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Search Engine Optimization

Title Tag

SowetanLIVE
Length: 11 character(s)

Ideally, your title tag should contain between 10 and 70 characters (spaces included).
Make sure your title is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
Be sure that each page has a unique title.

Meta Description

My News My Community - Sowetan LIVE.
Length: 36 character(s)

Meta descriptions contains between 100 and 300 characters (spaces included).
It allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results.
Ensure that all of your web pages have a unique meta description that is explicit and contains your most important keywords (these appear in bold when they match part or all of the user's search query).
A good meta description acts as an organic advertisement, so use enticing messaging with a clear call to action to maximize click-through rate.

Meta Keywords

SowetanLIVE

Meta Keywords are a specific type of meta tag that appear in the HTML code of a Web page and help tell search engines what the topic of the page is.
However, google can't use meta keywords.

Headings

<H1>	<H2>	<H3>	<H4>	<H5>	<H6>
1	53	11	0	0	0

<H1> SowetanLIVE </H1>
<H2> Classes dismissed after teacher collapses, dies at Gauteng school </H2>
<H2> KZN education MEC intervenes after police clash with pupils over Covid-19 testing </H2>
<H2> 'Only Grade R, 6 and 11 will return to school on Monday', says Education dept </H2>
<H2> Santaco, Mbalula agree to work together to find solutions for taxi industry </H2>
<H2> Durban company hit with R25,000 fine after locking up workers and forcing ... </H2>
<H2> Male pupil, 17, 'raped and forced to bath in stream at gunpoint' </H2>
<H2> Gandhi institute reeling from theft of 29 computers </H2>
<H2> Doctor fears for his life as pandemic heads towards its peak in Gauteng </H2>
<H2> Tips to get the best insurance for your budget </H2>
<H2> Somizi Mhlongo's case regarding lockdown 'joke' about Fikile Mbalula is ... </H2>
<H2> Moonchild Sanelly can't wait to take a sho't left </H2>
<H2> WIN \| Watch the Stormers at Newlands & you could win a Weber braai or ... </H2>
<H2> Celebs spill the beans on their TV cooking shows after backlash </H2>
<H2> Durban cops arrested for theft of cigarettes and corruption granted bail </H2>
<H2> Old Mutual appoints Iain Williamson as new CEO </H2>
<H2> Dagga activist Julian Stobbs fatally shot in armed robbery </H2>
<H2> 'We have criminalised being poor': DA's Mbali Ntuli on Khayelitsha ... </H2>
<H2> SAA staff ask for voluntary severance packages </H2>
<H2> Coronavirus stigma worries Limpopo health MEC Ramathuba </H2>
<H2> Morgan Mammila upbeat as he returns to Chippa Morgan Mammila upbeat as he returns to Chippa </H2>
<H2> Lockdown rules poses challenge for widows' ritual Lockdown rules poses challenge for widows' ritual </H2>
<H2> Wits University FC could make a sensational comeback Wits University FC could make a sensational comeback </H2>
<H2> Sho Madjozi's star reaches Epic levels </H2>
<H2> Shoeless boy grows into sneaker boss </H2>
<H2> Naked Khayelitsha man feels stripped of dignity </H2>
<H2> Coronavirus stigma worries Limpopo health MEC Ramathuba </H2>
<H2> title-chasing Kaizer Chiefs will 'have fans in their hearts' in empty stadiums </H2>
<H2> Pitso Mosimane: 'Someone had to step in and deal with the monotony of Chiefs and Pirates' </H2>
<H2> Sports minister assembles experts to monitor sports’ return to training </H2>
<H2> Boxing legend Duran leaves hospital after Covid-19 scare </H2>
<H2> Somizi Mhlongo's case regarding lockdown 'joke' about Fikile Mbalula is postponed </H2>
<H2> Moonchild Sanelly can't wait to take a sho't left </H2>
<H2> Somizi, Chef Nti and LesDaChef spill the beans on their TV cooking shows after backlash </H2>
<H2> Gospel star Ntokozo Mbambo mourns mom's death: 'This makes no sense' </H2>
<H2> KWANELE NDLOVU \| What's with this mourning hard to score a funeral to die for? </H2>
<H2> NOMUMELELO RUNJI \| Solidarity means recognising equal value of everyone </H2>
<H2> MALAIKA MAHLATSI \| Reality that Covid-19 is here has hit home hard </H2>
<H2> MBUYISELO BOTHA \| Rapists, abusers roam streets freely while victims live with trauma </H2>
<H2> Youth can help defend SA from the coronavirus </H2>
<H2> WATCH \| How It’s time to reconsider the humble hadeda </H2>
<H2> Funding adds hope to coffee shop </H2>
<H2> Know more to do more: SebenzaLIVE helps SA’s youth find work </H2>
<H2> LISTEN \| How young people hustle to change their lives </H2>
<H2> Are virtual weddings the way forward? </H2>
<H2> Moonchild Sanelly can't wait to take a sho't left </H2>
<H2> Celebs spill the beans on their TV cooking shows after backlash </H2>
<H2> WATCH \| A discussion with primary and high school education professionals </H2>
<H2> UNITED APART \| Watch SA's winning lockdown video & other highlights </H2>
<H2> Put your money where your mouth is on changing the world </H2>
<H2> Old Mutual appoints Iain Williamson as new CEO </H2>
<H2> Know when your policy can be cancelled </H2>
<H2> Shoeless boy grows into sneaker boss </H2>
<H2> MultiChoice and the YES initiative give back to the givers </H2>
<H3> Classifieds </H3>
<H3> Pic Of The Day </H3>
<H3> Hot Topics </H3>
<H3> Sport </H3>
<H3> Entertainment </H3>
<H3> Trending </H3>
<H3> Videos </H3>
<H3> Western Cape field hospitals 'have Covid-19 covered ... for now': Mbombo </H3>
<H3> Western Cape field hospitals 'have Covid-19 covered ... for now': Mbombo </H3>
<H3> How Liverpool’s African players helped the team win the Premier League </H3>
<H3> First 8 South Africans receive 'historic' Covid-19 trial vaccine </H3>

