June 24th 2016

SEO Fundamentals test expansion

The SEO fundamentals test has expanded to cover even more checkpoints!
  • Missing title – pages must have a title defined
  • Duplicate title – pages must have unique titles
  • Missing meta description – pages must have a meta description
  • Duplicate meta description – pages must have unique meta descriptions
  • Long meta description – pages with a meta description that is too long (over 155 characters)
  • Empty headings – headings (H1, H2 etc) that contain no text, including alternative text
  • Missing alternative text – images with no alternative text
  • Weak alternative text – images with alternative text that is not descriptive or useful
  • Captions – sufficiently large images should consider having captions
  • Empty anchor text – links should always contain some text, e.g. alternative text
  • Generic anchor text – links should avoid using generic anchor text, e.g. “Read more”, or specify a unique title attribute where this is necessary
  • Long anchor text – links should not contain overly long anchor text (over 60 characters)

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