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Visitors

Alexa rank

2,340

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Your Alexa Rank is a good estimate of worldwide traffic to your website, although it is not 100% accurate.

Reviewing the most visited websites by country can give you valuable insights.

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Traffic estimation

200,000 to 1,000,000 visitors/month
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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.

Compete rank

12,232
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Compete Rank estimates traffic from visitors in the USA.

Content

Indexed pages

1,010,000
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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.

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.

In-Site SEO

Home analysis

URL

http://tsn.ca

Length: 3 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™.

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.

Title

TSN Sports News & Headlines | Score Results, Standings | Schedules

Length: 66 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

TSN Sports news, get the latest hockey highlights and score updates; access NHL Hockey, Curling, NFL and NBA standing updates, MLB and Nascar, schedules and sports news highlights.

Length: 180 characters

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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

Missing

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Headings

H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6
1 27 13 0 0 0
  • [H1] Best In ShowChara breaks record; Team Alfie wins All-Star skills battle
  • [H2] Injury Revealed
  • [H2] Dedicated To Sarah
  • [H2] Darren Dreger
  • [H2] Bob McKenzie
  • [H2] Dave Naylor
  • [H2] Jack Armstrong
  • [H2] Alex J. Walling
  • [H2] Scott Cullen
  • [H2] Spotlight on TSN Radio
  • [H2] Spotlight on TSN
  • [H2] Spotlight on TSN2
  • [H2] Shows on THE SPORTS NETWORK
  • [H2] Headlines
  • [H2] Fantasy News
  • [H2] Daily Line
  • [H2] Spread the Word
  • [H2] Australian Open on TSN and TSN.ca
  • [H2] 2012 NHL All-Star Weekend
  • [H2] Hockey Lives Here
  • [H2] Women's Olympic Soccer Qualifying
  • [H2] NBA on THE SPORTS NETWORK
  • [H2] NFL on TSN
  • [H2] Super Bowl XLVI on CTV
  • [H2] Action Sports on TSN and TSN2
  • [H2] Cabbie on TSN.ca
  • [H2] Podcasts
  • [H2] More Podcasts
  • [H3] TSN Radio 990 - Montreal
  • [H3] TSN Radio 1050 - Toronto
  • [H3] TSN Radio 1290 - Winnipeg
  • [H3] Australian Open
  • [H3] Winter X Games 16
  • [H3] NBA on TSN2
  • [H3] The Reporters with Dave Hodge
  • [H3] CHL: Player Rankings
  • [H3] Next on TSN2
  • [H3] More X Games Coverage on Push.ca
  • [H3] TSN 1050 Toronto: Gamenight - Jim Barker
  • [H3] Joffrey Lupul - NHL Media Day
  • [H3] Phil Kessel - NHL Media Day
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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

We found 49 images on this website.

18 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.

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Text/HTML ratio

17.62% (view text)

