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SEO Meta Tag Scanner

Checks your page's title, meta description and canonical tag to improve search ranking.

What it checks

This scanner reviews your page's key meta tags: the title, the meta description and the canonical tag. It checks that they exist and are properly defined, since they are the first thing a search engine reads about your content.

Why it matters

The title and description are what appear in Google's results and largely determine whether someone clicks on your site. The canonical tag prevents your ranking from being diluted by duplicate content, a very common problem.

How to fix it

Write a unique, descriptive title for each page and an appealing one- or two-sentence description that invites the click. Add a canonical tag pointing to the definitive version of the URL to make clear which is the primary page.

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