hku.hk

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.

Every visit is encrypted, and the headers that keep it that way are in place.

Pages load reasonably but not quickly, so visitors wait longer than they need to.

Images are described in text, and pages link to each other with links that say where they go.

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

The page language is declared and matches what is on the page.

Pages are thin: there is little text for a search engine to judge them on, and what is there does not always match the title.

Titles are mostly in place; descriptions and link previews are patchier, and each page wants ones of its own.

Pages carry structured data of the kinds engines use, filled in properly, and the site says its own name in it.

Interior pages show where they sit in the site, and say so in a way engines can read.

No page poses a question and answers it directly beneath, which is the shape answer engines look for; adding those pages is where this starts.

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

AI crawlers are allowed in, and pages may be quoted in AI answers.

Much of the content only appears once scripts run, so a crawler that reads the raw page finds little.

Who is behind the site is partly clear; an About page, a Contact page, and markup naming the organization would let machines say so with confidence.

No article names an author or a date, and nothing links out to a source; a byline and a date on every article is the place to start.

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 registers a small audience; it is not yet a widely visited one.