bostonglobe.com

Crawlers are welcome here: a sitemap points the way, links work, and pages are allowed into the index.

URLs are clean and consistent, each page has one address, and missing pages say so.

Nothing marks this site as unsafe to visit.

Pages load slowly, which costs visitors before it costs rankings.

The connection is encrypted but not fully hardened: steering every visit onto it and sending the standard security headers would finish the job.

Every page has a clear title and a description of its own, and shares well when linked.

Pages say enough to be useful, in plain language, and stay on the topic their titles promise.

Each page has one main heading, with subheadings in a sensible order beneath it.

Pages link to one another, though some images lack a description and some link text says "read more" rather than where it leads.

Few pages are shaped as questions and answers, so there is little for an answer engine to lift as a direct answer.

Pages read as unbroken prose: few lists or tables, and openings that take a while to get to the point.

Structured data is partly there: not on every page, not always complete, and not always the types that earn rich results.

It is clear who is behind this site, on its pages, in its markup, and in the public record.

The content is in the page itself, marked out from the navigation, and written in prose a machine can lift.

AI systems are partly allowed in: some crawlers are blocked, or pages limit how much of them may be quoted.

Some articles say who wrote them and when, and some pages cite sources; the rest should say so too.

Either a feed or sitemap dates are in place, not both; machines that watch for new content want both.

Plenty of other sites link here, including ones that matter.

The domain has a long history, and history counts.

The site links to its profiles on the major platforms.

The site has a real audience, though not yet a large one.