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Generated on February 4th, 2012 at 21:07:29 GMT

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Visitors

Traffic estimation

200,000 to 1,000,000 visitors/month
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Nevertheless, your analytics will provide the accurate traffic data.

Alexa rank

1,432

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Compete rank

1,997
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Content

Indexed pages

0
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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.

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In-Site SEO

Home analysis

URL

http://computing.net

Length: 9 characters

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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™.

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To prevent brand theft, you might consider trademarking your domain name.

Title

Computer Tech Support Forum - Windows - Linux - Mac - Computing.Net

Length: 67 characters

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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&trade search results.

Meta description

Computing.Net is one of the biggest and oldest technical support web sites. It can help almost anyone obtain technical support for their computing needs.

Length: 153 characters

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Meta descriptions allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results.

Your meta description contains between 70 and 160 characters, which is great.

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

Technical, Support, Computer, Forums, How Tos, problem, operating, system

Length: 73 characters

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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

H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6
0 0 0 0 0 0
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Your website does not use HTML headings (<H1> to <H6>) or it has far too many HTML headings.

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

We found 18 images on this website.

17 alt attributes are empty or missing!

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Alternative text (the alt attribute) is missing for several images. Add alternative text so that search engines can better understand the content of your images.

Remember that search engine crawlers cannot actually "see" images. The alternative text attribute allows you to assign a specific description to each image.

Alternative text describes your images so they can appear in Google&trade 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

8.08% (view text)

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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.

Frames

No
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There are no frames used on your homepage, which is great.

Frames can cause problems for search engines because they don't correspond to the conceptual model of the web. Avoid frames whenever possible.

Flash

No
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No Flash content has been detected on your homepage, which is good.

Flash should only be used for specific enhancements. Avoid full Flash websites to maximize SEO.

Although Flash content often looks nicer, it cannot be indexed by search engines (however this may change in the near future).

This advice also applies to AJAX (however this may also change in the near future).

Inside analysis

Inside pages analysis

Missing
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Website compliance

www resolve

Perfect! Your website with or without www redirects to the same page!
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Your website directs http://computing.net and http://www.computing.net to the same URL, which is great.

Redirecting requests from a non-preferred hostname is important because search engines consider URLs with and without "www" as two different websites.

robots.txt

http://www.computing.net/robots.txt
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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 Sitemaps

  • http://www.computing.net/pushad/sitemap.xml
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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.

Language

  • Declared: en
  • Detected: en
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You have specified the language of your website, which is great.

Make sure your declared language is the same as the language detected by Google™.

    Tips for multilingual websites:

    Doctype

    XHTML 1.0 Transitional
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    Declaring a doctype helps web browsers to render content correctly.

    Encoding

    No
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    Language/character encoding is not specified, which may result in problems with the rendering of special characters.

    Google Analytics

    Yes
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    Your website is monitored by Google™ Analytics.

    Be sure to leverage its full potential.

    W3C validity

    Invalid (417 errors, 44 warnings)
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    Use valid markup that contains no errors. Syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index.

    To fix the detected errors, run the W3C validation service.

    W3C is a consortium that sets the web standards.

    Microformats

    Missing
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    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.

    Dublin Core

    Missing
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    Your website does not take advantage of Dublin Core.

    Dublin Core is a set of standard metadata elements used to describe the contents of a website.

    Geo Meta Tags

    Missing
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    Your website is not geotagged.

    Although Google™ ignores Geo-Meta Tags, the search engine Bing takes them into account.

    Off-Site SEO

    Popularity

    Google last crawl date

    Unknown
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    Google™ periodically crawls websites looking for new and updated content. In general, you want Google™ to crawl your site as often as possible so your new content shows up in search results.

    Click here to ensure your website's content and links have been indexed by Google™.

    If Google's™ cache of your website lacks text or links, there's probably a programming problem.

    Directories

    DMOZ

    Yes
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    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.

    Yahoo! Directory

    Yes
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    The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory which rivals DMOZ.

    It offers two options for suggesting websites for possible listing: "Standard" (which is free) and a paid submission process that offers expedited review.

    Social Media

    Delicious links

    464
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    Delicious is a popular social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering websites.

    Monitoring Delicious is a great way to see what's hot on your website.

    Resource: Monitor your brand in social media using tools like Addictomatic.

    Digg entries

    24
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    Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content.

    Monitoring Digg is a great way to see what's hot on your website.

    Resource: Monitor your brand in social media using tools like Addictomatic.

    Twitter recent backlinks

    0
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    Click here to browse the most recent tweets related to your website.

    Monitoring recent tweets tells you what people are saying about your website in real-time.

    Resource: Monitor your brand in Twitter using tools like Topsy.

    Twitter account check

    Twitter username computing is already taken. Is it yours?

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    Twitter is a fast-growing social network.

    If possible, register a Twitter account in your brand's name now to prevent identity theft.