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Use your keywords in the headings and make sure the first level (H1) includes your most important keywords. Never duplicate your title tag content in your header tag.
While it is important to ensure every page has an H1 tag, never include more than one per page. Instead, use multiple H2 - H6 tags.

Google Preview

SowetanLIVE

sowetanlive.co.za/

My News My Community - Sowetan LIVE.

This is an example of what your Title Tag and Meta Description will look like in Google search results.
While Title Tags & Meta Descriptions are used to build the search result listings, the search engines may create their own if they are missing, not well written, or not relevant to the content on the page.
Title Tags and Meta Descriptions are cut short if they are too long, so it's important to stay within the suggested character limits.

Alt Attribute

We found 0 images on this web page

No ALT attributes are empty or missing.

Alternative text is used to describe images to give the search engine crawlers (and the visually impaired).
Also, more information to help them understand images, which can help them to appear in Google Images search results.

Keywords Cloud

south14
more9
after8
business7
entertainment7
lockdown6
life5
could5
make4
watch4
find4
sensational4
sport4
coronavirus4
wits4

This Keyword Cloud provides an insight into the frequency of keyword usage within the page.
It's important to carry out keyword research to get an understanding of the keywords that your audience is using. There are a number of keyword research tools available online to help you choose which keywords to target.

Keyword Consistency

Keywords	Freq	Title	Desc	<H>
south	14
more	9
after	8
business	7
entertainment	7
lockdown	6
life	5
could	5
make	4
watch	4
find	4
sensational	4
sport	4
coronavirus	4
wits	4

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This table highlights the importance of being consistent with your use of keywords.
To improve the chance of ranking well in search results for a specific keyword, make sure you include it in some or all of the following: page URL, page content, title tag, meta description, header tags, image alt attributes, internal link anchor text and backlink anchor text.

Text/HTML Ratio

HTML to Text Ratio is: 1.02%

Text content size	6637 bytes
Total HTML size	652659 bytes

Code to text ratio represents the percentage of actual text on a web page compared to the percentage of HTML code, and it is used by search engines to calculate the relevancy of a web page.
A higher code to text ratio will increase your chances of getting a better rank in search engine results.

GZIP compression

Wow! It's GZIP Enabled.

Your webpage is compressed from 637 KB to 180 KB (71.7 % size savings)

Gzip is a method of compressing files (making them smaller) for faster network transfers.
It allows to reduce the size of web pages and any other typical web files to about 30% or less of its original size before it transfer.