TSN Sports News & Headlines | Score Results, Standings | Schedules </link></meta></link> TSN Radio Winnipeg Toronto Montreal Listen Live: TSN Radio 1290 Winnipeg Listen Live: TSN Radio 1050 Toronto Listen Live: TSN Radio 990 Montreal &nbsp; NHLNBAMLBCFLNFLCurlingTennisGolf Euro 2012MLSSoccer+NASCARFormula OneIndyCar NASCAR Canadian Tire SeriesNationwideCamping WorldRacing+World JuniorsSpengler CupMen's WHCWomen'S WHCHockey Canada+OlympicsFigure SkatingRugbyMMAFantasyAHLBoxingCanada GamesCHLCIS CyclingLacrosse NCAAPoker SkiingSummer SportsTSN ShowsWinter Sports TSN TalentMore+Daily Line Best In ShowChara breaks record; Team Alfie wins All-Star skills battle Zdeno Chara beat his own record with a 108.8 miles per hour bullet to win the hardest shot competition at the NHL all-star skills competition Saturday night. But Ottawa Senators captain Alfredsson's team won the night by a total score of 21-12 after competitions in five categories between most of the NHL's top players. The skills night is a fixture at the event leading into the all-star game on Sunday afternoon. Full&nbsp;Story.(Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) Video: All-Star Skills Competition Pt. 1Video: All-Star Skills Competition Pt. 2Video: Personality KingsNHL All-Star Skills Competition Photo GalleryInjury Revealed Sidney Crosby's agent has confirmed to TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun on ESPN.com that the Penguins captain was diagnosed with a neck injury in Los Angeles by Dr. Robert S. Bray. Pat Brisson said that a third party will examine the depth of the neck injury, and added that Crosby still hopes to play this season. Full&nbsp;Story. Dedicated To Sarah Calgary's Rosalind Groenewoud dedicated her win on the women's superpipe at the Winter X Games to fellow Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke on Saturday. Groenewoud won the event with a score of 93.66. Maddie Bowman of the U.S was second with 92.00 points, while fellow American Brita Sigourney was third with 90.66. Full&nbsp;Story. &nbsp; Darren Dreger Dreger's Mailbag: Your questions this week on the Red Wings' and Canadiens' trade options and what the Vancouver Canucks may do. More... Got a question for Darren on the latest news and rumours? E-mail our Insider Mailbag. Bob McKenzie Here's a question a lot of teams are asking: Is Brenden Morrow of the Dallas Stars available for trade? There is certainly some talk within the NHL community anticipating that Morrow "may" become available before the NHL trade deadline. More... Dave Naylor Think of the Senior Bowl as the Wild West of the world of professional football. Whether at the stadium or the hotel lobby, scouts, agents, advisors and gurus surround players, pitching advice and asking questions. More... Jack Armstrong After two big road wins for the Raptors, let's discuss the tough break for Andrea Bargnani, the future of Deron Williams in New Jersey, the injury woes of Luol Deng, the firing of Flip Saunders and the team play of the Denver Nuggets. More... Alex J. Walling The St. John's IceCaps sold a thousand season tickets one day after the franchise was announced last June. They have been riding high ever since, and half way through their first season, the product on and off the ice has been a great success. More... Scott Cullen NBA: First quarter awards. More... NHL: Comparing PP ice time to last season. Answers the question, why is Wayne Simmonds so happy? More... MLB: Fielder signs with Tigers. More... MORE COLUMNS...&nbsp;&nbsp;MORE BLOGS...&nbsp;&nbsp; TSN on TWITTER... Spotlight on TSN Radio TSN Radio 990 - Montreal It's the one stop for all things Montreal, with live Canadiens play-by-play coverage, The Habs Report blog, the Impact and more! TSN Radio 1050 - Toronto Listen in on everything you need to know about the Toronto sports scene from the Home of the Hockey Experts, including Jonas Siegel's blog. TSN Radio 1290 - Winnipeg The place to be for Winnipeg sports news, including live play-by-play of the Jets, and The Jets Report blog! Spotlight on TSN Australian Open Catch live action from the men's final between defending champion Novak Djokovic and No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal, tonight at 3am et/Midnight pt. Also available on TSN Mobile TV Spotlight on TSN2 Winter X Games 16 The action continues from the slopes in Aspen, Colorado as the world's best compete for gold, Sunday at 2pm et/11am pt and again at 9pm et/6pm pt. Also available on TSN Mobile TV NBA on TSN2 The Toronto Raptors try to regain the early momentum of their road trip with a stop in New Jersey to play the Nets, Sunday at 6pm et/3pm pt. </p> Shows on THE SPORTS NETWORKThe Reporters with Dave Hodge Dave Hodge and the Reporters debate issues from the sports pages, Sunday at 10am et/7am pt. HeadlinesUFC on FOX 2: Evans, Sonnen earn victories and title shotsNesbitt sets world record in 1,000m sprint in CalgaryNHL, NHLPA are tip-toeing into CBA negotiationsColumbus to host NHL All-Star Game in 2013Djokovic, Nadal meet for Aussie title tonight on TSNTradeCentre: Saturday's rumours from around the NHLTracy close to finalizing one year IndyCar deal with MSRMuch still at stake for Canada in soccer final against U.S.Vonn dominates World Cup downhill in St. MoritzCanada's Guay takes silver at World Cup downhill; Cuche winsWoods stays out of trouble to share lead in Abu DhabiPlushenko smashes career-best score to win Euro titleMore Headlines Fantasy NewsCHL: Player Rankings Emerson Etem, Tyler Toffoli and Zach O'Brien lead the WHL, OHL and QMJHL, respectively. More... Get more at Fantasy News Follow Scott Cullen on Twitter Follow TSN Fantasy on Facebook Daily Line NHL | NFL | NBA | Soccer TSN for iPad | BlackBerry | iPhone Spread the Word Australian Open on TSN and TSN.ca Men's Final (TSN) Djokovic vs. Nadal Tonight at 3am et/Midnight pt Also available on TSN Mobile TV Broadcast Schedule 2012 NHL All-Star Weekend Get live updates and talk hockey with other TSN.ca users during the All-Star Skills Competition and the All-Star Game with TSN.ca's live blog this weekend in Ottawa. Hockey Lives Here Maple Leafs at Penguins (TSN)Tuesday at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt Capitals at Lightning (TSN2)Tuesday at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt Blackhawks at Canucks (TSN)Tuesday at 10pm et/7pm pt Also available on TSN Mobile TV Jets at Flyers (Regional)Tuesday at 6:30pm et/5:30pm ct Sabres at Canadiens (Regional)Tuesday at 7:30pm et/8:30pm at You can also watch Wednesday Night Hockey games live on TSN.ca and talk hockey and get game updates with TSN.ca's Game Night blog every night during nationally telecast games on TSN. NHL on TSN Broadcast ScheduleJets Regional | Canadiens Regional Women's Olympic Soccer Qualifying Canada has clinched an Olympic berth and face the U.S. in the Olympic qualifier final. Group Standings | Draw/Results NBA on THE SPORTS NETWORK Raptors at Nets (TSN2)Sunday at 6pm et/3pm pt Broadcast Schedule NFL on TSN 2012 Pro Bowl (TSN)Sunday at 7pm et/4pm pt Broadcast Schedule Super Bowl XLVI on CTV New England Patriots vs. New York Giants (CTV) Coverage begins Sunday, Feb. 5 at Noon et/9am pt And get live game updates and interact with other TSN.ca users on TSN.ca's Super Bowl blog. You can also catch the game live on TSN Radio in Toronto (1050), Winnipeg (1290) and Montreal (990). Action Sports on TSN and TSN2 Next on TSN2 Sunday at 2pm et/11am pt Also available on TSN Mobile TV Winter X Games Broadcast Schedule More X Games Coverage on Push.ca Winter X Games: Day Two Winter X Games: Bring The Streets Photo Galleries on Push.ca Cabbie on TSN.ca The latest: Cabbie brings Flyers star Claude Giroux props to use at All-Star weekend and finds out if he's got any off-ice game. More... PodcastsTSN 1050 Toronto: Gamenight - Jim BarkerJim Barker stops by and says he is on his way to Mexico to find CFL talentJoffrey Lupul - NHL Media DayJoffrey Lupul meets with media during All-Star weekend in Ottawa.Phil Kessel - NHL Media DayPhil Kessel addresses media during All-Star weekend in Ottawa.More Podcasts CTV DISCOVERY CHANNEL DISCOVERY HD THE COMEDYNETWORK BNN MTV SPACE ANIMAL PLANET THE SPORTS NETWORK Help &amp; Contact Us Site Map Privacy Terms &amp; Conditions RSS Feeds Careers Advertise with TSN.ca &copy; 2012 All rights reserved. Bell Media Television Closing in seconds
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Your website's ratio of text to HTML code is higher than 15%, which is great.

