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)