WWW Resolve

Warning, no 301 redirects are in place to redirect traffic to your preferred domain. Pages that load successfully both with and without www. are treated as duplicate content!

Redirecting requests from a non-preferred domain is important because search engines consider URLs with and without "www" as two different websites.

IP Canonicalization

No your domain IP 216.239.36.21 does not redirect to sowetanlive.co.za

To check this for your website, enter your IP address in the browser and see if your site loads with the IP address.
Ideally, the IP should redirect to your website's URL or to a page from your website hosting provider.
If it does not redirect, you should do an htaccess 301 redirect to make sure the IP does not get indexed.

XML Sitemap

Good, you have XML Sitemap file!
http://sowetanlive.co.za/sitemap.xml

A sitemap lists URLs that are available for crawling and can include additional information like your site's latest updates, frequency of changes and importance of the URLs. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.
We recommend that you generate an XML sitemap for your website and submit it to both Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. It is also good practice to specify your sitemap's location in your robots.txt file.

Robots.txt

Good, you have Robots.txt file!
http://sowetanlive.co.za/robots.txt

A robots.txt file allows you to restrict the access of search engine robots that crawl the web and it can prevent these robots from accessing specific directories and pages. It also specifies where the XML sitemap file is located.
You can check for errors in your robots.txt file using Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) by selecting 'Robots.txt Tester' under 'Crawl'. This also allows you to test individual pages to make sure that Googlebot has the appropriate access.

URL Rewrite

Good, all URLs look clean and friendly

Your site's URLs contain unnecessary elements that make them look complicated.
A URL must be easy to read and remember for users. Search engines need URLs to be clean and include your page's most important keywords.
Clean URLs are also useful when shared on social media as they explain the page's content.

Underscores in the URLs

Great, you are not using underscores (these_are_underscores) in your URLs

Great, you are not using ?underscores (these_are_underscores) in your URLs.
While Google treats hyphens as word separators, it does not for underscores.

Embedded Objects

Perfect, no embedded objects has been detected on this page

Embedded Objects such as Flash. It should only be used for specific enhancements.
Although Flash content often looks nicer, it cannot be properly indexed by search engines.
Avoid full Flash websites to maximize SEO.

Iframe

Perfect, no Iframe content has been detected on this page

Frames can cause problems on your web page because search engines will not crawl or index the content within them.
Avoid frames whenever possible and use a NoFrames tag if you must use them.

Domain Registration

Exactly how many years and months

Domain Age: 11 Years, 255 Days

Created Date: 22nd-Oct-2008

Updated Date: 2nd-Jul-2020

Expiry Date: 22nd-Oct-2020

Domain age matters to a certain extent and newer domains generally struggle to get indexed and rank high in search results for their first few months (depending on other associated ranking factors). Consider buying a second-hand domain name.
Do you know that you can register your domain for up to 10 years? By doing so, you will show the world that you are serious about your business.

WHOIS Data

WhoIs domain information can help you determine the proper administrator, billing and technical
contact information.

Domain Name: sowetanlive.co.za
Registry Domain ID: DOM_1ZYW0-CO.ZA
Registrar WHOIS Server:
Registrar URL: http://lexsynergy.com
Updated Date: 2020-07-02T07:39:13Z
Creation Date: 2008-10-22T06:54:53Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-10-22T06:54:53Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-10-22T06:54:53Z
Registrar: Lexsynergy Limited
Registrar IANA ID: 1466
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +44.2081331319
Reseller:
Domain Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
Registry Registrant ID: REDACTED
Registrant Name: REDACTED
Registrant Organization: Tiso Blackstar Group (Pty) Ltd
Registrant Street: REDACTED
Registrant City: REDACTED
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code: REDACTED
Registrant Country: ZA
Registrant Phone: REDACTED
Registrant Phone Ext: REDACTED
Registrant Fax: REDACTED
Registrant Fax Ext: REDACTED
Registrant Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin or Tech contacts of the domain name.
Registry Admin ID: REDACTED
Admin Name: REDACTED
Admin Organization: REDACTED
Admin Street: REDACTED
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Admin Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin or Tech contacts of the domain name.
Registry Tech ID: REDACTED
Tech Name: REDACTED
Tech Organization: REDACTED
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Tech State/Province: REDACTED
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Tech Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin or Tech contacts of the domain name.
Registry Billing ID: REDACTED
Billing Name: REDACTED
Billing Organization: REDACTED
Billing Street: REDACTED
Billing City: REDACTED
Billing State/Province: REDACTED
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Billing Fax: REDACTED
Billing Fax Ext: REDACTED
Billing Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin or Tech contacts of the domain name.
Name Server: ns2.sowetanlive.co.za
Name Server: ns3.sowetanlive.co.za
Name Server: ns4.sowetanlive.co.za
DNSSEC: unsigned
ZACR Complaint/s Procedure and Form: https://registry.net.za/content.php?gen=1&contentid=226
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2020-07-04T06:35:37Z <<<

