Homepage SEO Analysis for WEBSTER.EDU

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Domain Resolution

Your website resolves to the following IP addresses:

Title

The title of a web page appears in search results as the link to that page.
Your web page's title is:
St. Louis | Webster University
Good This web page has a title tag.
Good Your title is 70 characters or less in length.

Meta Description

Search engines often use the meta description of a web page to describe it in search results.
Your web page's meta description is:
With its home campus in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Webster University comprises an action-oriented global network who forge powerful bonds with each other and with their communities. Webster is a private non-profit university with campus locations in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Webster University is one of the top universities in St. Louis and offers traditional college education and online degree programs to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctorate in education or certificate program. Students experience an educational learning experience while pursuing their undergraduate and/or graduate degree.
Good This web page has a meta description.
Warning Best practices say your meta description should be between 150 and 160 characters in length. Yours is 667.

Headings

Headings, such as H1, H2, H3, etc, are important sentences or phrases on a web page that quickly and clearly tells people and search engines what they can expect to find there.
Problem This web page has no H1 heading tag. You should have one.

WEBSTER.EDU in search results

You can see below how Google and most other search engines will display this site's home page in search results. The title is used as the link to the page, and the meta description usually appears below the title.

St. Louis | Webster University

webster.edu/

With its home campus in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Webster University comprises an action-oriented global network who forge powerful bonds with each ot...

Sites You Link To

Outbound links tell search engines which websites you find valuable and relevant to your own site, and help your visitors find what they need; even if it's not on your site.
SiteNumber of links
news.webster.edu4
www.websterathletics.com2
twitter.com2
webster.edu17
www.youtube.com4
grad.webster.edu14
websterglimpse.com1
events.webster.edu3
instagram.com1
library.webster.edu1
www.facebook.com1
www.instagram.com1
plus.google.com1
www.linkedin.com1
connections.webster.edu1
a.cms.omniupdate.com1

Image Descriptions

Image descriptions, also called "alt text", are the best way to describe images to search engines and to visitors using screen readers.
Warning Some of the images don't have descriptions.

Robots

Your website's robots.txt file can tell search engines to ignore parts of your site.
Bot NameDescriptionResult
googlebotCrawler for the Google.com search engine. Allowed
bingbotCrawler for the Bing.com and Yahoo.com search engines. Allowed
baiduspiderCrawler for Baidu.com, the leading Chinese search engine. Allowed
yandexCrawler for Yandex.com, the leading search engine in Russia. Allowed
yandexbotCrawler for Yandex.com, the leading search engine in Russia. Allowed
sosospiderCrawler for Soso.com, a major Chinese search engine. Allowed
exabotCrawler for ExaLead, a major search engine in France. Allowed
sogou spiderCrawler for Sogou.com, a major search engine in China. Allowed

Canonical Url

This website can live at www.webster.edu or webster.edu. It's best for your site's visibility to live at just one URL, or web address. You'll want to create a 301 redirect to the URL you choose from the other URL.
Good Your canonical URL is www.webster.edu.