Website review thedakotascout.com
The Dakota Scout | Substack
Generated on April 15 2026 11:09 AM
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The score is 54/100
SEO Content
Title
The Dakota Scout | Substack
Length : 27
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Description
South Dakota’s leading alternative, independent and locally owned newspaper focusing on culture and politics in the Mount Rushmore State. Follow us on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Click to read The Dakota Scout, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Length : 302
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Keywords
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Og Meta Properties
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| image | https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7D39!,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fthedakotascout.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D-61234561%26version%3D9 |
| type | article |
| title | The Dakota Scout | Substack |
| description | South Dakota’s leading alternative, independent and locally owned newspaper focusing on culture and politics in the Mount Rushmore State. Follow us on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Click to read The Dakota Scout, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. |
| url | https://www.thedakotascout.com/ |
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- [H1]
- [H3] State Politics
- [H3] Sioux Falls
- [H3] Viewpoints
- [H3] The Lounge
Images
We found 29 images on this web page.
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Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 2%
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Flash
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Iframe
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SEO Links
URL Rewrite
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Underscores in the URLs
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In-page links
We found a total of 30 links including 0 link(s) to files
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
sneve scout school south state ago hrs falls sioux dakota
Keywords Consistency
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Usability
Url
Domain : thedakotascout.com
Length : 18
Favicon
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Printability
We could not find a Print-Friendly CSS.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Dublin Core
This page does not take advantage of Dublin Core.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Perfect. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
W3C Validity
Errors : 0
Warnings : 0
Email Privacy
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Deprecated HTML
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Speed Tips
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Mobile
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Optimization
XML Sitemap
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| https://www.thedakotascout.com/sitemap.xml |
| https://www.thedakotascout.com/news_sitemap.xml |
Robots.txt
https://thedakotascout.com/robots.txt
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Analytics
Missing
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PageSpeed Insights
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