This tab shows search engine guideline violations, and pages that don't follow search optimization best practices.
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| Status | Summary | | |
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 | Google Search Guidelines - Some pages violate these guidelines. | | |
 | Bing Search Guidelines - Some pages violate these guidelines. | | |
 | Yahoo Search Guidelines - Some pages violate these guidelines. | | |
 | Robots.txt Guidelines - No issues found.
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 | Search Best Practices - No issues found.
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| Priority | URL / Description | | Line |
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Priority 1 Issues |
 | Offer an HTML site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. Links embedded in menus, list boxes, and similar elements are not accessible to web crawlers unless they appear in your site map. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages. | Google Bing | |
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| http://bowlandfab.com/ | | 1 |
 | This page has more than one H1 element, which violates Bing webmaster guidelines. | Bing | |
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Leave the title of the main content as H1 and change other H1 elements to a lower heading level. | | |
| http://bowlandfab.com/ | | 12 65 75 |
| http://bowlandfab.com/bespoke.html | | 12 33 57 |
| http://bowlandfab.com/estate-railings.html | | 12 33 51 |
| http://bowlandfab.com/gates.html | | 12 33 58 |
| This issue was found on another 2 pages.
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Priority 2 Issues |
 | Title element is too long for Bing. Bing recommends using titles up to 65 characters long. | Bing | |
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The major search engines all have different limits for title length, and these limits have
changed over time. Avoid title lengths close to the limits to prevent problems when the limits
change again, and note that the W3C recommends a maximum length of 64 characters. | | |
| The title is 79 characters long. http://bowlandfab.com/bespoke.html | | 4 |
 | Title element is too long for Yahoo. Yahoo recommends limiting your page title to 67 characters. | Yahoo | |
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The major search engines all have different limits for title length, and these limits have
changed over time. Avoid title lengths close to the limits to prevent problems when the limits
change again, and note that the W3C recommends a maximum length of 64 characters. | | |
| The title is 79 characters long. http://bowlandfab.com/bespoke.html | | 4 |
Priority 3 Issues |
 | Meta description tag is too long for Bing. Bing recommends keeping the description text under 160 characters in length. | Bing | |
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The major search engines all have different limits for meta description length, and these limits have
changed over time. Avoid descriptions close to the limits to avoid problems when the limits change again. | | |
| The description is
212
characters long. http://bowlandfab.com/ | | 5 |
| The description is
176
characters long. http://bowlandfab.com/bespoke.html | | 5 |
| 5 issues on 6 pages |