears in search results as the link to that page.
Your web page's title is:
About.com
Good This web page has a title tag.
Good Your title is 70 characters or less in length.
Meta Description
Search engines often use the meta description of a web page to describe it in search results.
Your web page's meta description is:
About.com is a valuable resource for content that helps people to solve the large and small needs of everyday life.
Good This web page has a meta description.
Warning Best practices say your meta description should be between 150 and 160 characters in length. Yours is 115.
Headings
Headings, such as H1, H2, H3, etc, are important sentences or phrases on a web page that quickly and clearly tells people and search engines what they can expect to find there.
Problem This web page has no H1 heading tag. You should have one.
ABOUT.COM in search results
You can see below how Google and most other search engines will display this site's home page in search results. The title is used as the link to the page, and the meta description usually appears below the title.
About.com
about.com/
About.com is a valuable resource for content that helps people to solve the large and small needs of everyday life.
Sites You Link To
Outbound links tell search engines which websites you find valuable and relevant to your own site, and help your visitors find what they need; even if it's not on your site.
| Site | Number of links |
| www.facebook.com | 4 |
| twitter.com | 4 |
| www.pinterest.com | 4 |
| plus.google.com | 4 |
| tires.about.com | 1 |
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| chemistry.about.com | 1 |
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| collegeapps.about.com | 1 |
| esl.about.com | 1 |
| french.about.com | 1 |
| geography.about.com | 1 |
| german.about.com | 1 |
| grammar.about.com | 1 |
| homeworktips.about.com | 1 |
| italian.about.com | 1 |
| japanese.about.com | 1 |
| math.about.com | 1 |
| militaryhistory.about.com | 1 |
| psychology.about.com | 1 |
| quotations.about.com | 1 |
| spanish.about.com | 1 |
| womenshistory.about.com | 1 |
| 3d.about.com | 1 |
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| ipod.about.com | 1 |
| portables.about.com | 1 |
| adolescentes.about.com | 1 |
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| inmigracion.about.com | 1 |
| motivacion.about.com | 1 |
| motos.about.com | 1 |
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| vegetarian.about.com | 1 |
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| cancer.about.com | 1 |
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| dermatology.about.com | 1 |
| exercise.about.com | 1 |
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| nutrition.about.com | 1 |
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| running.about.com | 1 |
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| stress.about.com | 1 |
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| walking.about.com | 1 |
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| boardgames.about.com | 1 |
| coins.about.com | 1 |
| contests.about.com | 1 |
| crochet.about.com | 1 |
| freebies.about.com | 1 |
| guitar.about.com | 1 |
| painting.about.com | 1 |
| puzzles.about.com | 1 |
| architecture.about.com | 1 |
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| gardening.about.com | 1 |
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| homerepair.about.com | 1 |
| landscaping.about.com | 1 |
| quilting.about.com | 1 |
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Image Descriptions
Image descriptions, also called "alt text", are the best way to describe images to search engines and to visitors using screen readers.
Good All of your images have descriptions.
Robots
Your website's robots.txt file can tell search engines to ignore parts of your site.
| Bot Name | Description | Result |
| googlebot | Crawler for the Google.com search engine. | Allowed |
| bingbot | Crawler for the Bing.com and Yahoo.com search engines. | Allowed |
| baiduspider | Crawler for Baidu.com, the leading Chinese search engine. | Allowed |
| yandex | Crawler for Yandex.com, the leading search engine in Russia. | Allowed |
| yandexbot | Crawler for Yandex.com, the leading search engine in Russia. | Allowed |
| sosospider | Crawler for Soso.com, a major Chinese search engine. | Allowed |
| exabot | Crawler for ExaLead, a major search engine in France. | Allowed |
| sogou spider | Crawler for Sogou.com, a major search engine in China. | Allowed |
Canonical Url
This website can live at www.about.com or about.com. It's best for your site's visibility to live at just one URL, or web address. You'll want to create a 301 redirect to the URL you choose from the other URL.
Good Your canonical URL is www.about.com.