Hi, my name is Andrew Halliday. In this short video, I’ll be showing you how to add a robots.txt file using cPanel. This is especially useful for anyone with a WordPress site, but it applies to any type of site you’re managing. If you have 2 minutes and access to cPanel, you can add a […]
With all the recent hacks and data breaches of high profile sites, TalkTalk, Ashley Madison, Carphone Warehouse for example, we decided to take a look at how easy it would be to make a few changes to your wordpress sites. Firstly, the security of your site is important to your SEO efforts. I am speaking
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You’ll hear me say this a lot. Yes. Having great content is amazing. It helps earn you links, which is important, but I’m currently learning just how important those links are. One of the sites I manage has virtually zero links compared to its competitors. So, I get that it’s important. However, without great foundations,
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As the original post was over 2 years old, I thought it was time to update this article as so much has changed in the meantime. You will now see the latest info on both the products Which is best? Deep Crawl or Screaming Frog? I’ve used both pieces of software and I love them both,
If you need to get a developer to get you the server log data, you need to make sure they are getting you the following bits of information: Host: Date: Page/Title: Bandwidth: Response Codes: Referral: User Agent: This is the bare minimum needed to do any type of log Analysis. An example of what the
So you have got your data from the cpanel or the devs and now you want to start using this data. There are two key formula’s which are going to help you a lot. The first one is: Page Directory. Is the page in a directory (if so which one) or is a non directory
Ticking one box means you can do great Server Log Analysis By ticking one box in the cpanel it means you can do great server log analysis rather than good log analysis. Simply follow the instructions on the below video. What does the box actually do. As standard server log data is only kept for
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When you get a raw server log file out of cpanel, the format is unreadable. So you need to convert it, there is plenty of software to chose from, but my personal favourite is Web log Explorer. In this short video I will show you how to convert those files into CSV so you can
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So I am often asked, what software and Tools do I use, so I though I would mention all the software I pay for and use. Firstly I would like to clarify that the software I use meets my needs and everyone has their own tools to meet their own needs. The tools I use:
We have done some in depth research to try and find the best place to hide a dead body. Here on page 2 of Google. Sorry this is an SEO joke, as no body ever looks on page 2 of Google and this is why digital marketers and SEO specialists always want to rank
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