Forego Systems, Inc. Search Engine Compatibility Report Card

Enter the website URL that you would like to check. Note that you must enter the complete URL, starting with 'http://', like this: http://www.foregosystems.com. Then click the Check Your Page button. If your Report Card doesn't produce a good grade, perhaps you need to contact us.

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Report Card for http://www.foregosystems.com/


Grade
Key


Excellent!

Pretty Good

Needs Work

Unsatisfactory

Failure
Keyword/Phrase # Of
Instances
conway 8
database-driven 2
e-commerce 1
hosting 1
myrtle beach 18
north myrtle beach 6
search engine optimization 13
search engine optimize 1
south carolina 3
web site design 1
website design 13
SEARCH ENGINE READABLE CONTENT
We recommend that web pages contain between 2,048 - 10,240 characters of text which is readable by search engine spiders.
This document currently contains 4,940 search engine-readable characters.
KEYWORD/PHRASE COUNT
The ideal Keyword/Phrase Count for this specific document is between 10-25.
The page currently contains 11 keywords/phrases.
Please note that - as several factors contribute to identifying the ideal number of keywords/phrases for each specific web page - any changes to this document could have an impact on the recommended number of keywords/phrases.
KEYWORD ACCURACY
100% of your specified keywords/phrases appear in the readable text of the web page.
KEYWORD FREQUENCY
On average, each keyword/phrase appears 6.09 times in this page.
We recommend that the average keyword frequency be at least 2 - and never less than 1.5.
KEYWORD DENSITY
This page has very good keyword density.
PAGE TITLE
Some major search engines will ignore any characters beyond #66, and some search engines will penalize the page if the title is longer than 90 characters.
We recommend that your page TITLE element should contain one or more of the most important keywords from the page and that the title be between 42-66 characters long.
Your page title is 69 characters long and it contains 3 of the page's keywords.
PAGE TITLE RELEVANCE
This test compares the words contained within the page title with the search engine readable text of the page.
DESCRIPTION META TAG
The length of this page's "description" META tag is within the acceptable range of characters.
We recommend that the description tag contents be between 60-255 characters long - never less than 24 characters nor longer than 256 characters. We also recommend that your description contain at least one or more of your keywords/phrases.
Your description tag contains 188 characters.
Your description tag contains 3 of your keywords/phrases.
DESCRIPTION META TAG RELEVANCE
This test compares the words contained within the description with the search engine readable text of the page.
LINK COUNT
This page contains 40 links which can be followed by search engine spiders.
We suggest that most web pages should contain between 15 & 100 links.
TEXT LINKS
We recommend that at least 1/2 of all links on a page should be text-based. It is a good idea to use keywords/phrases within the text of your links.
This page contains 35 text-based links (87.5% of all search engine readable links). Keywords/phrases are used 21 times within this page's text-based links.
OVERALL GRADE
Congratulations! You have done a very good job building this page.

NOTE: Not all criteria above have the same weight when determining a grade. Some are much more important than others. That's why you might have several A's or B's and still get a D or F as a Final Grade.

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This is what most search engine spiders see when they index the content of this web page:


Definitions of terms used in this report

Search Engine Readable Content Text which is able to be read and understood by most major search engines. Since search engine spiders cannot comprehend javascript, flash or text embedded in image files, these types of content are not considered to be "search engine readable". Only HTML text content contained within a web page's <BODY>…</BODY> element counts as being "search engine readable".
Keyword/Phrase Any item listed within the "Content" attribute of a web page's "Keywords" META tag. The list of keywords should be separated by commas. Any text contained between 2 commas is considered a single keyword/phrase. Therefore, if you had the following word list as your keywords: "dogs,black labrador retriever,hound"; your page would be considered to have 3 keywords/phrases - as "black labrador retriever" is considered a single term.
Keyword Accuracy This measurement shows how closely your keywords reflect search engine readable content of the page. The keywords META tag indicates tot he search engines which words and phrases on the document best represent the main focus or theme of the page. If your words appear in your keyword list which are not actually contained within the search engine readable text of the page, then you run the risk of having the search engines determine that the page has no focus - and your ranking will suffer accordingly.
Keyword Spam Over-use of any keyword/phrase within the search engine readable text of a page can result in the page's ranking being depreciated, or even having the page completely dropped formo the search engine indexes.
Keyword Frequency The number of times that a keyword appears within the search engine readbale text of the page is its "frequency". This report indicates the average keyword/phrase frequency for the entire document.
Keyword Density The percentage of the document's search engine readable text which contains keywords/phrases. If a page contains 1,000 words, but only 3 of those words are listed in the keywords tag, then the page has a lower keyword density than if the same 1,000 contained 10 words which were listed in the keywords tag.
Page Title The HTML <TITLE>…</TITLE> element. This element should be located within the document's <HEAD>…</HEAD> element. The title should provide an accurate synopsis of the page's main focus or theme.
META Tag A series of HTML tags contained within the page's <HEAD>…</HEAD> element - these tags provide valuable information to search engines regarding the content and focus of your web page.
Description META Tag A META tag which should provide a brief overview of the web page. Many search engines will display the description tag's contents in their search results.
Robots META Tag A META tag which tells search engine spiders whether or not the page should be included in the search engine's index, and whether or not the links contained within the page should be followed by the search engine spider.
Robots.txt File A file located in the top level directory of the website which tells search engine spiders which sections of the wbesite should be ignored by the search engine's spider.

Please keep in mind that there are many factors which effect a web page's overall search engine ranking. Every search engine has a unique set of ever-changing criteria for determining how a page is ranked against any particular search term. Factors such as: inbound links; internal links; the size of the website; the relevance of your page's content to the search term; the rankings of pages which contain inbound links; and numerous other factors all play a role in determining your page's overall ranking in any particular search engine's index.

This tool provides information regarding some basic search engine compatibility "fundamentals" which have proven successful for Forego Systems and our clients across a broad spectrum of search engine technologies. If you would like to learn more about how Forego Systems can help with your search engine rankings, please contact us.