Homepage SEO Analysis for FINANCE.YAHOO.COM

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Domain Resolution

Your website resolves to the following IP addresses:
Doesn't resolve!

Title

The title of a web page appears in search results as the link to that page.
Your web page's title is:
Yahoo Finance - Business Finance, Stock Market, Quotes, News
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:
At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up to date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, message boards, and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life.
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 197.

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.

FINANCE.YAHOO.COM 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.

Yahoo Finance - Business Finance, Stock Market, Quotes, New...

finance.yahoo.com/

At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up to date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, message boards, and mortgage...

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
www.yahoo.com2
mail.yahoo.com2
news.yahoo.com5
sports.yahoo.com1
finance.yahoo.com6
weather.yahoo.com1
games.yahoo.com1
groups.yahoo.com1
answers.yahoo.com1
screen.yahoo.com1
www.flickr.com3
mobile.yahoo.com1
omg.yahoo.com3
shine.yahoo.com1
movies.yahoo.com1
music.yahoo.com1
tv.yahoo.com1
health.yahoo.com1
shopping.yahoo.com1
travel.yahoo.com1
autos.yahoo.com1
homes.yahoo.com1
login.yahoo.com4
edit.yahoo.com1
help.yahoo.com5
feedback.yahoo.com1
online.wsj.com1
smallbusiness.yahoo.com4
ads.yahoo.com6
info.yahoo.com5
www.cnbc.com2
www.nytimes.com1
video.cnbc.com2
www.forbes.com1
biz.yahoo.com8
www.facebook.com2
twitter.com2
yahoofinance.tumblr.com2
plus.google.com2
www.linkedin.com2
yahoo.uservoice.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.finance.yahoo.com or finance.yahoo.com. 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 finance.yahoo.com.