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Review of cancer.net
Generated on February 10th, 2012 at 13:16:59 GMTThe WooRank is a dynamic grade on a 100 points scale that represents your Internet Marketing Effectiveness at a given time.
The average score is 50.
Top priorities for your website:
Visitors
Traffic Estimations
Medium impact
We use several different tools to estimate web traffic: Google™ Ad Planner, Google™ Trends, and Alexa.
Nevertheless, your analytics will provide the accurate traffic data.
SEO Basics
WWW Resolve
Medium impact
Easy to solve
Be careful. Your website without www doesn't redirect to www (or the opposite). It's duplicate content!
Be sure that www. and are not running in parallel.
Redirecting requests from a non-preferred hostname is important because search engines consider URLs with and without "www" as two different websites.
Once your preferred domain is set, use a 301 redirect for all traffic to your non-preferred domain.
robots.txt
Medium impact
Your website has a robots.txt file, which is great.
A robots.txt file allows you to restrict the access of search engine robots that crawl the web, and it can prevent these robots from accessing specific directories and pages. It also specifies where the XML sitemap file is located.
Click here to check your robots.txt file for syntax errors.
XML Sitemap
Low impact
Your website has an XML sitemap, which is great.
A sitemap lists URLs that are available for crawling and can include additional information like last update, frequency of changes, and importance. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.
Despite sporadic debates regarding this issue, we recommend that you submit an XML sitemap to Google™ Webmasters Tools and to Yahoo Site Explorer.
SEO Content
Title
Medium impact
Doctor-approved cancer information from ASCO | Cancer.Net
Length: 57 character(s)
Your title contains between 10 and 70 characters, which is great.
Make sure your title is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
Be sure that each page has a unique title.
Resource: Use this snippet-optimizer to see how your titles and descriptions will look in Google™ search results.
Description
Medium impact
Easy to solve
Home
Length: 4 character(s)
Meta descriptions allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results.
Ideally, your meta description should contain between 70 and 160 characters.
Ensure that your meta description is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
Also be sure that each page has a unique meta description.
Meta Keywords
cancer, breast cancer, oncology, colon cancer, cervical cancer, bone cancer, research, prostate cancer, psa, testicular cancer, bladder cancer, pancreatic cancer, colposcopy, cancer treatment, carcinoma, ovarian cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, esophagus, lymphoma, cancer center, herceptin, leukemia, melanoma, Hodgkin's, chemotherapy, chemo, brain cancer, dysplasia, lymph node, support group, myeloma, metastatic, metastases, radiation, clinical trial, tumor, biopsy, non-Hodgkin's, mammogram, lump, malignant, malignancy, pain, MRI, tamoxifen, prognosis, neoplasm, cat scan, diagnosis, Adenocarcinoma, AFP, AIDS, alkaline phosphatase, allogenic transplant, alopecia, alternative therapy, anal, analgesic, anaplastic, anemia, anthracycline, antibiotic, antibodies, antiestrogens, antigen, anus, astrocytoma, autologus transplant, B symptom, basal, benign, bilirubin, biological response modifier, biotherapy, blood, bone marrow, BRCA, bronchial, Bronchoscopy, CA-125, cancer news, carcinoembryonic antigen, catheter, CBC, CEA, cell, cervix, cirrhosis, CML, cobalt, colonoscopy, colostomy, complementary therapy, computed tomography, coping strategies, cryosurgery, cure, cyst, cystectomy, cystoscopy, cytology, diarrhea, digital rectal exam, dissection, DNA, Donor, DRE, ductal carcinoma in situ, ducts, endocrine, endometrial, epithelial, esophageal, estrogen, excisional biopsy, exenteration, fibrocystic, fine needle aspiration, gall bladder, gastric, gastrointestinal, gene, gene therapy, genetic, germ-cell, glioma, hair loss, hairy cell, hemoglobin, hepatitis, HER-2, hereditary, histology, HIV, HLA, hormonal therapy, hormone, hospice, hospital, HPV, hysterectomy, immunoglubulin, immunologic, immunotherapy, impotence, in situ, infection, inflammatory, injection, interferon, interleukin, intestine, intravenous, intravesical, invasive, Kaposi's sarcoma, kidney, liver, lobule, lumbar puncture, lumpectomy, lymph, lymphatic, lymphocytes, lymphocytic, mammography, mass, mesothelioma, metastasis, metastasize, metastic, microglobulin, monoclonal antibodies, mouth sores, myelogenous, myeloma, myloid, nausea, neutropenia, neutrophenia, non-small cell, oat cell carcinoma, oncologist, orchiectomy, ostomy, palliative, pancreas, Pap smear, papillary, pathology, PET scan, pheresis, pituitary, placebo, platelet, polyp, polyposis, prevention, proctoscopy, prostate specific antigen, prostrate, rectum, recurrent, refractory, relapse, remission, renal, resection, retinoblastoma, sarcoma, scan, sentinel lymph node, small cell, smoke, spinal tap, spleen, squamous, staging, stereotactic radiotherapy, steroid, stoma, stomach cancer, stromal, survivor, symptom, testicle, therapy, throat, thrombocytopenia, thyroid, tonsils, trachea, transplant, treatment, tumor marker, ulcerative colitis, ultrasound, ureter, urethra, uterine, uterus, vaccine, vesicant, vomiting, Wilms, X-ray
Length: 2899 character(s)
Meta keywords is used to indicate keywords that are supposedly relevant to your website's content. However, because search engine spammers have abused this tag, it provides little to no benefit to your search rankings.