For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp


#
# The use of this Whois facility is subject to the following terms and
# conditions. https://registry.net.za/whois_terms
# Copyright (c) ZACR 1995-2020

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WhoIs domain information can help you determine the proper contact for any domain listed in the Whois database.
A WhoIs lookup identifies the administrator contact information, billing contact and the technical contact for each domain name listing or IP in the WhoIs database.

Indexed Pages

Indexed pages in search engines

39 Page(s)

This is the number of pages that we have discovered on your website.
A low number can indicate that bots are unable to discover your webpages, which is a common cause of a bad site architecture & internal linking, or you're unknowingly preventing bots and search engines from crawling & indexing your pages.

Backlinks Counter

Number of backlinks to your website

809 Backlink(s)

Backlinks are links that point to your website from other websites. They are like letters of recommendation for your site.
Since this factor is crucial to SEO, you should have a strategy to improve the quantity and quality of backlinks.

Usability

URL

http://sowetanlive.co.za
Length: 11 characters

Keep your URLs short and avoid long domain names when possible.
A descriptive URL is better recognized by search engines.
A user should be able to look at the address bar and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before reaching it (e.g., http://www.mysite.com/en/products).

Favicon

Great, your website has a favicon.

Favicons improve a brand's visibility.
As a favicon is especially important for users bookmarking your website, make sure it is consistent with your brand.

Custom 404 Page

Great, your website has a custom 404 error page.

When a visitor encounters a 404 File Not Found error on your site, you're on the verge of losing the visitor that you've worked so hard to obtain through the search engines and third party links.
Creating your custom 404 error page allows you to minimize the number of visitors lost that way.

Page Size

637 KB (World Wide Web average is 320 Kb)

Two of the main reasons for an increase in page size are images and JavaScript files.
Page size affects the speed of your website; try to keep your page size below 2 Mb.
Tip: Use images with a small size and optimize their download with gzip.

Load Time

6.3 second(s)

Site speed is an important factor for ranking high in Google search results and enriching the user experience.
Resources: Check out Google's developer tutorials for tips on how to to make your website run faster.

PageSpeed Insights (Desktop)

31 / 100

Page Speed

Sowetanlive.co.za desktop website speed is slow. Page speed is important for both search engines and visitors end.

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Language

Good, you have declared your language
Declared Language: EN-ZA

Make sure your declared language is the same as the language detected by Google
Also, define the language of the content in each page's HTML code.

Domain Availability

Domains (TLD)	Status
sowetanlive.com	Already Registered
sowetanlive.net	Available
sowetanlive.org	Available
sowetanlive.biz	Already Registered
sowetanlive.us	Available

Typo Availability

Domains (TLD)	Status
qowetanlive.za	Query Failed
wowetanlive.za	Query Failed
eowetanlive.za	Query Failed
zowetanlive.za	Query Failed
xowetanlive.za	Query Failed

Email Privacy

Good, no email address has been found in plain text.

We don't recommend adding plain text/linked email addresses to your webpages.
As malicious bots scrape the web in search of email addresses to spam. Instead, consider using a contact form.

Safe Browsing

The website is not blacklisted and looks safe to use.

Safe Browsing to identify unsafe websites and notify users and webmasters so they can protect themselves from harm.

Mobile

Mobile Friendliness

Awesome! This page is mobile-friendly!
Your mobile friendly score is 80/100

Mobile Friendliness refers to the usability aspects of your mobile website, which Google uses as a ranking signal in mobile search results.

Mobile View

The number of people using the Mobile Web is huge; over 75 percent of consumers have access to smartphones. ??
Your website should look nice on the most popular mobile devices.
Tip: Use an analytics tool to track mobile usage of your website.

