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 - No issues found.

Priority	Description and URL	Guideline and Line#	Count
Priority 1 2 issues on 5 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 http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/sitemap.xml. http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/sitemap.xml	Line 1
	This page has more than one h1 element, which violates Bing webmaster guidelines.	Bing	4 pages
	Leave the title of the main content as h1 and change other h1 elements to a lower heading level.
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/	Line 80 91 108 572
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/GeneralSearch.aspx	Line 85 97 104 274
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/NewApplicationsSearch.aspx	Line 83 95 100
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/RecentDecisionsSearch.aspx	Line 84 96 101
Priority 2 1 issues on 2 pages
	This page title is not unique. Assign unique, descriptive title elements to every page.	Google Bing	2 pages
	'Planning Application Search' is also used on http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/ http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/ApplicationSearch.aspx	Line 5
	'Planning Application Search' is also used on http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/ http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/GeneralSearch.aspx	Line 5
Priority 3 2 issues on 5 pages
	No meta description tag found. Use a description tag that accurately describes the contents of a web page.	Yahoo Google Bing	5 pages
	A well-written meta description attracts more clicks in search results than an irrelevant or missing description.
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/	Line 1
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/ApplicationSearch.aspx	Line 1
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/GeneralSearch.aspx	Line 1
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/NewApplicationsSearch.aspx	Line 1
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/RecentDecisionsSearch.aspx	Line 1
	Search engines may penalize invisible text where text color is nearly identical to the background color.	Google Yahoo Bing	1 pages
	The colors used are: color: rgb(255,255,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(255,255,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(255,255,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(255,255,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(255,255,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/	Line 833 836 839 842 845 ...
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.
	http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/PlanningExplorer17/	Line 1
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