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For the SEO Spider

Site Architecture & Crawl Visualisations Guide

Visualise site architecture and internal linking to help communicate ideas and reveal underlying patterns that are harder to uncover in data, and spreadsheets.

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How To Crawl JavaScript Websites

Render web pages using the integrated Chromium WRS to crawl dynamic, JavaScript rich websites and frameworks, such as Angular, React and Vue.js.

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How To Crawl A Staging Website

Find out how to crawl a staging or development website, considering robots.txt, authentication, and the SEO Spider configuration.

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How To Automate Crawl Reports In Looker Studio

Learn how to set-up fully automated Google Looker Studio crawl reports to monitor site health, detect issues, & track performance.

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How To Audit Core Web Vitals

Analyse which pages pass or fail Google's Core Web Vitals assessment using field data from CrUX to improve page speed.

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How to Crawl with ChatGPT

Open up a world of possibilities by communicating with OpenAI’s ChatGPT during a crawl.

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How To Perform A Web Accessibility Audit

Learn how to run an automated accessibility audit of a site using the integrated AXE engine for automated accessibility validation.

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How To Test & Validate Structured Data

Audit and validate structured data against Schema.org specifications, and Google’s search feature requirements to enable special search result features.

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How To Find Missing Image Alt Text & Attributes

Find pages that are missing image alt text and alt attributes, preview the images and bulk export the source pages and images to be corrected.

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Web Scraping & Custom Extraction

Scrape any data from the HTML of a page using CSS Path, XPath and regex to enhance a crawl, such as author name, comments, shares or more.

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How To Audit Redirects In A Site Migration Using The SEO Spider

Learn how to crawl a list of URLs, follow redirect chains, identify the final target & identify errors & non-indexable pages.

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How To Audit Canonicals

A step-by-step tutorial on how to audit canonical link elements found in the HTML and HTTP Headers for common errors and issues.

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How To Audit Mobile Usability

Mobile now accounts for over 60% of worldwide traffic, making mobile usability more important than ever for delivering an inclusive experience to all users

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How To Audit & Validate Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

This tutorial walks you through how to audit Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). The SEO Spider uses the official AMP validator to allow bulk URL validation.

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How To Audit rel="next" and rel="prev" Pagination Attributes

While Google no longer use rel=”next” and rel=”prev” pagination attributes, Bing use them as a hint. Learn how to audit your pagination set-up.

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How To Audit XML Sitemaps

XML Sitemaps should be up to date, error free, and include indexable, canonical URLs only. Learn how to audit them for common issues.

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How To Bulk Check Redirects

Check redirects by crawling your site, or by uploading a list of URLs in bulk. Discover if they are 301s or 302s, loops and chains.

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How To Find Orphan Pages

Connect to Google Analytics and Search Console, integrate XML Sitemaps and discover orphan pages, that are not linked to internally from the website.

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Robots.txt Testing In The SEO Spider

View URLs blocked by robots.txt, the disallow lines & use the custom robots.txt to check & validate a site's robots.txt thoroughly, and at scale.

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XML Sitemap Generator

Learn how to generate an XML Sitemap (and image sitemap), including the URLs, last modified, priority and change frequency you want.

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