Historical signals (note only) (16 rules)

This check area summarizes observable signals from your website. The report names each rule and describes the expected result. Operators can discuss the findings with their technical team. The check reports concrete findings and does not promise outcomes it does not measure. A manual expert review can supplement the information where needed.

Rules of the area Historical signals (note only) with ID, finding description, target state, severity and estimated fix effort per finding group
IDFinding when …Target stateSeverityFix
HIST-01Historical: meta keywordsHistorical: meta keywordsNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-02Historical: keyword densityHistorical: main term above 3 % of wordsNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-03Historical: keyword domainHistorical: keyword domain with several hyphensNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-05Historical: outdated meta tagsHistorical: meta revisit-after, distribution, ratingNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-06Historical: rel=prev/nextHistorical: rel=prev/next (Google ignores, Bing uses)Noteapprox. 15 min
HIST-07Historical: HTML sitemapHistorical: HTML sitemapNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-08Historical: sitemap priority/changefreqHistorical: sitemap priority/changefreqNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-09Historical: AMPHistorical: AMP versionNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-10Historical: noodp/noydirHistorical: noodp/noydirNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-11Historical: noarchiveHistorical: noarchive (Google cache discontinued)Noteapprox. 15 min
HIST-12Historical: Flash, applets, framesetsHistorical: Flash, applets, framesetsNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-13Historical: PageRank sculptingHistorical: nofollow for PageRank steeringNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-14Historical: footer links to foreign domainsHistorical: footer links to foreign domains on every pageNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-15Historical: text-to-HTML ratioHistorical: text-to-HTML ratioNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-16Historical: tag archives indexableHistorical: indexable tag archivesNoteapprox. 15 min
HIST-17Historical: Crawl-delayHistorical: Crawl-delay in robots.txt (Google ignores, Bing honors)Noteapprox. 15 min

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