Although your text/code ratio is good, you can always improve it by adding more text content to your pages.

Higher ratios boost SEO by increasing 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

Nice! You have different titles on each pages!

Title Meta description Text/HTML ratio
TSN Video Player Watch videos on TSN Video Player 4.72%
TSN Sports News & Headlines | Score Results, Standings | Schedules TSN Sports news, get the latest hockey highlights and score updates; access NHL Hockey, Curling, NFL and NBA standing updates, MLB and Nascar, schedules and sports news highlights. 17.62%
TSN Radio : Listen Live The most comprehensive site on the internet for Sports from a Canadian perspective. 0.88%
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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.

Website compliance

www resolve

Be careful! Your website without www doesn't redirect to www (or the opposite). It's duplicate content!
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Be sure that http://tsn.ca and http://www.tsn.ca 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

http://www.tsn.ca/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.tsn.ca/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: Missing
  • Detected: Missing
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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:

Doctype

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

Encoding

UTF-8
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Language/character encoding is specified, which is great.

Specifying language/character encoding can prevent 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
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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

0
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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

0
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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 tsn is free. Take it right now!

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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

Missing
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Your website does not provide a feed.

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.

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Website informations

Server

Load time

0.081 second(s) (561.870 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.

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IP

199.246.67.21
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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

ETOBICOKE, ONTARIO, CANADA

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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

Domain name: tsn.ca
Domain status: registered
Creation date: 2000/10/15
Expiry date: 2013/03/17
Updated date: 2010/10/15

Registrar:
Name: Webnames.ca Inc.
Number: 70

Registrant:
Name: The Sports Network Inc.

Administrative contact:
Name: Van Tu Duong
Postal address: 1 carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell, A 7
Verdun QC H3E3B3 Canada
Phone: +1.5148702477x
Fax:
Email: trademarks@bell.ca

Technical contact:
Name: Gene Cook
Postal address: 9 Channel Nine Court
Scarborough ON M1S4B5 Canada
Phone: +1.4163845000x
Fax:
Email: domainreg@bellmedia.ca

Name servers:
ns3.theglobeandmail.com
ns4.theglobeandmail.com

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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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