    You should also check the availability of your brand name in other social networks.

    Feeds

    • /recent_posts.rss
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    Your website provides a feed, which is good.

    Feeds are especially important for blogs and news websites. Subscribers are notified of content updates, which improves your website's visibility.

    Resource: Did you know that FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters and other web-based content publishers?

    Usability

    Readability level

    Teenager
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    This measures the approximate level of education necessary to understand content on your website.

    A website targeting a large audience should be easy to read for a teenager.

    Resource: To further improve the readability of your website, consider these 10 principles for web typography.

    Favicon

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    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.

    Website informations

    Server

    Load time

    0.234 second(s) (0.006 s/Kb)
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    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.

    IP

    69.167.142.128
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    Your server's IP address has no impact on your SEO.

    Use Robtex and DNSstuff for comprehensive reports on your domain name server.

    Location

    Lansing, Michigan, United States

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    To improve your website's responsiveness, locate your servers close to your main markets.

    Click here to test your website speed. Everything is OK if the average time over 10 pings is less than 300ms.

    gzip

    Yes
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    Your website takes advantage of gzip, which is good.

    gzip is an easy way to improve your website's speed.

    Other facts

    Safe browsing

    Yes
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    Your website is safe.

    No evidence of phishing and/or malware has been detected.

    Domain

    Whois

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    # GANDI Registrar whois database for .COM, .NET, .ORG., .INFO, .BIZ, .NAME
    #
    # Access and use restricted pursuant to French law on personal data.
    # Copy of whole or part of the data without permission from GANDI
    # is strictly forbidden.
    # The sole owner of a domain is the entity described in the relevant
    # 'domain:' record.
    # Domain ownership disputes should be settled using ICANN's Uniform Dispute
    # Resolution Policy: http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm
    # For inquiries about 'by policy' protection, please check directly
    # with the appropriate registry (Eurid, AFNIC)
    #
    # Acces et utilisation soumis a la legislation francaise sur
    # les donnees personnelles.
    # Copie de tout ou partie de la base interdite sans autorisation de GANDI.
    # Le possesseur d'un domaine est l'entite decrite dans
    # l'enregistrement 'domain:' correspondant.
    # Un desaccord sur la possession d'un nom de domaine peut etre resolu
    # en suivant la Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy de l'ICANN:
    # http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm
    # Pour obtenir les informations en status 'Protected by policy', contactez
    # directement le registre concerne (Eurid, AFNIC)
    #
    # 2011-04-14 15:16:55 CEST

    domain: computing.net
    reg_created: 1996-03-05 05:00:00
    expires: 2017-03-06 05:00:00
    created: 2008-08-11 22:01:38
    changed: 2010-05-05 16:06:43
    transfer-prohibited: yes
    ns0: ns.liquidweb.com
    ns1: ns1.liquidweb.com
    owner-c:
    nic-hdl: CL3254-GANDI
    owner-name: 'Computing.Net, LLC'
    organisation: 'Computing.Net, LLC'
    person: 'LLC Computing.Net,'
    address: '10559 Jefferson Blvd., Suite A'
    zipcode: 90232
    city: Culver City
    country: United States of America
    phone: +1.3102795500
    fax: ''
    email: 118e59320a1d398f62f1dcc181a7e665-855107@contact.gandi.net
    lastupdated: 2010-06-11 15:15:51
    admin-c:
    nic-hdl: AV1823-GANDI
    organisation: Best Of Media
    person: Alfred VERICEL
    address: 19/21 rue Emile Duclaux
    zipcode: 92150
    city: SURESNES
    country: France
    phone: +33.141381693
    fax: ''
    email: a29c45732c36775cfd880a113f3f92b1-971026@contact.gandi.net
    lastupdated: 2010-01-19 12:11:43
    tech-c:
    nic-hdl: AV1823-GANDI
    organisation: Best Of Media
    person: Alfred VERICEL
    address: 19/21 rue Emile Duclaux
    zipcode: 92150
    city: SURESNES
    country: France
    phone: +33.141381693
    fax: ''
    email: a29c45732c36775cfd880a113f3f92b1-971026@contact.gandi.net
    lastupdated: 2010-01-19 12:11:43
    bill-c:
    nic-hdl: AV1823-GANDI
    organisation: Best Of Media
    person: Alfred VERICEL
    address: 19/21 rue Emile Duclaux
    zipcode: 92150
    city: SURESNES
    country: France
    phone: +33.141381693
    fax: ''
    email: a29c45732c36775cfd880a113f3f92b1-971026@contact.gandi.net
    lastupdated: 2010-01-19 12:11:43

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    Old domains are ranked higher by search engines and yield better SEO results.

    Google™ temporarily reduces the page rank of new domains, placing them into a "sandbox".

    Using a domain that has been registered for many years can mitigate this effect.

    Consider these Whois tips to further improve your SEO.

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