Headings
Low impact
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
- [H2] ASCO Teams Up With Yankees Radio Network
- [H2]
- [H2] Breast Cancer Symposium, September 9-11, San Francisco, CA
- [H2] Progress Against Cancer
- [H2] 2012 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium: Register Now!
Your website is structured using HTML headings/levels (<H1> to <H6>), which is great.
Use your keywords in the headings. Make sure the first level (<H1>) includes your most important keywords.
For greater SEO, only use one <H1> title per page.
Images
Medium impact
We found 26 images on this website.
3 alt attributes are empty or missing.
Most or all of your images have alternative text (the alt attribute), which is good.
Alternative text describes your images so they can appear in Google™ Images search results.
Check the images on your website and make sure effective ALT text is specified for each image.
Click here to find out how to optimize images for search engines.
Restrict the number and size of images to optimize your website's page load times.
Resource: Use the Wayback Machine to review the design of any website in the past.
Text/HTML Ratio
Medium impact
Hard to solve
11.87%
Your website's ratio of text to HTML code is below 15%, which means that your website probably needs more text content.
Improve your SEO by adding more relevant text to your pages and increasing your keyword density.
Inside Pages Analysis
Medium impact
| Title | Description | Text/HTML |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor-approved cancer information from ASCO | Cancer.Net | Home | 11.87%% |
| Survivorship | Cancer.Net | Today, there are about 12 million Americans alive with a history of cancer. Cancer.Net's survivorship section provides helpful information for cancer survivors and their friends and family. Home > Survivorship Published on: 16 Apr 2008 | 14.27%% |
| Coping | Cancer.Net | This section is designed to help people with cancer and their families better cope with cancer. Home > Coping Published on: 19 Feb 2009 | 13.1%% |
No duplicate content has been detected on the pages of your website.
Use Google™ Webmaster Tool to improve the way search engines index your website.
SEO Authority
Indexed Pages
Medium impact
This is the number of pages on your website that are indexed by Google™.
The more pages that search engines index, the better.
A low number (relative to the total number of pages/URLs on your website) probably indicates that your internal link architecture needs improvement and is preventing Search engines from crawling all pages on your website.
Resource: Check here to see if your content has been plagiarized. Then make test with specified keywords in the search engine to analyze your relative position for these keywords.
Popular Pages
This lists the popular pages on your website.
SEO Backlinks
DMOZ
Low impact
Yes
Your website is listed in DMOZ, a multilingual open content directory constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
Make sure its description is up-to-date because search engines take DMOZ into account.
Usability
URL
http://cancer.net
Length: 6 character(s)
Keep your URLs short. If possible, avoid long domain names.
A descriptive URL is better recognized by search engines. A user should be able to look at the address bar and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before reaching it (e.g., http://www.mysite.com/en/products).
Keep in mind that URLs are an important part of a comprehensive SEO strategy.
Use clean URLs to make your site more "crawlable" by Google™.
Resource: Search for a good domain name here. If no good names are available, consider a second hand domain from Sedo.
To prevent brand theft, you might consider trademarking your domain name.
Favicon
Medium impact
Your website has a favicon, which is great. Make sure this favicon is consistent with your brand.
Resource: Check out this amazing idea for improving user experience with a special favicon.
Load Time
High impact
0.26 seconds(s) (0 Kb/s)
Your website is fast. Well done.
Site speed is becoming an important factor for ranking high in Google™ search results
Resource: Check out these other tips to make your website run faster.
Resource: Monitor your server and receive SMS alerts when your website is down with Web Monitoring Services.
Language
Low impact
Easy to solve
Declared: Missing
Detected: en
You have not specified the language of your website. Use the META Language Tag to specify the natural language of your website.
Tips for multilingual websites:
- Define the language of the content in each page's HTML code.
- Specify the language code in the URL as well (e.g., "mywebsite.com/fr/mycontent.html").
- Check out these tips for building a multilingual website.
Microformats
Medium impact
Easy to solve
Missing
Your website does not take advantage of Microformats.
Microformat is a technical semantic markup that can be used to better structure the data submitted to search engines.
Thanks to Microformats, Google™ regularly improves its search results presentation.
Technologies
W3C Validity
Low impact
valid: 29 Errors, 3 warning(s)
W3C is a consortium that sets the web standards.
Run the W3C validation service whenever changes are made to your website's code.
Encoding
Low impact
UTF-8
Language/character encoding is specified, which is great.
Specifying language/character encoding can prevent problems with the rendering of special characters.