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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
92
GRADE
A
FIX
1
REVIEW
1
PASS
4
INFO
1

Cross-tab audit — SEO, performance, crawlability, mobile, structured data

Checks
7
4 PASS 1 REVIEW 1 FIX
D
Schema Markup Audit
Action
1 schema types detected
FIX

Rich result eligibility

WebSite Not eligible

Sitelinks search box

Missing: name

Detected schema types

WebSite json-ld → Sitelinks search box
1/2 required · 1/1 recommended
Required fields (Google)
  • name — Add the site name Required for the sitelinks search box
  • url — Required to anchor the search box to your domain
Recommended fields
  • potentialAction — Enables the in-SERP search box
Google's spec for this type

Missing schema opportunities

  • easy

    Article

    Page reads as an article (long body + headline) — add Article schema

    Eligible for top-stories carousel and Discover

Your WebSite structured data is missing required fields for Google's Sitelinks search box. Without these, the page won't qualify for rich results.

Why this matters

Schema entity missing required properties — Google's rich-result eligibility check fails; the schema is in source but never renders enhanced.

Source: Google Search Central

A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://mg.co.za/
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Info::
Canonical target returns 200
Canonical URL Configured
Page URL https://mg.co.za Canonical https://mg.co.za/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A
Meta Tags
Title: 6 chars
PASS
Title: 6 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: buscar
Warning::
Title is only 6 characters — consider expanding
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title

"buscar"

6 characters Too short
Title: buscar
H1: Tolashe faces second wave of criminal complaints as DA enters SUV probe
Match: Very different
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)

Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.

Why this matters

Title and H1 disagree significantly — Google may treat one as the canonical topic and the other as off-topic, weakening ranking.

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Title is the SERP headline; H1 is the on-page headline. They should describe the same page. Large divergence (different topics, different keywords) signals confusion and Google may rewrite the title in SERP. Align both to the same primary topic.

Source: Google Search Central / on-page SEO

A+
Content Depth
2782 words, Very Difficult
PASS
2782 words, Very Difficult
Info::
Page has 2782 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Reading level: Very Difficult (grade 20)
2782 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 20

Text-to-HTML Ratio

7% text 93% HTML

18 KB / 261 KB

A+
Image SEO
55 images, 52 descriptive filenames
PASS
55 images, 52 descriptive filenames
Info::
3 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
52 descriptive
2 hash-based
1 generic
55 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
df9ea59e-2015-11-04-no-load-shedding-until-may-says-eskom-head-image-300x169.jpghash✓1
df9ea59e-2015-11-04-no-load-shedding-until-may-says-eskom-head-image-300x169.jpghash✓1
24C0076_011-1-400x267.jpggeneric✓1

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

Hreflang
0 hreflang tags
INFO
0 hreflang tags

No hreflang tags detected.

Hreflang tags are only needed for multilingual or multi-regional sites.

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