Mobile Compatibility

Perfect, no embedded objects detected.

Embedded Objects such as Flash, Silverlight or Java. It should only be used for specific enhancements.
But avoid using Embedded Objects, so your content can be accessed on all devices.

PageSpeed Insights (Mobile)

0 / 100

Page Speed

Sowetanlive.co.za mobile website speed is slow. Page speed is important for both search engines and visitors end.

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Technologies

Server IP

Server IP	Server Location	Service Provider
216.239.38.21	United States	Google

Your server's IP address has little impact on your SEO. Nevertheless, try to host your website on a server which is geographically close to your visitors.
Search engines take the geolocation of a server into account as well as the server speed.

Speed Tips

Tips for authoring fast-loading HTML pages:

Perfect, your website has few CSS files.

True

Perfect, your website has few JavaScript files.

True

Perfect, your website doesn't use nested tables.

False

Too bad, your website is using inline styles.

Website speed has a huge impact on performance, affecting user experience, conversion rates and even rankings.
???By reducing page load-times, users are less likely to get distracted and the search engines are more likely to reward you by ranking your pages higher in the SERPs.
Conversion rates are far higher for websites that load faster than their slower competitors.

Analytics

We didn't detect an analytics tool installed on this website.

Web analytics let you measure visitor activity on your website.
You should have at least one analytics tool installed, but It can also be good to install a second in order to cross-check the data.

W3C Validity

W3C not validated

W3Cis a consortium that sets web standards.
Using valid markup that contains no errors is important because syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index. Run the W3C validation service whenever changes are made to your website's code.

Doc Type

Your Web Page doctype is HTML 5

The Doctype is used to instruct web browsers about the document type being used.
For example, what version of HTML the page is written in.
Declaring a doctype helps web browsers to render content correctly.

Encoding

Great, language/character encoding is specified: UTF-8

Specifying language/character encoding can prevent problems with the rendering of special characters.

Visitors

Estimated Worth

$57,720 USD

Just a estimated worth of your website based on Alexa Rank.

Traffic Rank

38,269th most visited website in the World.

A low rank means that your website gets a lot of visitors.
Your Alexa Rank is a good estimate of the worldwide traffic to your website, although it is not 100 percent accurate.

Visitors Localization

Your website is popular on following countries:

Countries	Percent of Visitors
South Africa	75.8%
Nigeria	7.8%
United States	3.8%

We recommend that you book the domain names for the countries where your ??website is popular.
This will prevent potential competitors from registering these domains and taking advantage of your reputation in such countries.

Link Analysis

In-Page Links

We found a total of 0 links including both internal & external links of your site

Anchor	Type	Follow

While there's no exact limit to the number of links you should include on a page, best practice is to avoid exceeding 200 links.
Links pass value from one page to another, but the amount of value that can be passed is split between all of the links on a page. This means that adding unnecessary links will dilute the potential value attributed to your other links.
Using the Nofollow attribute prevents value from being passed to the linking page, but it's worth noting that these links are still taken into account when calculating the value that is passed through each link, so Nofollow links can also dilute pagerank.

Broken Links

No broken links were found on this web page

Broken links send users to non-existing web pages. They are bad for your site's usability, reputation and SEO. If you find broken links in the future, take the time to replace or remove each one.

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Search Engine Optimization

Title Tag

Meta Description

Meta Keywords

Headings

Google Preview

Alt Attribute

Keywords Cloud

Keyword Consistency

Text/HTML Ratio

GZIP compression

WWW Resolve

IP Canonicalization

XML Sitemap

Robots.txt

URL Rewrite

Underscores in the URLs

Embedded Objects

Iframe

Domain Registration

WHOIS Data

Indexed Pages

Backlinks Counter

Usability

URL

Favicon

Custom 404 Page

Page Size

Load Time

PageSpeed Insights (Desktop)

31 / 100

Page Speed

Language

Domain Availability

Typo Availability

Email Privacy

Safe Browsing

Mobile

Mobile Friendliness

Mobile View

Mobile Compatibility

PageSpeed Insights (Mobile)

0 / 100

Page Speed

Technologies

Server IP

Speed Tips

Analytics

W3C Validity

Doc Type

Encoding

Social

Social Data

Visitors

Estimated Worth

Traffic Rank

Visitors Localization

Link Analysis

In-Page Links

Broken Links

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