Back when I spoke at BrightonSEO I said after my talk when a question was asked, can you see if your site was affected by looking in the server logs. My answer at the time was the two sites I had data at that time that I had analysed had seen a spike in Googlebot …
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Google did a rare thing last year and pre announced a update and gave specific instructions on what it was targeting. This update was known within the Industry as the PageSpeed update. They gave the industry about 6 months notice to update their sites ready and most did. https://youtu.be/cGsodHYDF34 Video In this video I will …
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Doing technical Audits is important and allows you to find errors on your site which could be holding back its potential. However if your just using Screaming Frog your just doing great audits, if you want to take them to the next level and really find issues you need to connect different data points. In …
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In this video I am going to cover off the basics off how to connect the two data sources together, then a few of the advance changes you can make to get the data which matters to you and then finally I will explain why this is a must and should be something you should …
At a recent Google IO talk, there were some key topics which came up which I found were useful and wanted to share. The videos are below. The key things is Google bot is using the latest version of Chrome for Rendering it was on Chrome 41 over 3 years old, which is great news …
Ever been like me and wanting to bulk analyse page speeds for websites, but hated the fact its quite a manual task. Well, I’ve got good news – Ive just come across this great tool which will allow you to bulk check up to 500 urls for Google page speed metrics and then export them …
Technical Audits – while they can get completed, here are a few quick checks which can be done in less than 5 minutes. https://youtu.be/p80MwDZpFJI As you can see from the video. These checks can be done in less 5 minutes. We would highly recommend you doing the checks on your own websites and fixing an …
So SEMRush Crawling tool is taking on Screaming Frog Crawling tool to determine which tool is the best for crawling your website to find technical issues. While Screaming Frog is from Britain, a small town in Oxford, SEMRush is a more global operation. There is Head Office is based in Boston in the United States, …
SEMRush is a tool which you can use to crawl your website to analyse to find technical issues with what’s wrong on the website. SEMRush Crawler Also, SEMRush offers a domain metric called “Authority Score” which analyses a websites backlinks. Its measured using, page score, domain score, trust score as well as some other data …
This is something that I have dealt with numerous times and can be hard for certain organisations to set up. Getting log data when using Cloudflare, by default the logs just show the IP etc as Cloudflare meaning it can be difficult to get the data to analyse. Also you need to be on an …