Site Report

This tab shows search engine guideline violations, and pages that don't follow search optimization best practices.

Status	Summary
	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.
	Search Best Practices - Some pages could rank higher in search engines.

Priority	Description and URL	Guideline and Line#	Count
Priority 1 6 issues on 3 pages
	Google and Bing recommend using an XML sitemap to increase coverage of your web pages by search engines.	Google Bing	1 pages
	Once you've created and uploaded your sitemap, add the location to your robots.txt file, and make sure you use a full URL (e.g. use `http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml` and not `www.example.com/sitemap.xml` or `/sitemap.xml`).
	Sitemap not found at https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/sitemap.xml. https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/sitemap.xml	Line 1
	Google, Bing and Yahoo recommend that all pages have a non-blank title element.	Google Yahoo Bing	1 pages
	https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/Agenda/OnlineBookings/Signup.aspx	Line 69
	Google, Bing and Yahoo recommend that all pages have a title element.	Google Yahoo Bing	1 pages
	https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/	Line 1
	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	1 pages
	https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/Agenda/OnlineBookings/Signup.aspx	Line 1
	Text presented in graphics form only cannot be searched.	Google Bing	1 pages
	https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/	Line 0
	This page has no h1 element, which violates Bing webmaster guidelines.	Bing	1 pages
	Add an h1 element just before the main content describing the page.
	https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/	Line 0
Priority 2 1 issues on 1 pages
	This page has more than one title element. Only the first title is displayed in search results.	Best Practice	1 pages
	https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/Agenda/OnlineBookings/Signup.aspx	Line 10 69
Priority 3 2 issues on 2 pages
	Meta description tag is too long for Bing. Bing recommends keeping the description text under 160 characters in length.	Bing	1 pages
	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 166.00 characters long. https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/Agenda/OnlineBookings/Signup.aspx	Line 20
	No meta description tag found. Use a description tag that accurately describes the contents of a web page.	Yahoo Google Bing	1 pages
	A well-written meta description attracts more clicks in search results than an irrelevant or missing description.
	https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/	Line 1
Informative These messages are for information only and do not indicate errors
	No search keywords are set in SortSite, so no keyword optimization rules have been run.	Best Practice	1 pages
	If you want to check keyword optimization, set the keywords using the Scan Options command.
	https://births-marriage-deaths.liverpool.gov.uk/Agenda/OnlineBookings/Signup.aspx	Line 1
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